Letters

To the editor, For some time now there has been much talk about young offenders, especially ones who steal vehicles. Recently on the news I heard people saying that after a youth steals a car, their parents should be arrested! I wonder—do these people have teenagers? Do they know how difficult it is to control […]

To the editor, Bruce Wark’s editorial (“Shared vision,” May 11) got me thinking…when is the public going to remove its collective head from its ass and realize that the main purpose for NASA (and space exploration in general) is to serve as a cover for weapons research and development? Do you really think government gives […]

Dear NWTBDFW,Re: Lowering the flagNice soapbox. Did you even read V.L. Israel’s letter? No mention of lives being less valuable, no mention of not respecting our troops sacrifice. In fact, what is mentioned is that we have more valuable ways of supporting our troops than lowering the flag. The important point you missed was that […]

To the editor, Wondering what the real motive is behind this “all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it” from city hall (“Bin there, done that,” April 20)? It’s economics folks, plain and simple. They don’t give a shit about you, but they definitely care about tourists and the […]

Wondering what the real motive is behind this ‘all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it’, economics folks, tourism, plain and simple, they don’t give a shit about you the haligonian but they definetly care about tourists and the money they bring, they have to create the illusion that […]

Wondering what the real motive is behind this ‘all of a sudden we have a litter problem and we care about it’, economics folks, tourism, plain and simple, they don’t give a shit about you the haligonian but they definetly care about tourists and the money they bring, they have to create the illusion that […]

To the editor, I was surprised by Mike Fleury’s rosy-spectacled comments about wind power in Reality Bites (April 20). It seems Mr. Fleury is quite happy to buy into the current “greenwash” around alternative energy that our provincial government and Nova Scotia Power are selling the public these days. Recently, the provincial government has been […]

To The Coast, Man, I never write in to reply to editorials, but Kyle Shaw’s “The mess is the message” (April 20) made me think. Starting from scratch on global warming is exactly what we need. There have been so many conflicting predictions about what global warming has, is or is about to do. Look […]

To the editor, While I was surprised by the fact that the Canadian media largely ignored Stephen Harper’s discontinuation of the One-Tonne Challenge (how do you cancel a challenge?) and took a blase attitude toward Earth Day (April 22) this year, I was downright shocked that the same went for The Coast. Where are your […]

To the editor, Most years, the Public Gardens opens on the long weekend in May and closes on Remembrance Day, limiting public access to the city’s most beautiful park. Instead, I suggest the city close the Public Gardens with the first snowfall after November 11 and open as soon as conditions permit in April. We […]

Dear Mike Fleury, I like the Carnival idea for the Spring Garden and Queen lot, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use. Level off the big rubble piles and fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, a lounging-on-lawn-chairs area, beach […]

To the editor, Thank you for focusing your April 13 issue on the Spring Garden and Queen empty land (“Field of dreams,” Mike Fleury). Together with the empty Community College space on the other side of Spring Garden, these large tracts of land once represented the livelihoods of the small businesses around them. Families visiting […]