Letters

Dear HRM and Canadians everywhere, I don’t even know where to begin. My understanding of the CBC lockout was that the union was threatening a walk-out. In a pre-emptive strike, CBC management locked them out just ahead of the walk-out deadline. Just because someone beat you to the punch doesn’t give you the right to […]

To the editor, I feel compelled to write to you on behalf of the merchants, property owners and residents of Quinpool Road and the surrounding area. The “Neighbourhood watch” article that was written in your September 1 Back to School issue has ruffled many feathers and created disappointment and frustration on the street. We very […]

To the editor, Your recent Back to School edition (September 1) includes a fascinating photograph of some students gathered at the gates of a concentration camp, grinning at the camera like a gaggle of tourists at Disneyworld. It appears to be advertising some kind of a cultural literacy course for Saint Mary’s. I’m not sure […]

Dear Coast, OK, I can’t take it any more. Every 12 months or so The Coast runs an article about a non-existent repertory cinema in Halifax and reports on how they’re not doing (like Shayla Howell’s September 1 feature “Tarnished rep”). Why isn’t there a repertory cinema in Halifax? The answer is simple: there isn’t […]

To the editor, In regards to last week’s article “To have and hold on,” in grade 7 I moved to a southern Ontario city and took so much crap for being from NS—from peers, parents and teachers—it scarred me for life. I used to wonder how much shit these people could get into if another […]

Dear Coastals, Sunday was my first wedding anniversary. After waking up to the realization I really may be an adult now, my wife and I had an incredible breakfast at a swanky downtown restaurant (name witheld to avoid the image being one of those consumerist trendsetter types). Following that, we took the ferry to Alderney […]

To whom it may concern, I’m a member of the Quinpool Road Mainstreet Business Association. I speak for many of the merchants along Quinpool Rd. when I say I was angry and hurt by the horrific article in last week’s Back to School edition (“Neighbourhood watch”). Many of us are regular advertisers in your paper […]

To the editor, Regarding the closure of the YWCA Women’s housing program I was going to try and take the high road with this, but I’m just too damned pissed off to be the bigger person. YWCA Board of Directors, Community of Social Services and those commercial bastards that are tearing down the YWCA and […]

Dear Coast, All summer long the eyes and ears of residents and visitors to Point Pleasant Park have suffered as a long deep trench has been dug all the way around the Park on Franklyn Street and then down the hill to the new sewage pumping station on the North West Arm. I suppose it’s […]

Dear Mr. Wark, Congratulations on your fine editorial regarding the CBC lockout (“Tough lock” August 18). This is a real Canadian tragedy. In that same issue, Lezlie Lowe’s “Time machine” article also affected me; and “On the line” by Stephanie Domet, with her very personal reaction on the lockout’s change to her life, saddened me. […]