How can you print that the murder of a man is only the third worst thing to happen to Halifax this year behind the mayor and a bus strike? So a gay activist getting murdered by a not criminally responsible man gets bronze place? And a man doing a job, albeit not well, gets second place as the worst thing to happen to Halifax? It’s better for our image to have a hate crime than to have a bad mayor? This should have never came off the cutting room floor. —Reader
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
No one knows what you are talking about. We don’t actually read The Coast, just head straight for the bitches. Sorry.
How about all of those murder victims who never made the list at all? How do you suppose they feel.
These kind of lists tend to be subjective at best and while Mr. Taavel’s death was a tragedy that should never have happened, for reasons both moral and bureaucratic, it had less of an impact on the lives, or quality of life, of the majority of H.R.M. residents than either the bus strike or the departure of Mayor Tapeworm.
it was a vote the people of halifax voted just cause you don’t agree with the result is no reason to whine and bitch about it. That’s what democracy is.
well o.p., it could have been worse. it could have kelly riding the bus and got mad at the service and killed the dude. but, fucking seriously, did it affect your whole day that much. you should be more concerned the obama got re-elected. and we all know who bum boy harper has for a friend.
yep, gonna be another 4 very interesting years, stateside. do i hear the sound of impeachment? too bad we don’t have that in canada. a pity you say?
Also the metro transit strike which took top spot effected a lot of people and their everyday lives. The murder, while being a terrible thing, overall did not affect a lot of people in their happy little bubble. Therefore it seems obvious metro transit would get more outcry
Fuck you, it was a vote. Live with it. It doesn’t have to reflect how horrible his death was.
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Ivan, are you a relation of the good Cpl. Topham in your avatar?
(Great pic btw)
Thank you, Vastie. No relation, but my Dad was a jumper and the story of Fred Topham was a major part of the narrative of my growing up years.
Next year try campaigning to get your particular favourite murder victim voted for.
I think the bus strike was the worst thing this year by far….
certainly not it occurring but rather us caving like limp-dicks and paying them off to boot.
That was a phenomenal travesty.
Because he was such a prominent fixture in some of the public’s eye (I personally had never heard of the guy before…) a definite honorable mention should be by his name, but to single him out over the other deaths… some of which aren’t even fully accounted for…
is a little insulting to the other families.
I’m just glad that stupid sign painting didn’t make any mark.
The senility around here tends to lean towards the recent and not the big picture.
i must’ve missed this category, i think it was a poor choice for a vote. a person was murdered, i don’t think it was appropriate
As has been mentioned, it’s a very subjective list. How do you compare a murder to anything? What about the death of Mellissa Peacock? Lists are lists, take them with a grain of salt.
Ivan. I like your style.
Ivan I knew a guy that jumped out of perfectly good airplains.Unfortunately for him he went “splat”and fortunately for him, lived.He broke just about every bone in his body.The CF didn’t boot him out after that.
I have a lot of respect for men like your Dad.
that man didn’t murder him because he was a gay activist. He murdered him because he was a psycho that killed the first guy who got in his way. This has been established.
The guy i saw get shot outside my window in 2006 didn’t even get a passing media glance. From you or anyone else.
Not really totally related to your bitch but this just irritates me. Murder only matters when it’s someone important, is basically what you’re saying. And if it IS someone important, then popular legend insists that this is why they had to die.
when this wasn’t the case at all.
What about the thousands of kids every year who go to bed hungry or get the shit kicked out of them by parents or get molested by someone they trust?
i guess they’re just not important. The fact that we can’t get a lid on that shit is way more tragic than ONE death or a goddamned bus strike.
lots of people suffer. Spread your indignation just a little thinner..
What??? I can’t believe you could even vote on such a thing.
Gracias Senor, and back at ya. >: )
Thanks Boru. Me Old Dad made his first jump at 18 and saw more than a few guys “thunder in” in his career. He’s now happily retired and when he’s not flying his powered parachute ultralight, he’s sitting next to his wood stove with my Mom, a cat and sundry neighborhood dogs who come to visit.
I don’t even believe murder matters even if it is someone important …literally because in my view, what is important to you or others …. is often not even of any interest to me & many others.
Secondly IMO murder mostly matters to those directly involved with the deceased … to those people it matters a great deal ,& for you who will immediately jump up & write …but it matters to the police. I say the oportunity to get recognized, promotion etc is the only reason it matters to the police & of course to get the murderer off the streets, after all more murders means more work, a freaking out ‘public’ that pisses off the the higher ups & they start breathing down the cops necks to “do something about it”
Now I see a list like that as being more rightly about problems that affect the many, the so called public. IF a bridge had fallen into the harbour or some other action had effected tens of thousands of HRM residents it would also rated higher than the senseless death of Mr Traavel.
You’re taking your anger out in the wrong place, it wasn’t the Coast who decided this. I was a little confused and saddened by this too but it was a vote. They printed what Halifax had to say, which is their job. Too bad if you don’t like it, it was the opinion of the people, even if it was an upsetting one.