I must have been really wicked in a past life because in this one, I’m required to scan news releases. On Tuesday, November 8, I noticed one from Canada NewsWire, a PR outfit that gets paid to send a daily flood of promotional blurbs into newsrooms. The release, from the giant condom maker Durex, claimed […]
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Letters to the Editor
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
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Let it bleed
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,” […]
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Scavenger hunt
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 […]
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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 […]
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Great white hope
It’s hard to avoid red poppies around Remembrance Day. Veterans are stationed in grocery stores across the country, selling the familiar felt and plastic flower. The bright piece of lapel flair is a must-have for politicians, making Canada’s parliament look like a convention of opium producers this time of year. The Chronicle-Herald even printed a […]
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The late show
I’m trying to come to terms with something Dr. Phil once said: when you’re late (and I am — consistently), you don’t care enough to be on time. It’s classic Dr. Phil, whose take-responsibility — or, as he calls it, “get real” — pop psychology might well be dubbed “deal with your own shit, lady.” […]
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As one of the many post-secondary students living and loving in the HRM, it’s a bit of a kick in the pants to see Dalhousie take the top spot in university-related categories in the recent Best Of issue. As far as I can tell, 20-something university students are an important demographic of Coast readership – […]
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Nov 5/05 ~ Day 16. I quit smoking 16 days ago. After many days of teetering mind loss, little by little I’m starting to feel somewhat like myself again. My boyfriend of 10 years has also kicked the habit and it’s probably one of the hardest tests this relationship has been thru. It’s a beautiful […]
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Q & A period
Dear Lezlie, I read with interest your column in last week’s Coast. I’m one of those women you talk about, one of the wacky bunch who second-guess Mother Nature’s plan for us ovary-bearers. Contrary to the belief of women and doctors in the industrialized world, women aren’t really meant to cycle every 28-35 days. This […]
