To the editor, Bruce Wark’s editorial (“Shared vision,” May 11) got me thinking…when is the public going to remove its collective head from its ass and realize that the main purpose for NASA (and space exploration in general) is to serve as a cover for weapons research and development? Do you really think government gives […]
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Habit trail
I was chowing down on green chili curry the Friday night before Rodney MacDonald pulled the fuse to detonate the provincial election, when I spied a note on the spice packet. It announced that the curry company donates money to help save the endangered Asian elephant. “But what about the poor mainland moose?” I cried, […]
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Question period
Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, says one cannot “predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely.” Hawking (who’s quoted in Bill Bryson’s staggeringly good A Short History of Nearly Everything) is talking about an especially tricky theory of quantum physics. But think about […]
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Letters to the Editor
Dear NWTBDFW,Re: Lowering the flagNice soapbox. Did you even read V.L. Israel’s letter? No mention of lives being less valuable, no mention of not respecting our troops sacrifice. In fact, what is mentioned is that we have more valuable ways of supporting our troops than lowering the flag. The important point you missed was that […]
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Company’s coming
To the editor, Wondering what the real motive is behind this “all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it” from city hall (“Bin there, done that,” April 20)? It’s economics folks, plain and simple. They don’t give a shit about you, but they definitely care about tourists and the […]
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Shared vision
The veteran peace activist Richard Sanders calls it “The War Fighters’ Eye in the Sky.” The eye in question is a sophisticated Canadian satellite called RADARSAT-1. It’s capable of peering through clouds and darkness to produce detailed images of the earth’s surface. “RADARSAT is, in fact, a major Canadian contribution to US-led wars that have […]
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Birth right
Dealing with a newborn at age 63? Like Patricia Rashbrook, the Briton who purposely got knocked up late last year and is due to give birth in two months? Even with the sickly sweet sentimentality of Mother’s Day washing up on the shores of this weekend, the thought leaves me drowning in fear. Don’t get […]
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Letters to the Editor
Wondering what the real motive is behind this ‘all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it’, economics folks, tourism, plain and simple, they don’t give a shit about you the haligonian but they definetly care about tourists and the money they bring, they have to create the illusion that […]
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Letters to the Editor
Wondering what the real motive is behind this ‘all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it’, economics folks, tourism, plain and simple, they don’t give a shit about you the haligonian but they definetly care about tourists and the money they bring, they have to create the illusion that […]
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Where the wind blows
To the editor, I was surprised by Mike Fleury’s rosy-spectacled comments about wind power in Reality Bites (April 20). It seems Mr. Fleury is quite happy to buy into the current “greenwash” around alternative energy that our provincial government and Nova Scotia Power are selling the public these days. Recently, the provincial government has been […]
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Don’t believe the hype
To The Coast, Man, I never write in to reply to editorials, but Kyle Shaw’s “The mess is the message” (April 20) made me think. Starting from scratch on global warming is exactly what we need. There have been so many conflicting predictions about what global warming has, is or is about to do. Look […]
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Et tu, Brute?
To the editor, While I was surprised by the fact that the Canadian media largely ignored Stephen Harper’s discontinuation of the One-Tonne Challenge (how do you cancel a challenge?) and took a blase attitude toward Earth Day (April 22) this year, I was downright shocked that the same went for The Coast. Where are your […]