To the editor, Gee, it was nice of Kyle Shaw to pen his “Smoking mad” editorial last week defending The Coast’s practice of running tobacco ads. I’m sure he had nothing better to do with his time than explain what should have been obvious to anyone with an IQ over 40. The Coast exists because […]
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Lowe’s Christmas hangover
To Lezlie Lowe, My daughter sent me the clipping of “Holiday dispirit” (Feb. 26, Lowedown). I really don’t understand why people can’t take a few minutes to de-decorate, putting the rest of us out of our misery! There is money to be made for some enterprising person who would offer their removal services. Looking around […]
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Streetcar detractor
To the editor, I dislike commenting negatively on the ideas of Patrick Klassen, a graduate student at Dalhousie’s School of Planning, but if he really believes his vision of a new streetcar/tram system is what is needed for Halifax, as he stated in Chris Benjamin’s “Streetcar desires” (March 19, Upfront), then I suggest he needs […]
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Smoked out II
To the editor, I wanted to speak up about The Coast’s decision to advertise some tobacco products. I believe, as a free publication surviving on advertising dollars as its revenue stream, The Coast should be able to publish ads from whomever they like. Whatever pays the bills! Why do so many of you think you […]
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Smoked out I
To the editor, I echo the concerns raised in last week’s letters about tobacco ads in your paper. I meant to write in last summer when the full-page ads started appearing every week. I’ll bet they pay you guys really well. I’m familiar with tobacco companies’ mob-like status in advertising circles from what I learned […]
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Smoke ad mirrors
To the editor, I was amazed to see a full-page ad for duMaurier cigarettes in the recent edition of The Coast on March 12. There is a big, bold image of duMaurier’s product sitting in a prominent place in a publication geared to a wide audience, including teens. Surely this is in contravention of Canada’s […]
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Abandon all cash
To the editor, There should be a sign above the door leading into courtroom #2 in the courthouse on Spring Garden that reads “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” In this courtroom, cases on minor vehicle and lowly parking-ticket violations are heard. Have you contested a parking ticket recently? Here’s how it works. You […]
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Classical gets a pass
To the editor, You operate on the assumption that most of your readers are not interested in classical music and you’re probably right. Hence I don’t complain that you don’t review classical CDs regularly. And Sean Flinn did a great job on his story “Peter Allen’s brainstorm” (Sep. 25, 2008) about my friend Peter Allen’s […]
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Provincial insurance farce
To the editor, I enjoyed Bruce Wark’s “Auto correction” (Upfront column, Mar. 12), on auto insurance in this province. As consumers who purchase car insurance in this province know, especially in Halifax, there are no “real” resources to help you when there are major issues. The government did nothing for insurance buyers except let rates go up. There are […]
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Congrats on the Herald article
To the editor, Lawrence Martin wrote in the Globe and Mail (“To save journalism,” Mar. 19) that “Journalism got soft and corporate.” I emailed him and recommended he check out “Victims of the Herald” (Mar. 19) by Stephen Kimber in The Coast. I’ve had another look at the article. Now that’s what I call gutsy, […]
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Still smoking?
To the editor, I read Geoffrey Allen’s letter about your decision to print an advertisement for cigarettes. The reader expressed outrage at The Coast’s willingness to disregard Canadian law and moral responsibility and print a tobacco advertisement. I was further shocked to see the same full-page advertisement featured again in last week’s paper. As a […]
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Letters from the Herald‘s editor
Hi Stephen, I guess this is what happens when a person doesn’t make time for a sit-down interview with you, eh? I’ve attached a rundown of basic journalistic errors and omissions in your piece that appeared today in The Coast. I’d expect some of them from a first-year student, but from such an eminent professor, […]