Opinion

Hi Liz, I just wanted to Thank You so much for the wonderful article you wrote on the Seaside Shanty Restaurant! As the new owner of the restaurant, I couldn’t be more pleased to read all the great things you had to say!! Next time you are in the restaurant, please ask if I am […]

To the editor, The Liberal’s proposed “up to $2,000 in retail tax rebates for the purchase of fuel-efficient and low emission vehicles” is commendable. However, an incentive to purchase fuel-efficient vehicles should go hand-in-hand with a disincentive to purchase “gas guzzlers.” This could easily be achieved by making the Provincial Vehicle Registration tax proportional to […]

To the editor, I’m writing in regards to Megan Wennberg’s Shop Talk column “Paint for life” (May 25). As the owner of Dandy-Lion Eco Interior Painting, I was pleased that Megan took the time to include me in her column; however, a large portion of the article joked about me “painting myself out of a […]

To The Coast, Some of us don’t need to visit the big box stores and shop ’til we drop on Sundays, but it sure would be nice to be able to buy groceries when we want to, not when the government tells us we have to. Our weekdays are packed, and I really don’t think […]

It is commendable that you are concerned about the massive consumption practised by North Americans, and Nova Scotians in particular (“Shopping maul,” June 1). Linking that concern to Sunday shopping, however, is spurious and irrelevant. Why have you limited your indignation to the retail sector? If reduction of consumption is the goal, then it would […]

Have you noticed large full colour advertisements pasted to the construction fences at the Art Gallery on NS on George Street, or outside the Lieutenant Governor’s residence, or on closed gas stations and other construction fences around town? These would be ads for Coke products, Axe boy’s perfume, the Junos and other big corporate clients. […]

MACKENZIE – RIGHT IDEA WRONG METHOD! The Liberal’s proposed ” up to $2,000 in retail tax rebates for the purchase of fuel-efficient and low emission vehicles” is commendable. However, the same outcome could be better and more economically achieved with a “tax-neutral” approach. Quite simply, an incentive to purchase fuel-efficient vehicles should go hand-in-hand with […]

Re: Vol 14 June 1-6 Music Snow Patrol Dear Johnston Farrow – Snow Patrol’s debut is not “Final Straw”. SP’s “When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clean Up” was released way back in 2001, on Jeepster. (it’s a good listen, too…) FYIen By evelynnapier

A Pair of Pears When you walk into the supermarket intending to buy a pear do you ever realize that when you buy a single pear it sounds the same as pair? Unfortunatly when you say you are buying a single pear in most cases you will be saying it verbally which could make it […]

To the editor, When Rodney MacDonald won his leadership campaign he said he would make the environment one of his top four priorities. Yet he has allowed one of his campaign’s biggest donors, Pioneer Coal, to strip-mine in Cape Breton. There is no Tory plan to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, increase efficiency or […]

To the editor, I really want to send a big thank you to Erica Butler for writing “Good to grow” (May 11). Her article spurred me into action. As a resident in the Springfield Lake area I am very concerned about the shortsighted and irresponsible development that has been proposed. Councillor Brad Johns is right. […]