Opinion

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 […]

Dear Coast editors: While I’m sure many readers revel in Bruce Wark’s harsh assessment of this city’s press, he’s not being entirely honest. Many Coast readers would be surprised to know Wark once worked for the Daily News, which is often the target of his rants. It’s telling that someone who preaches—and teaches—ethics in journalism […]

To the editor, Boiling down the entire “No place to go” article into a few requirements, it seems we want: Male, female and unisex (family) facilities at each location; more stalls in male washrooms to accommodate “shy bladder” users; female facilities at least twice as numerous/large as male facilities; all stalls larger to accommodate barrier-free […]

To the editor, Just a quick note to let whoever titled the picture of Walter Schreifels on page 30 of last week’s Coast know that the attacking “fan” appears to be a lion…not a cougar. DEFINITELY not a cougar. Nice try though! By Darby