To the editor, I found Stephen Kimber’s “Paying For Power” article in last week’s issue enlightening. His unfolding of information only peels back a small part of the unseen truths of Nova Scotia politicians. Rather than participate with the citizens of Nova Scotia, they hide stupid, simple facts. So what if the controllers are known? […]
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Reasonable doubt
To the editor, At the bottom of Bruce Wark’s editorial on the Peter March controversy, you printed the quaint little line, “We (The Coast) always promote reasoned public discussion.” So, who gets to decide what is and is not reasoned? Is there a board? Are members voted in? Freedom of expression would not need a […]
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Reasonable doubt
To the editor, After reading Bruce Wark’s February 16 column about Peter March, I can’t help but speculate that Wark’s own reasoning process is breaking down. If his goal is to persuade readers to accept his opinions, he must first convince us that he’s reliable. If an argument contains fallacies, thoughtful readers will not take […]
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Creation myth
There’s a scene from a classic civilization where the emperor Nero plays his fiddle, while around him a fire is destroying Rome. Although the veracity of the story is debatable—if nothing else, his instrument must have been a lyre—the image of a politician indifferent to major problems has earned a place in our vocabulary. Over […]
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Snow parking zone
Last year, Kristian Curran and his wife lived though their first full winter as downtown homeowners. Curran also lived through his first experience with the downtown winter parking ban. Abiding by the ban, which does not allow parking on downtown streets between 1 and 7am, Curran moved his car off of Maynard Street street every […]
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Negative Energy
So long Monte, we hardly knew ya. Monte Solberg – newly minted Harper cabinet minister and long time Reform Alliance Conservative MP — is ditching his blog at www.montesolberg.com after a paltry year and four days in the blogospheric fray. Solberg’s a zippy writer; he spent 17 years as a broadcaster. His blog was a […]
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Alone together
Solitary thinking, self-reflection, alone time: whatever you call it, you probably try to find it; moments where you can to take time for the big questions in life. Presented by Dalhousie University’s School of Public Administration, a new lecture series provides an opportunity for everyone to partake in mass self-reflection—communal alone time, if you will. […]
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Table manners
Get it out of the way early. You probably already have an opinion about Douglas Sparks, and it almost certainly isn’t good. That’s OK. Get in line. In January, Sparks, the Halifax Regional School Board’s African-Nova Scotian member, transformed what one newspaper reporter described as a “seemingly innocuous motion” to change the order of seating […]
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Letters to the Editor
On February 20th, 2006 the Heritage Canada Foundation issued a press release listing downtown Halifax as one of the top 10 Most Endangered Places in Canada. The report goes on to say that the United Gulf Development’s proposal for building 27-storey towers on the former Tex-park site on Granville will “threaten a historic district and […]
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Letters to the Editor
While I am not a huge hockey fan, I do occasionally enjoy watching Olympic hockey. I have been very disappointed, however, in the limited media coverage the successful Canadian women’s hockey team has received compared to the countless stories I have heard and read in the past few days of the abysmal failures of the […]
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Paying for power
As a fifty year old growing up in Halifax I found Steven Kimber’s article “Paying For Power””enlighting. The government backrooms are never seen. His unfolding of information only peels a small smart part of the unseen truths of Nova Scotia politicians. Rather than participate with the citizens of Nova Scotia, they hide stupid simple real […]
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor. I note with interst your article by Mr. S. Kimber in which he mistates various facts mentioning me. Mr Kimber, if he lived here would be a defendant in an intrusion of privacy suit as the Law here protects people from constant re-hash of old news. It is a different suit than libel […]