Letters

Christianity can handle it Oh boy! Another Christmas, another round of “won’t someone think of the Christians” moral catastrophizing from the brave, stalwart folks out on the front lines, standing up to the “PC police” (Letters & Comments, December 19). Those darn PC police, they’re everywhere! Why, just the other day I had my head […]

Stroink injury The issue is not that Joachim Stroink is a nice guy but rather that he is an MLA who has not examined his own privilege and has no understanding of systemic race issues (“Stroink apologizes,” Reality Bites by Tim Bousquet, December 4). That is worrying, knowing he is making policy decisions. He said […]

Fluoride bouquet I grew up in West Island, Montreal in the 1950s/’60s without fluoridated water (“Halifax Water should stop poisoning us,” Voice of the City by Dana Landry, November 28). I’ve always had lousy teeth. If one were a Quebecer or from eastern Ontario at that time or earlier, there was a stereotype socially and […]

Avalon ad-dendum</font I wanted to take this opportunity to clarify a concern with our Start by Believing awareness campaign. In the opinion piece “Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s ads get the numbers wrong” (Voice of the City, November 21) writer Jane Kansas addresses a gender discrepancy in one of Avalon’s posters on Metro Transit buses. The […]

Our Buddington Here at the IWK, we really enjoyed reading your article about local clowns who have helped to bring much joy to our community (“Clown town,” Feature by Beth Brown, November 14). We couldn’t agree more about the healing power and therapeutic benefit of clowning—the art of clowning offers great opportunity for some meaningful […]

Public art dismay I was dismayed by Jane Kansas’s op-ed rant about “North is Freedom,” a public sculpture created by Doug Bamford, and installed in Halifax (“The monument at the north end library is a mess,” Voice of the City, November 7). She chose to write a violent, unfocused, art-hating diatribe instead of making the […]

Slight lines I can certainly understand and sympathize with how crappy it can be to have your view ruined, but the tone of the quotes and the article comes off as, “Evil Irving! How dare they do this!” (“Ships park here,” Reality Bites by Rana Encol, October 31). The truth is, the main protection you […]

Cycle snit In response to Ben Wedge’s opinion piece on walking in the October 24 edition (“I love to walk around town, but there are safety issues facing pedestrians,” Voice of the City): It is interesting that he failed to mention the hazards pedestrians face from rude and aggressive cyclists. I have experienced many close […]

Building blocks Tim Bousquet is a great reporter, and I understand the importance of outing the ways in which council is letting developer Joe Ramia off the hook in small but numerous ways (“Design review farce continues,” Reality Bites, October 17). But it’s getting a bit over-the-top—every little thing is exploited as an opportunity to […]

Orange peeled The provincial NDP was a rudderless ship under Darrell Dexter. The party ran to the middle, in what most viewed as a disengenuous ploy to retain power. That said, they did some good things: cap prices on generic drugs, expand dental care to older kids, waived ambulance fees to the poor and seniors, […]

Red (and orange and blue) bull Tim Bousquet’s article, “The Politics of Bullshit” (October 3), certainly contains elements of truth. A principal reason I’ve been working with Project Democracy on electoral and political reform is that the present systems in Canada are increasingly dysfunctional and incline politics towards zero-sum hyper-partisanship, with the kinds of results […]

Orange is the new blue Why is the NDP going to lose this election? Simple: they’re not the NDP. Consider the following: Where’s the provincial auto insurance company once promised to us? Why do they dismiss all suggestion that we should nationalize the greedy monopoly known as Nova Scotia Power? Why are they aiming for […]