Letters to the Editor
I, ROBIN HODGSON , hereby make this Story in connection with my medical condition and my wife’s immigration to Canada. 1983 I underwent Entry Medical examination for the Naval Reserve with Commander Holland (PMO). It was discovered that I had a hernia. This was repaired at Camp Hill Hospital. I then completed the Naval Reserve…
Letters to the Editor
STATEMENT OF CASE FOR CPPI, SALLY HODGSON of 28 Nausett Crescent, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia , hereby make this Statement of Case in connection with my husband’s Application for CPP.I have known my husband, ROBIN HODGSON, since January 2002. We were married in September 2002, and since that time, we have been living with Robin’s parents,…
Like a rock
Dear Liz;We would love to heat your buns for your burgers but don’t have the equipment yet. We’ll get there. But keep in mind, you can always ask to have it heated, Wayne will. Also we have a handful of customers who request home cut fries, and as long as it’s not busy, Wayne will…
Like a rock
Dear Liz;We would love to heat your buns for your burgers but don’t have the equipment yet. We’ll get there. But keep in mind, you can always ask to have it heated, Wayne will. Also we have a handful of customers who request home cut fries, and as long as it’s not busy, Wayne will…
Get with the progamming
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the Sundance Film Festival line-up announcement! The fest has announced a return to its independent roots, to which we say we’ll believe it when we freakin’ see it. (Or see the movies, as it were.) But after reading the New York Times this week, we have…
Duke Murray
Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke have added some Dartmouth flavour to their line-up in the form of ex-Guthrie Dale Murray. The alt-country band released a statement on their website on November 29 announcing their parting of ways with founding member Jeff Peers. “The deal is that I am taking over guitar, keyboard, pedal steel and…
Pets before people
A new pet store called Willow’s opened December 7 on Dresden Row across from Pete’s Frootique. The store is owned and operated by mother and daughter team Sheila and Kyra Foster, and is an extension of their previous business, Paws & Play, a pet daycare on Quinpool. Willow’s offers a wide range of pet-pleasing products,…
Last chance
After four years of work and consultation, SuperCitizens have about six weeks left to submit final comments on the regional plan. “We’re asking for any input up until January 31,” says Peter Duncan, the regional plan team’s manager of environmental assets. The six weeks is an extra review period added at the request of the…
Big laffs
Dear David Letterman, I find the name Jane Kansas is insulting and offensive. It excludes 49 states. This sucks. She should change her name to Jane State. We have many examples of this in Canada. Stockwell Day was born Stockwell Thursday, painter Harold Town was Harold Truro and Conrad Black was originally named Conrad Ebony.…
Can’t change history
To Lezlie Lowe, In response to your article last week, I agree with the vast majority of what you said. One thing that I would like to add to the discussion that might be worth pointing out to your readers: The word “holiday” comes from holy-day. The obvious mistake that everyone is making is by…
His way or the highway
Dear Coast, Canadians spend millions of dollars every year travelling to foreign countries. What do we talk about when we get home? We talk enthusiastically about the customs and traditions that we observed in the countries to which we travelled. Are we becoming so hamstrung by political correctness that we are ready to abandon our…
Ball of confusion
To the editor, Usually I enjoy the covers of The Coast, but last week’s has me in a horrible state. Is that a TESTICLE??? As an ex-nun closeted lesbian the worry is enormous. You could have at least labelled it. “Man ball” comes to mind. As it is, the disgust and worry I feel have…
Oxford defined
Dear Ms. Lowe, Thank you for crucifying (sorry, that’s probably not PC) the legislation of Christmas by Oxford Town Council (“Out on a limb,” Dec 8). My sister and I are Oxford natives, and have never been so ashamed of it as we have this past month. We’ve been ashamed of Oxford frequently, but this…
Charity starts with words
To the editor, I am writing in support of Jane Kansas’s article (“Who’s your daddy?” Dec 1). I, like the authors of your letters to the editor from Dec 8, regard charitable work as very important, and I realize that many people concern themselves with the charitable work of the Christmas Daddies organization and not…
A critical bastard speaks
