Opinion

Dear Kyle Shaw, I think the white poppy is a great idea. Promoting peace is important any time of year, but especially now. Yet I strongly dissagree with the statement that the red poppy “glorifies war.” The plea of veterans that their service not be in vain is because their actions did serve a valuable […]

To the editor, “They did not die in vain implies the war had a valuable purpose.” Nice logic, Mr. Shaw. Are you saying that our soldiers did die in vain, or that World War II didn’t have a valuable purpose? It’s not exactly clear in your editorial (“Great white hope,” Nov 10). Perhaps you think […]

To Lezlie Lowe, Kudos to you on your forthright treatment of the issue of the lack of public toilet facilities in the Halifax area (“Nowhere to go,” Nov 10). It is high time that this matter was given the serious attention it is due. No one wants to discuss this issue openly, but it is […]

To the editor, I would like to set the record straight concerning the Pizza Corner fire at the KOD on October 27, as mentioned last week in Shop Talk (“Where there’s smoke”). I live above the pizza shop along with three other people and we’re a little sick of everybody getting the story wrong. TC […]

My roomates and I recently sent a “love the way we bitch” about someone pissing in our front porch! How can you have a cover and main article about public urination without printing our bitch? We were very disappointed in you. By nardin

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

Dear Kyle Shaw, I think the white poppy is a great idea. Promoting peace is important anytime of year, but especially now. Yet I strongly dissagree with the statement that the red poppy “glorifys war”. The plea of Vetrans that their service not be in vain is because their actions did serve a valuable purpose. […]

To the editor, Beth Johnson’s letter (“Q & A period” Nov 3) seemed to imply having fewer periods has a direct, beneficial effect on a woman’s health. May I point out that in addition to less menstruation, women in tribes functioning under pre-modern conditions have something else that sets them apart from their “more advanced,” […]

To the editor: In the fall 2005 issue of Naturally Green, HRM’s free quarterly environmental newsletter, an article was published to reinforce the anti-scavenging legislation Bill S-600 Section 16. Entitled “Scavenging, A Blight on the Community,” the short article states scavenging is illegal, quotes a $5,000 fine and provides enforcement information. The article condemns scavenging […]

Re: Proposal for Statue(s) at City Hall The chief challenge of this project would be to find a special alloy of plastics — microscopic networks of fibres that promote the maximum adherence to any passing airborne or physically transported substance. In this plastic medium the form is created — of human beings in the motions […]