Letters

Unclear cut I’m writing in response to Minister Charlie Parker’s letter in last week’s issue, “For the trees,” in response to Chris Benjamin’s “Our wasted forests” (February 7). Does the NDP, thus far in its mandate, speak “for the trees”? Minister Parker claims that the NDP has “heard loud and clear…that the status quo is […]

Treelines Apropos of Chris Benjamin’s sad piece, “Our wasted forests” (Feature, February 7), unfortunately the behaviour of the present NDP government represents the anthropocentric view of the world and life to which the overwhelming majority of our own species subscribes, whether explicitly so or not (in virtually all cases not). Until this changes, if it […]

Let’s not screw it up I heard a presentation about Toronto’s Regent Park revitalization project last year and it brought tears to my eyes (“Gottingen Terrace back from the dead,” Reality Bites by Chris Benjamin, January 31). The planners thought of everything! They were even instrumental in bringing new business into the community so that […]

CLOSE OPEN PENS Fabien Cousteau’s grandfather Jacques would roll over in his grave at the thought of his name being used by our NDP government to promote the development of open-pen salmon feedlots in our pristine oceans. Let’s hope that is not the case. Cousteau is a keynote speaker at a forum entitled “Feeding a […]

PARK IT Tim Bousquet’s article on Victoria Park (“The park that works despite itself,” Feature, January 10) needs some fact-tweaking but the take-away should be that a poorly used and dilapidated space was changed because non-profit groups, business and government cooperated to revitalize that park. And HRM has left the job uncompleted. When the Public […]

Ships stay here I rarely write letters to the editor, however the blog post “Will Halifax lose shipbuilding work” (Reality Bites by Tim Bousquet, December 20) got my attention this morning. I’ve written to you for two reasons: The politics behind it don’t seem realistic and Bousuqet has demonstrated a remarkable lack of understanding of […]

Be less PC Freedom of religious expression is guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” The “establishment clause” is merely a guarantee that no state religion (or its accompanying […]

City to-do Do you not think staff organized it this way to ensure new councillors and the mayor were not overwhelmed their first couple of meetings (“Do-nothing council,” Reality Bites by Tim Bousquet, December 6)? Last year they were all seasoned veterans and the chances that we would have a lot of newbies after the […]

Market values “It was unrealistic to think that a three-hour farmers’ market could immediately turn into a seven-day-a-week operation,” says Frank Schwartz (“Investors may be ‘toast,’” Reality Bites by Tim Bousquet, November 29). Finally, someone said it. When they first said that the Seaport Farmers’ Market was going to run all week, my first thought […]