Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example. […]
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Letters to the Editor
re; T. Crilley’s ‘Screwed on Sunday’ letter to editor question ‘Does no one see the hypocrisy here?’ Yes I see the hypocrisy and it’s only the beginning of the obsurdity that exists in this lost culture, it’s really sad. I was attempting to explain the whole ‘no shopping on Sunday in Canada’ thing to a […]
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A piece of Persia
Shiraz restaurant opened last month in the small, bright purple building near the corner of Hollis and South. Shiraz serves a variety of Persian dishes, including lamb and chicken kabobs, rice dishes, salads and soups. Food is available for both eat-in (there are a couple of stools inside, but space is at a premium) and […]
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Law flaws
Nova Scotia’s anti-Sunday shopping law: Law, or meekly-enforced suggestion? Discuss. Personally, we’re inclined to go with “suggestion” after the events of last week. The Atlantic Superstore on Barrington Street first skirted the Sunday shopping ban on June 11, and consequently kicked the floodgates wide open—as in, province-wide. Last week, Sobeys responded to the Superstore venture […]
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Screwed on Sunday
To the editor, It’s frustrating and unfair that business owners now have to resort to loopholes to service the obvious demand for more shopping hours. Can you say double standard? You can go the drug store, you can go see a movie, you sure as hell can go drink and gamble, but if you’re out […]
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Drunken slugfest
Dear Lezlie Lowe, Thanks for “Slug it Out” (Lowedown, June 15). Slugs are a pain in the ass, especially here in the south end. So, like you: my precious new plants, that I spent a month putting in my garden…eaten. Sure enough, the culprits were slugs and snails. So I put out what is called […]
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The day the music died
To the editor, The days of “good times and great oldies” are numbered, my friends. The songs you’ve loved to listen to again and again are being reformatted for a new adult contemporary station on your FM dial (as opposed to 96 on the AM). The conversion should be complete between July and August of […]
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School of corrections
Dear Mike Fleury, I enjoyed your rant about the school board (Reality Bites, June 8). As a substitute teacher, I’ve had a few myself. I just wanted to point out that the survey didn’t “request teachers to anonymously disclose their sexual orientation.” It was not anonymous at all, and that was the problem. The part […]
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Lunch with Bill
Journalism’s cool club, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, allowed The Coast to join its rarified ranks three years ago. Actually, to be perfectly cocky, they welcomed us with open arms, calling The Coast “the classic admissions-committee no-brainer.” Since then, we’ve gone to AAN’s annual club meeting to rub shoulders and share common problems with our […]
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The green mile
The greening of the Grand Parade is an idea both promoted and protested—promoted by environmentalists who want to see it turned into a car-free space, such as a skating rink, and protested by some Halifax Regional Municipality councillors who don’t want to lose their parking spots. But a “green corridor,” the result of a study […]
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Where the sidewalk ends
Giles Oland and his girlfriend Dawn MacPhee discovered what one expert calls “Halifax’s dirty little secret” on a Friday night last October. The couple, in their late twenties, spent a relaxing evening enjoying dinner with friends at a downtown restaurant. They stopped for a nightcap at a bar on Argyle and then, at about 1am, […]
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Stop the presses
I hate that feeling—when you think of just the right thing to say five minutes after a conversation ends and you relive it over and over and over. My most irksome what-should-have-been moment in recent years took place during the Halifax protest for the visit of George W. Bush in December 2004. A reporter asked […]