These are the letters and comments from the print edition.
Opinion
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The weight of intersectionality
As a university student in Halifax, I walk into a classroom or research lab, looking around eagerly, hoping to see someone who looks like me. I gaze around anxiously, searching to find at least one person who can feel the weight that I’m carrying. I sigh in disappointment, realizing that yet again, I am alone. […]
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Letters to the editor, April 11, 2019
More NS film jobs An open letter to Geoff MacLellan, Nova Scotia’s minister of business, I am beyond frustrated with a number of your responses to questions posed by Tim Houston in the legislature this week. Your ill-informed commentary illuminates the fact that this provincial Liberal government has no real concept of how the film […]
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Are there really any Shannon Park stadium stans out there?
Stadium-bashing has evolved into a far more popular and fun sport around here than football ever will be. The flames of public ridicule and horror are amply fanned by the announcement of some eye-watering costs to be taxpayer-funded, followed by the protracted absence of any firm business proposal from Maritime Football. The latest: Shannon Park’s […]
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Letters to the editor, April 4, 2019
The “average” lie Caora McKenna’s story on city council spending decisions repeats the convenient-to-quote fiction that the average home’s tax bill is $1,979 (“Money for tree and old people’s knees,” The City section, March 21). Council just approved a new tax rate which, combined with the province’s archaic property valuation system, will increase the tax […]
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Six years of abortion advancements in Atlantic Canada
Access to Choice Celebration Monday, April 8, 5:30pm Halifax Distilling Company 1668 Lower Water Street More info at halifax@leaf.ca Six years ago, when Dr. Henry Morgentaler died, many Atlantic Canadian abortion advocates felt disarmed and afraid. Morgentaler’s private clinic in Fredericton had provided most of New Brunswick’s abortions for years, each patient paying $750. The province […]
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Letters to the editor, March 28, 2019
Saintly spelling In your issue of March 14, which covered St. Patrick’s Day, I see St. Patty’s Day is mentioned a few times. But it should be St. Paddy’s. Please correct this, as it is offensive to the Irish. I am not Irish but have been admonished about this by someone who is! —D.A.Burns, Halifax […]
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Cogswell’s flyovers and flyby consulting
As soon as early fall, those much-loathed suspended highways could come crashing down amid applauding crowds. God knows where all the traffic will go whilst we await Cogswell to be reborn from the rubble, but with all those great new public spaces and viewpoints this is a story about people winning over traffic, right? Back […]
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How to fight Islamophobia in the wake of New Zealand terrorist attack
To my horror, I learned from social media that there has been another attack at a mosque that left 49 people dead and almost 50 injured in New Zealand. The sheer number of people dead is inconceivable to me. Sadly, the heinous act itself is not. I empathize with the victims in New Zealand, with […]
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Letters to the editor, March 21, 2019
Living with Airbnb “The first point of a city is to live in it, the second is to visit”—so says a spokesperson for the city of Amsterdam, as quoted in the Guardian this week. The article is about rental homes in Amsterdam, where the proliferation of Airbnbs is apparently ruining life for the city’s residents. […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Foreign correspondence
It’s a funny thing about alternative newsmedia organizations like The Coast. More than 100 of us across the US and Canada have banded together as members of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and we have great meetings where people who do the specialized work of producing an urban weekly newspaper discover their peers. But because […]
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Cogswell plans leave room for more opportunity
I n Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth Century Halifax, author Ted Rutland says that in 1970, the city’s view was that construction of the “dystopian” Cogswell Interchange was slum clearance in the name of urban renewal. A similar official view prevailed about a decade earlier with the relocation of Africville residents. With […]
