To the editor, I must commend a performance much enjoyed by all in attendance: Hedwig and the Angry Inch quite literally ROCKED. (“Giving an angry inch,” Arts, July 23.) Rarely have I been so impressed with an actor as I was with Ian Mullan. His memory, timing, vocals! That’s an obscene amount of talent in […]
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NDP’s VLT flip-flop
Astonishing fact number one: Last year, gamblers in Nova Scotia pumped more than $708 million into Video Lottery Terminals, the equivalent of nearly $2 million a day. That info comes from the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation’s annual report released last week. It shows that in the 2008/2009 financial year which ended in March, VLT betting […]
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Park Commons shows elsewhere
To the editor, I want to add my concerns over the recent appropriation of the Commons on both the Dartmouth and Halifax sides of the harbour. I applaud the recent actions of Dartmouth High students and other community members for defending the Dartmouth Commons, which are again facing piecemeal diminishment. In Halifax, the KISS and […]
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Stumped on the Common
To the editor, After the McCartney and KISS concerts, there will be an all-summer effort to repair the damage to the Common just in time for winter. We have not been doing very well getting event damage repaired, have we? Witness the two- or three-time gap in the mature trees lining the north side of […]
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Tall Ships: shit’s gone too far
To the editor, I have appreciated The Coast’s perseverance in keeping city hall’s feet to the fire around its recent sewage debacle. Keep up the good work. However, last week The Coast included in your tall ships issue a map of the Halifax wharf (News, July 16), which pictured tall ship anchorages and their proximity […]
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Aboat that tall ships coverage
To the editor, Hope no visitors to our lovely city saw the cover of The Coast last week, with its reference to the “annoying masses” on the waterfront. I never knew you could be so exclusive. Lighten up, as they say, and enjoy the passing parade, nautical and human. —Ann Cameron, Halifax
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Health report fails to analyze root causes
If Freddie Mercury were alive, I’d ask his opinion of the Nova Scotia government’s 51-page report on suicide that was finally released last week. The Queen singer, who died of AIDS in 1991, might thrust out his hairy chest, give me his trademark, buck-toothed smile, and belt out “Don’t Try Suicide”: “So you think it’s […]
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NDP victory: Don’t eat the rich
To the editor, I read with interest the feedback on Stephen Kimber’s question, “What now?” (June 11, Upfront). The notion that previous governments have not done enough for the poor due to their support for the rich is misguided. While I agree more needs to be done for those struggling, let’s not forget the hundreds […]
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The V-E Day sailor party
Halifax’s wildest-ever sailors’ celebration began at 5pm on May 7, 1945, when Admiral Leonard Murray unleashed 9,000 war-weary, ready-to-party sailors on a city that didn’t want them. City fathers had made that abundantly clear. The head of the provincial liquor commission closed all its outlets until further notice in order to keep—or so he thought— […]
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Wanting to suck
Ask yourself this: who doesn’t want to drive a suck-up truck? OK, OK, suck-up truck isn’t the proper name. Technically, it’s the Tennant ATLV. That stands for All-Terrain Litter Vehicle. City workers call it “the Tennant”—it’s an alien-looking sit-on vacuum the size of a Bobcat with a wide ground-level sucker on the front and a […]
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Bogs and frogs lose as suburbia expands
In HRM’s vanishing wildlands, excavators rumble relentlessly across scarred landscapes. The destruction of natural habitat in and around HRM’s sprawling suburbs is so routine it’s rarely even newsworthy. Yet once in a blue moon, a determined citizen can make a big difference. On the weekend of June 6, Sackville resident Marilyn Challis spotted one of […]
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Who got the meat?
To the editor, Stephen Kimber’s question, “What now?” (June 11, Upfront), about how the new NDP government will operate, recalls a conference on poverty I attended years ago. A participant told me of social workers teaching poor people how to make soup from bones. One of them asked: “Who got the meat?” The new NDP […]