News + Opinion

I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn […]

Most years, the Public Gardens open on the long weekend in May and close on Remembrance Day, November 11, limiting public access to the city’s most beautiful park. Given the good weather that Haligonians often enjoy in early spring and late fall, shouldn’t the Gardens be open as weather permits? Last year and this year, […]

To the editor, In preparation for the Easter holiday, many parents will consider getting a pet rabbit as a present for their children. Rabbits do NOT make good pets for young children. Rabbits are easily stressed by excessive handling, and children quickly lose interest in an animal that doesn’t like to be picked up and […]

To the bouncers of Halifax, As a regular patron of many bars throughout Halifax, I find it disturbing that many of the bouncers I encounter are ignorant assholes with belligerent, egocentric attitudes. Although there are many kind and honest bouncers throughout the city, many dickhead, power-tripping bouncers still exist. As a Maritimer, I take pride […]

To the editor, You’ve got to be kidding me! The whorehouse, excuse me, Gentlemen’s Massage Club, on Windmill Road was raided two weeks ago, two nights in a row. Whores were busted for prostitution, johns were busted for soliciting and the owner, a man from New Brunswick, was busted for pimping. They’re apparently back in […]

To the editor, I was interested to read last week’s editorial about prostitution, not so much for its progressive bent, but for how classically liberal the viewpoint put forward is (“Tail chasing,” April 6). It’s easy to think that decriminalizing prostitution will have the same positive results as decriminalizing marijuana has had in countries like […]

To the editor, In this time of hypersexualized culture and sexually active children, Planned Parenthood should not be losing funding, it should be gaining (“Clinical trials,” April 6)! I went to their clinic for my first birth control pills, my first condom and my first STD test—all of which I may have gone without if […]

To the editor, I used to think Halifax was a fairly sophisticated city, not severely dwarfed by Toronto and Vancouver. But the behaviour of the audience at the Junos has me wondering: are all Atlantic Canadians crude blue-collar types who hang on to old injustices that give them the long end of the stick? Sure, […]

Dear Tara Thorne, Loved the Juno article (“It’s all your fault,” Juno Guide). Thanks for telling it like it is! Quit voting with your dollars, folks, and support stuff that’s for real. Keep your dollars local. The more support we all give local indie artists and the less attention we pay to huge international bands, […]