Foreclosure racket Something is wrong with the entire real estate system in Nova Scotia (“Canada’s foreclosure playground,” cover story by The King’s Investigative Workshop, July 4). My father owned a lakefront lot in HRM for 40 years. When he passed his property was supposed to migrate to my mother, but the lot didn’t. Not realizing […]
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Letters to the editor, July 4, 2019
Rent revolution Everyone I know seems to say “Tough luck, we’re all struggling” when we talk about out-of-control rent in this city (“What is affordable housing, anyway?” Reality Bites article by Caora McKenna, posted June 24). If we all came together and realized that it doesn’t have to be that way, we could make things […]
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Halifax’s Sudanese community speaks out in support of pro-democracy protesters and martyrs
The Sudanese community in Halifax has been reeling over the events happening back home. People in Sudan have been calling for a civilian government, and have paid dearly for it. A relative of mine was beaten to death while defending his female peers outside his university campus—he was not even protesting. As part of the […]
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Letters to the editor, June 27, 2019
Grading school I read a post about how parents were feeling lost in regards to their children with learning disabilities, and how they felt there wasn’t enough support within their schools. The sort of problems we hear so much about these days in regards to the NS school system. I could relate to the learning […]
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What is the biggest determinant of achievement in education?
What is the biggest determinate of a quality education? Is it teachers, or is it something far beyond the reach of teachers? What are the factors that continue to keep the achievement gap a seething sea of despair? I’ll start here and tell you that it comes down to economics, plain and simple. We may […]
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The difference between period poverty and universal access for low-income Haligonians
A s the clock approaches 8pm, your long and tedious work day is coming to a close. You can soon head home to help your children with their homework and tuck them into bed. You head to the staff area for your belongings as soon as the clock strikes eight, but on your way you feel […]
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Letters to the editor, June 20, 2019
RE: RE: abortions I found your abortion experiences issue very interesting (“RE: my abortion story” was the central feature in last week’s special issue devoted to the topic). I had an experience in 1970. I suddenly began to bleed and I was not having a period, so I went to the nearest ER—at the old […]
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Letters to the editor, June 13, 2019
Stop those trains The feds recently announced a $47-million port infrastructure plan that will send mile-long freight trains, 24 hours a day, through the south end to replace container trucks downtown. Halifax Port Authority president Karen Oldfield, and politicians Waye Mason and Andy Fillmore, have adopted an incredibly cagey manner of not talking about what […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Shame, fear and access to information
I have not had an abortion. I am not a doctor. I am a white woman with immigrant parents who is a settler in Halifax. I benefit from a healthcare system that is optimized for people who look and speak like me. But when I was around 17 years old, I often repeatedly punched myself […]
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Letters to the editor, June 6, 2019
Stop the bike hate Upon unleashing the Quinpool Road closure this spring, Halifax has asked its residents to cooperate and find alternate means of commuting into the downtown core. Propaganda has asked us to consider the bus or active transport such as cycling. The flaw with this thinking is the outright hatred among many Haligonian […]
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Celebrating Oceans Week and the women making waves
As proud Nova Scotians if I asked you what the slogan of our province’s license plate was, without missing a beat I’d expect you to say “Canada’s ocean playground.” From the surfers who face the frigid February waters at Lawrencetown beach, emerging with icicles clinging to their hoods or beards, to the couples who sit […]
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Letters to the editor, May 30, 2019
Now we are 26 Hypothesis: There’s enough cool shit happening in Halifax to fill a new newspaper. That’s where The Coast began its journalism experiment back in 1993, and this issue marks the paper’s 26th anniversary. (Happy birthday old friend, the improbable ride continues.) Many of the stories in this anniversary issue fit a theme […]
