Letters

Climate challenge I must respond to Try_The_Truth’s letter (“Hell or high water,” Reply all, November 21). This attitude of throwing one’s hands up in the air and saying “oh well, making people care is too hard so I guess we’re all done for,” is so fucking frustrating. Activists have known for years that many people […]

The printing press is a strange, wonderful machine. You take a roll of blank paper called a web—which is sort like a toilet paper roll, only made of newsprint and so big it’s moved around by forklift—and feed the leading edge into the press to begin an elaborate journey. With the unspooling roll trailing along […]

Hell or high water “The scientific evidence that those properties are more at risk…is there, but the desire to be on the waterfront still exists,” says realty expert Baird Allen (in Nicoletta Dina’s “Harbour rising,” October 31, 2019). “That mindset hasn’t changed yet and it’s debatable when and whether it really will at some point […]

Exposing the truth I couldn’t help but notice a few letters to the editor that were well-laced with the usual Hasbara-peddled propaganda and the negative portrayal of the victimized Palestinians (letters collected under the headline “Good call, NDP,” Reply all, October 31). Allow me to respond with some factual information on the colonial cruelty committed […]

Crown posse The so-called leader of this province has been against all types of unionized public servants of NS. He has bullied the teachers and the medical services completely into submission. Now he has dealt a blow to the Crown lawyers of Nova Scotia. I truly support the lawyers. Here is a fine group of […]

Good call, NDP Terminating the candidacy of anyone who’s been nominated by a party’s members is not something a political party does casually. The nominated Dartmouth candidate who Judy Haiven refers to in her recent Coast letter was removed due to views she held which she later acknowledged to have been inappropriate, hateful and hurtful, […]

NDP mistake In last week’s City article “Pushing beyond the glass ceilings of BIPOC political representation,” writer Julia-Simone Rutgers raises the good point: in all four Metro ridings, there has only ever been a “smattering” of racialized candidates, and none ran for the major parties in Monday’s federal election. But one recent incident was left […]

The protest vote It’s great to see young folks around the world standing up to protest the environmental destruction of our planet (“Young people aren’t fucking around with the climate,” The City section story by Mallory Burnside-Holmes, September 19 ). As a teen in 1970, I was inspired by David Suzuki to get involved in […]

I stand with her As a parent, this is what I’m witnessing in the picture people are painting about my daughter’s participation in the Macdonald Bridge protest. I wasn’t on the bridge that day because of personal health issues in my life, but what I am seeing in the days afterward is people looking for […]

Dumb stadium Dear Mike, Andy and Steve, How dare you? I could use all that wool you are using to pull over the public’s eyes in my next granny knitting project. Instead, I will use my grandmother voice to express my extreme dismay and displeasure at your latest shenanigans. Our grandchildren, including yours, deserve better. […]

Election readiness I am a student studying conservation biology, learning about the consequences of human action on our climate and biodiversity every day. I am lucky that I am educated on the urgency of this climate emergency, however, not everyone understands what is at risk and what must change to evade this crisis. In a […]