To the editor, I don’t understand why the Top Ten Video Games (“Ten to One,” Dec 8) list reads like something out of the Herald!! Argh! I couldn’t believe it! Zelda, Resident Evil, Civ 4, sure, totally mainstream—but still totally worthy. But The Coast values substance over flash, doesn’t it? So what’s up with Smackdown…
Canadian politics 101
To the editor, Bruce Wark’s personal plight aside—and Bruce, that’s all you seem to editorialize on these days, rather than relevant issues for the common good—(“To serve and protect,” Dec 8) the federal election is coming in just over one month and now is the time to educate yourselves. There is little to no chance…
Oil rigging
Fran Christie-Wright has lived on Sunnydale Avenue in Dartmouth since 1975. The dark water in the narrows of the Halifax Harbour is visible from her home, though partially obscured by the behemoth that is the Tufts Cove Generating Station. She’s close enough to those three red and white stacks to hear the hum of the…
Web sights
Steve Kronski, a produce worker at the Quinpool Superstore, likes his job. With the company for several years, Kronski says his job is less than exciting, except when someone finds a spider in the produce. Kronski (not his real name) says a black widow spider was captured a month ago. Some of the types of…
Edge of destruction
Without charge, here’s an idea for the folks who promote tourism in Halifax. Maybe what we could do down on the waterfront is put up one of those signs, like they have at factories and on construction sites, proclaiming “This Harbour Has Been Explosion Free for 88 Years.” Without a doubt it would become a…
Modern inconveniences
If you dial up Ashton Convenience Store in Upper Nine Mile River, a recorded voice boisterously declares the number out of service. I curse Aliant and Eastlink—I’m not sure which is responsible for these aggressively friendly recordings, the telecommunications multinational or the Halifax-based cable company. I wish I could turn the clock back to an…
Dance card
Honesty is an attempt at which people often fall short. While searching to find the perfect terms and expressions, authenticity erodes and meaning is sacrificed in translation. With his third album, Spirit Dance, roots musician Dave Carmichael has composed 11 songs with the approach that what we want to say is always right on the…
The Chronicles of Narnia
The best moments of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe come early. But even once they’ve passed, this adaptation of CS Lewis’s children’s classic has a surprisingly humble charm. When Lucy (Georgie Henley), the youngest of four children evacuated from home during a WWII air raid, discovers a land inside…
Like a rock
Sometimes, the best meals turn up in the most unexpected places. Driving along Rocky Lake Road between Bedford and Waverley, in an industrial area, there’s a small, squat building with a flat roof surrounded by a partially paved parking lot. A hand-made sign advertising Clams and Chips is tacked to a telephone pole by the…
Work experience
And the number one reason to be self-employed? The lack of co-workers to embarrass you (or themselves) at office parties. In his epic poem “The Waste Land,” TS Eliot wrote, “April is the cruelest month.” He obviously did not work in an office where the biggest annual event was the staff Christmas party. Forget April; the…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage and the ever popular straight rights update.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Enjoy the riches, Sagittarius, says Rob Brezsny.
Spin cycle
What does a feral cat have to do with a bike race? Just ask IDEALBIKES’ manager, Roger Nelson; he’ll tell you it’s all in the name. Nelson is helping to organize the first Alley Cat Scramble that Halifax has seen in over five years. “Basically,” says Nelson, “the Alley Cat Scramble is a cycling event…
Super 8 is enough
Whether it’s a lead who won’t work without his or her daily dose of whiskey, a snowstorm during a summer beach scene or surly extras who won’t listen to the director, every film presents different challenges. Each filmmaker showing their work at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative’s (AFCOOP) annual Super 8 Holiday Party screening tonight dealt…
Tried and Truman
“It’s a time of his life where he has become what he realized,” says director Bennett Miller of Truman Capote. “He found what he was looking for, and suffered the consequences of getting it.” Miller heads a table at which the actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr. and the actor-turned-first-time-screenwriter Dan Futterman…
Up for debate
Welcome to Election 2006! Ah yes, developers are putting up monster homes in the suburbs. Construction is going full speed ahead on a Super Mall in Dartmouth. Rush-hour roads are jammed with fuel-gulping SUVs, minivans and trucks. And, the Canadian TV networks have again decided to bar the Green Party from the TV leaders’ debates.…
