Improving support for physicians in Nova Scotia is an important component of solving the province’s current healthcare woes. However, the “crisis” is not about physicians. It’s about inadequate health system policies, poor planning and lost opportunities, especially in primary care. Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that Nova Scotia has the fourth-highest […]
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Calling on the federal government to do better for refugee and asylum seekers
T he Liberal government is already gearing up for the fall elections by sending a troubling “tough on immigration” message. This includes both a move to expand the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), as well as anti-refugee measures put forward in budget implementation bill C-97. Thirteen local groups sent an open letter to MP […]
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Letters to the editor, May 23, 2019
The kids have this Peter Martyn is right in his “Stop scaring kids” letter, our hope for the future does lie in rebellious “kids” (Reply all, May 15). However, he misses the mark on every other part of his argument. Starting from personal experience, no students who participated in the school climate strike in […]
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Letters to the editor, May 16, 2019
Stop scaring kids Last week’s cover story, about the need for Nova Scotia to get off fossil fuels, opens with a scene of Halifax students protesting human-caused climate change, joining students from all over the world in the May 3 protest (“A just transition,” by Laura Cutmore). Many of those who ditched classes did so […]
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Ramadan supports unavailable for prisoners in Burnside
Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar, a religiously significant month for Muslims, because it is during the Month of Ramadan that the Quran was first revealed to Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). For 1,440 years, Muslims around the world have experienced Ramadan as a time to reconnect with the creator. The most special […]
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Rugby taught me: My body is good. My body is athletic.
L ast week, the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation announced it was pulling high school rugby, mid-season, with no warning and I’m assuming, without any idea of the uproar it was setting off. The season is back on, under the care of Rugby Nova Scotia, and we’ll have to wait for the summer to see […]
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Letters to the editor, May 9, 2019
Ally advice As a PhD student at Dal, I really enjoyed reading Danielle Gaitor’s articulate and personal piece on inclusion (“More than just a diversity initiative,” Voice of The City, April 18). As a white female Canadian I am more privileged than most, and not able to personally identify with most of Gaitor’s challenges. Still, […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Fame for the messenger
People don’t go into journalism to be universally admired—the idea of killing the messenger has apparently been part of pop culture since a Sophocles play in 442BC. But as Facebook and Google tighten their grip on the world’s attention and advertising, and public officials are increasingly emboldened to slander the fourth estate as the enemy […]
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Letters to the editor, May 2, 2019
Halifax is garbage at garbage cans Hello to “A member of the Halifax community,” who wrote the letter in last week’s Coast about the overflowing garbage bin with the garbage all mixed together (“Recycling far from home,” Reply all). The bin you were referring to is a single bin where, yes, all the garbage, compostables, […]
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Time for a second look at Alton Gas
L ast week, news came down that we have a new environment minister: Gordon Wilson has replaced Margaret Miller. We welcome a fresh set of eyes on this important file. Minister Wilson arrives at a critical time to do right by Mi’kmaq communities dealing with environmental racism—from Pictou Landing First Nation’s long struggle to make […]
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Letters to the editor, April 25, 2019
Climate: Endgame Looking for heroes? I have some to recommend. They are the young people who recently marched, in Halifax and around the world, for what should be their birthright—a supportive climate in which to grow up and fulfill their promise. Those young people left school on a Friday, not to start their weekend fun […]
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Time for Canada’s own green new deal
We have just 11 years to cut global emissions in half in order to avoid climate catastrophe. Young people like myself are justifiably scared for our futures. This year is critical—and terrifying—as the federal election is under 180 days away. Our prime minister, who was elected mostly by young people on a platform of climate […]
