Fossil fools I am visiting Halifax from Calgary, just reading your paper for the first time. There is a letter, “Fossil fuel flop” by Alison Petten, and I’m wondering if there’s any chance she could let us know which subsidy she is referring to when she writes about Justin Trudeau’s budget cutting subsidies to the […]
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Letters to the editor, April 6, 2017
Dartmouth debate I was happy to read Melissa Boute’s positive of review Picnic at Dart (“Picnic packs personality,” Food + Drink, March 9). The Picnic and its partner The Dart Gallery are just one of many businesses that have brought new life to downtown Dartmouth. With affordable rents, walkable streets and a welcoming business community, […]
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Letters to the editor, March 30, 2017
Behind the fray This is a personal rebuttal to the article in last week’s Coast on the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, which included me as a subject (“Fraying at the edges,” cover story by Jacob Boon). I should confirm that the ACNS does have a drop-in area, as the story mentions, and we are […]
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Letters to the editor, March 23, 2017
Talking trash I would be 100 percent fine with a “pay-as-you-throw” system on garbage to discourage people from throwing compostables and recyclables in the trash (“Recycling efforts are garbage,” The City by Chris Benjamin, March 16). A one percent tax decrease to offset the waste collection charge would work great, but then you have the […]
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Letters to the editor, March 16, 2017
Down with big weed No, you cannot have ethical weed grown by mega producers (“Ethical weed,” Voice of the City by Luke Johnstone, March 9). Given the choice of scrapping a $20 million crop of weed, which will trigger a sell-off of shares by shareholders, or rolling the dice on using banned pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. […]
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Letters to the editor, March 9, 2017
Start the decline Ron Scott is correct, but does not go sufficiently far (“Ocean notion,” Reply All, March 2). This may be simplistic but greenhouse gasses (mostly carbon dioxide) started to exceed the ability of global systems to absorb it shortly after WWII. Therefore in order to reverse that situation, we must reduce current human […]
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Letters to the editor, March 2, 2017
Ocean notion Scientists warn us that greenhouse gases are adversely impacting our planet’s oceans. Nova Scotia is surrounded by ocean. Our way of life is especially dependent upon it. It follows that adverse changes to the oceans threaten our well-being. Rising temperatures have already caused our sea levels to rise one foot in the last 120 […]
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Letters to the editor, February 23, 2017
Labour’s day I’m glad that Stephen McNeil’s government has decided to force a contract on the teachers—but not for the reason that the Nova Scotia Liberals have for ramming this legislation forward. I’m glad because it’s going to give labour a golden opportunity to take this to court. It is time to put the last […]
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Letters to the editor, February 16, 2017
American fear I think after all this hatred in the world, it is more true than ever that we need to start trusting people again, and we need to recognize every man, woman and child as human (“Afraid to pray,” The City by Aya Al-Hakim, February 9). We cannot turn to one religion or the […]
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Letters to the editor, February 9, 2017
Power marches on Women’s March organizer Dawn Ferris thinks Donald Trump’s administration will be hard on everyone other than wealthy white males (“Halifax women protest Donald Trump in solidarity with Washington,” The City by Rebecca Dingwell, January 19). She’s right, no doubt, but what Ferris doesn’t seem to realize is that this has almost nothing […]
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Letters to the editor, February 2, 2017
Building smarter Thank you councillor Lindell Smith! Your statement about the proposed five-storey, 28-unit development at Coburg Road and Larch Street was right on (“This week at City Hall.” The City by Jacob Boon, January 26). As you said: “If we’re basing our decisions on a document and policy when we don’t actually know the policies, […]
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Letters to the editor, January 26, 2017
Raising a stink I wish to address the issue of automatic annual raises for our city councillors (“Brampton delays Halifax council’s pay raise,” Reality Bites by Jacob Boon, posted January 20 at thecoast.ca). As a taxpayer it is insulting to me to watch year after year three percent, four percent and higher salary increases for […]
