To the editor, As a planning student at Dalhousie University, an aspiring architect and a Haligonian, I am in favour of the United Gulf towers. I believe they are exactly what this city needs. We cannot allow our city to get trapped in a time bubble—we need to allow it to evolve and advance as […]
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A view to the future
To the editor, At the end of last week’s editorial on the Cultural Plan, Kyle Shaw expressed his concern over the proposed United Gulf towers being built on Granville and Hollis Streets downtown “in what is otherwise a budding heritage district.” Who in their right mind would suggest that a development on the lot of a […]
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Sparking the debate
To the editor, I am writing in response to Stephen Kimber’s article “Table manners.” There are a number of inaccuracies in Kimber’s article, which do not come as any surprise to me since I have not seen him at any school board meetings. For the record (and it is on the record—the audio recording of […]
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Sparking the debate
To the editor, Kimber’s telling of Mr. Sparks’ story just serves to remind us all that racism is still very present, not only in our school boardrooms but throughout our community. I think we need to pay heed by taking responsibility for examining how our own “seemingly innocuous” actions and assumptions may be perpetuating hurt, […]
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Sparking the debate
To the editor, I’m not sure if disgust would be the appropriate word to describe how I feel about Mr. Sparks’ pathetic cry for media attention, trying to score votes just in time for the next provincial election. It shouldn’t matter if you are sitting by someone who is like-minded on issues arising at meetings. […]
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Sparking the debate
To the editor, I was extremely impressed with “Table manners,” Stephen Kimber’s February 23 article about Doug Sparks and the controversy surrounding the HRM school board debacle. It was a brilliant dissection of a subject that at the surface appeared trivial. Mr. Kimber took us on a journey that was revealing and enlightening. During the […]
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Cinéma vérité
You could do worse than a double feature of Capote and Good Night, and Good Luck. Both are up for the best picture Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards, and taken together they give a crash course on everything that’s wrong with journalism today. Capote follows author Truman Capote from 1959, when he started writing a […]
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Broken home
Early Monday morning, a backhoe began ripping through an old blue house on the corner of Creighton and Gerrish Streets. By 11:30am, the view from the sidewalk was deceptive—the facade of the building was still intact, giving the impression of a fully-formed home. But behind the outer walls, most of the house already lay in […]
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Wax and wane
Ladies, pull up your pants. Brazilian wax jobs are going out of style. In case you’ve managed to miss this decade-and-a-half-old trend in pubic hair management that hit its height in the late ’90s, or if you’ve never been plucky enough to ask someone the ins and outs, here goes: You lie naked from the […]
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Unoriginal sin
Lynn Taylor knows she’s fighting an uphill battle when offers of free pizza and pop still can’t fill the room. About 20 engineering students fidget anxiously in a large classroom at Dalhousie University’s Sexton campus. This is the biggest group to turn out for any session during Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Week, which was held February […]
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Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. 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 his seat and it was great […]
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Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. 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 his seat and it was great […]