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Shannon, this is an awesome guitar solo:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3034776103380536828 It’s not artsy-fartsy, but the guy is skilled. Every band should aspire to rock god status, otherwise there’s no point. 😉 Cheers,Marcmwmurphyx@yahoo.com By Marc Murphy

No doubt Stephen Harper feels he did the right thing in appointing the unelected Michael Fortier and the elected but politically flexible David Emerson to his cabinet. He had excellent motives —he wanted to provide representation for Quebec and BC in his government—something the election process and the voters inconsiderately failed to do in the […]

To the editor, I wonder if Darren Watts’ letter to the editor in the March 2 issue, in which he asserts that Doug Sparks’ new seat was originally going to be at the front of the table, doesn’t miss the point? Perhaps when mediation is completed we’ll have answers to the questions that remain. For […]

Dear editor, I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute in your February 23 issue. This is a topic where the “mainstream” papers were disappointingly incomplete in their reporting. I know Doug Sparks and I knew the story behind his refusal to take […]

To the editor, I cannot even begin to describe to you the level of horror and revulsion I felt upon seeing the full-page ad you ran in The Coast for a smokeless tobacco product in your February 2 issue. This is absolutely unacceptable. Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of brutal and incurable forms of […]

To the editor, I almost barfed when I read in the February 23 issue that Liz Feltham considers KFC the best fried chicken. It was not because she referred to it as “dirty bird.” No. It was because of the support this oblivious woman gives to the “restaurant” that uses the most outrageously cruel and […]

Dear editor, The Junos have chosen anti-fur activist Pam Anderson to host their award ceremony. Her connections to PETA make her unfit to host a show that takes place in a region of Canada where fur is still harvested for a living. This is not the type of person we want in Atlantic Canada and […]

To the editor, As an aesthetician with my own practice and a busy Brazilian waxer, I can attest that this service is far from going “out of style” as Lezlie Lowe claims (March 2, “Wax and Wane”); I do about five of them a day. It is my most-requested service, because I am certified, trusted […]

To the editor, I have noticed that most of the individuals supporting the United Gulf proposal live in Dartmouth, Sackville or Bedford. If these people want the towers in their community, then go after it. Don’t support a functionally obsolete structure in my community of peninsular Halifax. Further, it is the salience factor in the […]

To the editor, In Kyle Shaw’s February 23 editorial, he urged citizens of Halifax to attend the public hearing regarding the United Gulf development on the former Tex Park site and “put your foot down.” I attended the public hearing and put their foot down was exactly what the people of Halifax did. A wide […]