Opinion

It sure is a busy time of year, what wth christmas/holiday shopping and all, but that doesnt excuse rude and abusive behavior towards mall, department store or supermarket staff. I work cart return at a supermarket ( i wont say which one) and i have to say the staff is great, managment is great, and […]

To the editor, If you read some of the recent press coverage about CKDU-FM’s recent funding drive it would be easy to get think the station is made up of the paid staff and a bunch of volunteers. It would seem the volunteers do programs and the staff make decisions and are responsible for everything, […]

To the editor, Why, Fred, why? What’s with taking pot shots at another shopping district and commission as you set out to establish one for Agricola? (See Erin O’Halloran’s “Street smarts” article from last week’s issue.) What all districts and their mouthpiece commissions have in common is revitalizing, maintaining and growing in the face of […]

To the editor, I’ve just read last week’s letters. Ms. Davis took offense in “No good, Gus” because she thought the ad wasn’t funny, especially since it personally affected her. As someone who watched his vibrant grandmother die from Alzheimer’s, I’m familiar with what she’s gone through. I also see the early signs of it […]

We’d like to apologize to Ms. Stephanie Davis and anyone else who was offended by last week’s Gus’ Pub ad that depicted Alzheimer’s in a humorous way. It was insensitive of us to associate this disease with humour in any form. At Gus’ Pub we strive to provide a fun and entertaining atmosphere so people […]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR My wife and I just returned from a one week vacation with my son and his family in Halifax. We have been back and forth to Halifax since 1998 when my son first attended St. Mary’s University, completed his degree and now works in the banking industry. In all of our […]

Dear Editor, It seems that with every issue of the Coast more and more ads creep in. In the Nov. 17 issue, there were only four pages without any ads; yet, there were twenty-three pages of ONLY ads. This is in addition to all the pages that were mainly ads, with a tiny strip of […]

To the editor, The Canadian Federation of Students, a national student lobby group, may be guilty of cyber squatting. The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, the other big national student lobby group on the block, which had been discussing changing its site name from casa.ca to the bilingual equivalent casa-acae.ca, was surprised to discover that […]

Hello friends at The Coast, The infilling of and development along the Northwest Arm over the last year have intrigued me quite a bit. Now, to make matters more interesting, I learned about the proposal to completely fill the upper portion of the Arm, as a way to deposit all the excavated rock and soil […]