[Image-1] “If you think this snow is bad, you should have seen it last year!” were some of the first words I was greeted with upon landing at Halifax on December 29, 2015. Shrugging on my shiny new ski jacket (Irish weather rarely calls for such extreme attire) I joined the queue for the sprinkling […]
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Letters to the editor, March 17, 2016
Skate shooting Um, as a responsible mother you should never drop your son off at an underground parking garage to skate (“Craig McNally wants to build Halifax an indoor skatepark,” The City, March 10). That’s private property and you’re teaching him it’s fine and dandy to do whatever he wants wherever he wants. Tut tut […]
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Letters to the editor, March 10, 2016
Kudos to The Coast Kudos to you and your staff for current pieces in The Coast (“A world of silence and emptiness for those battling depression,” The City; “Oppression equals depression.” Voice of the City, March 3) that address the experiences of people of African descent re: mental illness. For a variety of reasons, the […]
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Stronger access to information needed in Nova Scotia
[Image-1] Nova Scotians are not known for their “right to know” activism. We might march in the streets to remember veterans or to protest moose culls and school closures but typically we do not march in the streets demanding transparency and accountability from our local and provincial governments. But Nova Scotians file more access to […]
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Mental illness and African Nova Scotian communities
[Image-1] From the 1960s on down, many labels have been placed on African Nova Scotians who exhibited differing behaviors. These labels include “learning disabled,” “crazy,” “animalistic,” et cetera. One could venture to say most psychologists and psychiatrists in the province of Nova Scotia have little or no understanding of the lives, culture, heritage, lineage and […]
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Letters to the editor, March 3, 2016
The road worrier You know what I love about Halifax? The fact that it’s finally growing up and becoming a city, seeing some great cultural development, with a real potential to be a destination. With Halifax growing, there have been many pains: Dartmouth’s refusal to integrate; The Big Lift; locals combatting condos which, by comparison […]
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It’s time this government got back to work and fixed Nova Scotia’s film industry
[Image-1] The making of films in Nova Scotia has been a part of the artistic and business landscape since 1913 when Evangeline, one of Canada’s very first films, was shot here. Thousands of Nova Scotians have been employed in this industry over the years. They and their families were a vital part of the Nova Scotia […]
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Letters to the editor, February 25, 2016
Alton Gas pains The regular, mainstream media has been doing a crappy job on this story of the natural gas storage depot planned for salt caverns near the Shubenacadie River (“Going against the tide: The fight against Alton Gas,” cover feature by Miles Howe, February 18). Thank you Miles Howe and The Coast for some […]
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How long is someone labelled a Come From Away?
[Image-1] We were looking for a metaphor that would make it more understandable for others to comprehend what immigrants are going through in the beginning, and we came up with this: Imagine that you came into a shiny prom, pleasant yet unfamiliar music is played and all dancers are arranged in pairs or groups. They […]
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Letters to the editor, February 17, 2016
Pedal pushing With regard to the two letters recently published in The Coast, the Halifax Cycling Coalition would like to lend our support to everyone who rides a bicycle year-round (“Snow Justice” by Warren Heiti, January 28, and “Don’t winter bike” by Larry Cooke, February 11). Last week was Winter Bicycle Week, where over 200 […]
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Letters to the editor, February 11, 2016
Don’t winter bike In response to Warren Heiti’s “Snow justice” open letter to mayor Mike Savage (Reply All, January 28 issue): Hey Warren, we have a real winter in this country every year, January through March, and last year was brutal. It’s easy to bitch and demand everything for nothing. You seem to expect that you […]
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I believe Lucy because I know what it’s like
[Image-1] Yesterday at work, one my co-workers was talking about the Ghomeshi case. This trial is about Ghomeshi’s alleged actions. Not about what three women did before they went the courts. But he mentioned that he didn’t understand why Lucy Decoutere and the other women who have so far testified in the case stayed in […]