Letters

Upon reading Liz Feltham’s column, I was of the opinion that it seemed a bit incomplete. She mentions that restaurant owners are having a hard time finding good servers due to a labor shortage. Logically, wouldn’t the solution to this be to actually raise a server’s wages above minimum wage? If minimum wage plus tips […]

Upon reading Liz Feltham’s column, I was of the opinion that it seemed a bit incomplete. She mentions that restaurant owners are having a hard time finding good servers due to a labor shortage. Logically, wouldn’t the solution to this be to actually raise a server’s wages above minimum wage? If minimum wage plus tips […]

Just want to say kudos on two of your recent cover photos. I loved Terry Arsenault in the Santa suit by Kate O’Connor — I hardly recognized the super Sam’s salesman without a smile! And Shannon Hennigar’s shot of Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King is gorgeous. (It helps to start with two pretty people.) Besides […]

To the editor, I see the nuclear-phobic “Edge of destruction” warranted cover-page treatment in the Dec 15 issue, over “Oil rigging.” Which of the following is most likely to effect the health and welfare of HRM residents: the microscopic possibility of a nuclear accident during an infrequent visit by a nuclear-powered ship, or the continual […]

To the editor, Regarding the Dec 22 letter, “Machine green,” I used to be a lifelong, well-known NDP activist (to admit my biases, I was also the provincial organizer for the federal Greens in the 2004 campaign in NS, the official agent for Michael Oddy in his recent by-election effort and the Green who nominated […]

To the editor, Offering a bribe isn’t a real crime (though it’s written as one). It becomes real once the other party accepts it. That’s robbery of taxpayers’ money. Both parties become guilty of conspiracy against the citizens at that moment. Let’s say our city councillors did report these guys at the time. What would […]

To the editor, I’m just writing in response to Matthew Campbell’s letter (“Canadian politics 101,” Dec. 15). It’s totally biased and doesn’t help much with voting. All that he says about the Conservatives is negative crap and mostly great things about the Liberals. I’ve read enough about politics, and all three parties are so crappy […]

To the editor, Oxford, sweet Oxford. I have been plotting my escape for some time. Since 2001. I regularly depart to Halifax for relief (desperately hoping to move there, or at least closer, as my job improves). And like the Hunsleys who wrote a letter in this week’s Coast (“Oxford defined,” Dec 15), I don’t say […]

To the editor, I am writing to you in defence of Mike Drake at Strange Adventures and the accusation in the Nov. 24 issue that he has an “endearing curmudgeonly streak.” I looked up curmudgeonly on dictionary.com to ensure I was up-to-date on the definition of this slight (I also looked up the word “slight” […]

To the editor, In the recent leader’s debate, Conservative leader Stephen Harper, when speaking about the challenges of governing this country, said that “Canada is a big, empty country.” It struck me as an odd thing to say, but somehow appropriate for the leader of our country’s right-wing party. I know what he meant; that […]

We have the receipts. Please go to http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html (Page S8987-S8998 of September 20, 2002 Congressional Record). While Saddam Hussein is “performing” in protective custody and Ossama bin Laden has free reign in drumming up business for the Military Industrial Complex, Bechtel (and the bin Ladens) have been given US contracts to rebuild Iraq ( see […]

THE BUSH “OILIGARCHY” WAS NOT LYING ABOUT WMD by Joseph Morales Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts. Please go to http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html (Page S8987-S8998 of September 20, 2002 Congressional Record). It would do well for you to memorize the respective symptomologies because privateers, like Bechtel, may have secretly recovered the remnant […]