To the editor, In regards to last week’s article “To have and hold on,” in grade 7 I moved to a southern Ontario city and took so much crap for being from NS—from peers, parents and teachers—it scarred me for life. I used to wonder how much shit these people could get into if another […]
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We heart McNab’s
Dear Coastals, Sunday was my first wedding anniversary. After waking up to the realization I really may be an adult now, my wife and I had an incredible breakfast at a swanky downtown restaurant (name witheld to avoid the image being one of those consumerist trendsetter types). Following that, we took the ferry to Alderney […]
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Hell hath no fury like Quinpool scorned
To whom it may concern, I’m a member of the Quinpool Road Mainstreet Business Association. I speak for many of the merchants along Quinpool Rd. when I say I was angry and hurt by the horrific article in last week’s Back to School edition (“Neighbourhood watch”). Many of us are regular advertisers in your paper […]
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Artist depreciation
I spun Mozart’s Greatest Hits recently as I perused a lengthy discussion paper on the development of the SuperCity’s new cultural policy. A Cultural Advisory Committee composed of two city councillors and an assortment of citizens, artists and kulturcrats released the paper in June. To the foreboding strains of Mozart’s famous mass for the dead […]
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In search of fame
I Google myself all the time. Nothing dirty. It’s just searching my name on Google.ca. Though admitting it feels kind of like letting the cat out of the bag on chronic masturbation. And it’s a similar activity, really — fuelled by self-love, simmered in a feeling of shame that’s, if you’ll pardon the pun, bred […]
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Why, oh YWCA?
To the editor, Regarding the closure of the YWCA Women’s housing program I was going to try and take the high road with this, but I’m just too damned pissed off to be the bigger person. YWCA Board of Directors, Community of Social Services and those commercial bastards that are tearing down the YWCA and […]
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Sod still off
Dear Coast, All summer long the eyes and ears of residents and visitors to Point Pleasant Park have suffered as a long deep trench has been dug all the way around the Park on Franklyn Street and then down the hill to the new sewage pumping station on the North West Arm. I suppose it’s […]
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CBC solidarity
Dear Mr. Wark, Congratulations on your fine editorial regarding the CBC lockout (“Tough lock” August 18). This is a real Canadian tragedy. In that same issue, Lezlie Lowe’s “Time machine” article also affected me; and “On the line” by Stephanie Domet, with her very personal reaction on the lockout’s change to her life, saddened me. […]
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Four score
On a cloudless September morning four years ago, hijackers commandeered two passenger jets and flew them into a showcase of American capitalism. The 110-storey twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed in less than two hours. The American writer, Lewis Mumford once described those towers as dinosaurs, examples of “the purposeless giantism and technological […]
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To have and to hold on
Dear Dalton McGuinty, premier of Ontario, The one-armed boy’s yelling woke me up this morning. I poked my head outside to see if the pit bulls were at him again, and soon discovered what all the excitement was about. “There’s a boat coming, you,” he said. “Better get the frig down there, wha?” Although I […]
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Book ’em
A school in Vail, Arizona, becomes this autumn one of the first e-book high schools, ditching real, live paper textbooks for the flat screen sheen of student-issue laptops, e-texts, online articles and an extensive WiFi network. I can already hear the apocalypse-prophesizing of book lovers everywhere. But come now. This isn’t the same disaster of […]