To the editor, Regarding the Dec 22 letter, “Machine green,” I used to be a lifelong, well-known NDP activist (to admit my biases, I was also the provincial organizer for the federal Greens in the 2004 campaign in NS, the official agent for Michael Oddy in his recent by-election effort and the Green who nominated […]
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Sting ops: Way of the future
To the editor, Offering a bribe isn’t a real crime (though it’s written as one). It becomes real once the other party accepts it. That’s robbery of taxpayers’ money. Both parties become guilty of conspiracy against the citizens at that moment. Let’s say our city councillors did report these guys at the time. What would […]
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War torn
As a new year begins, let’s ask a simple question: Why are Canadian soldiers fighting and dying in Afghanistan? The government says we’re helping to rebuild the country, establish democracy and maintain stability. It adds that, “Canada’s overarching goal is to prevent Afghanistan from relapsing into a failed state that gives terrorists and terrorist organizations […]
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Life of death
I sang along to “Auld Lang Syne” this New Year’s, in blithe contradiction to that part about auld acquaintances being forgotten. You see, 2005 was the year I found my long-lost best friend, my first best friend, Karen. We talked about entering kindergarten together, about rollerskating shows we put on in my basement and how […]
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Vote for Pedro
To the editor, I’m just writing in response to Matthew Campbell’s letter (“Canadian politics 101,” Dec. 15). It’s totally biased and doesn’t help much with voting. All that he says about the Conservatives is negative crap and mostly great things about the Liberals. I’ve read enough about politics, and all three parties are so crappy […]
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Blueberry capital blues
To the editor, Oxford, sweet Oxford. I have been plotting my escape for some time. Since 2001. I regularly depart to Halifax for relief (desperately hoping to move there, or at least closer, as my job improves). And like the Hunsleys who wrote a letter in this week’s Coast (“Oxford defined,” Dec 15), I don’t say […]
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Now look up “endearing”
To the editor, I am writing to you in defence of Mike Drake at Strange Adventures and the accusation in the Nov. 24 issue that he has an “endearing curmudgeonly streak.” I looked up curmudgeonly on dictionary.com to ensure I was up-to-date on the definition of this slight (I also looked up the word “slight” […]
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Big empty Tory
To the editor, In the recent leader’s debate, Conservative leader Stephen Harper, when speaking about the challenges of governing this country, said that “Canada is a big, empty country.” It struck me as an odd thing to say, but somehow appropriate for the leader of our country’s right-wing party. I know what he meant; that […]
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Signs of the times
The best thing about 2005 was there was no nuclear war. But there were lots of worse things, including the earthquake in Pakistan that killed 80,000. That quake was a natural disaster. But the record number of hurricanes that brought death and destruction to Central America, the Caribbean and the US in 2005 were, at […]
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Letters to the Editor
We have the receipts. Please go to http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html (Page S8987-S8998 of September 20, 2002 Congressional Record). While Saddam Hussein is “performing” in protective custody and Ossama bin Laden has free reign in drumming up business for the Military Industrial Complex, Bechtel (and the bin Ladens) have been given US contracts to rebuild Iraq ( see […]
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Letters to the Editor
THE BUSH “OILIGARCHY” WAS NOT LYING ABOUT WMD by Joseph Morales Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts. Please go to http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html (Page S8987-S8998 of September 20, 2002 Congressional Record). It would do well for you to memorize the respective symptomologies because privateers, like Bechtel, may have secretly recovered the remnant […]
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Machine green
Dear Bruce Wark, Having been active in Green politics for over 20 years, it is with a great sense of sadness that I agree with your editorial “Up for debate” (Dec 15). Under Jim Harris’s leadership, the Green Party has largely abandoned the Global Green Charter’s commitment to a sustainable environmental future based on non-violence, […]
