Tim Bousquet: Yes, I do actually give a shit! Just reading your “False reflection” editorial (December 31, 2009), I do agree with you to some extent, that people in general have some difficulty coming to grips with the implications of climate change and actually doing something about it. Individually, we feel we are doing “what […]
Letters
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That name again is Mr. Plow
I understand that at Christmas it is hard to shell out $50 for a parking ticket. But Halifax is not the only city who has a winter parking ban. All of Canada has! How many of you whiners have driven or ridden in a snowplow? I have ridden a few times, through snow, blowing wind, […]
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Free parking is not your right
I support the winter parking ban on Halifax streets. The streets are there for the efficient and safe movement of motor vehicles and bicycles. The streets are not there for the free and unrestricted use by Haligonians to park their motor vehicles. It is not a birthright that a Haligonian with a motor vehicle be […]
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City tweets beat all
I have to say: I love Tim Bousquet’s city council meeting live tweets. They are strangely amusing and, well, the best coverage I have seen of council meetings. You’d have to use brute force to make me watch the proceedings on Channel 10, but the Coast Twitter feed is perfect.—Graham MacDougall, Halifax
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Scream shame
I am writing in response to an article that was published a couple of weeks ago by Lezlie Lowe regarding a vigil being held at the Spring Garden Road library (“Screaming mad,” News, December 3). Jean Steinberg, despite her claims, did not invent, create or otherwise in any way contribute toward the notion of having […]
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Hypocritical Uteck
Councillor Sue Uteck: I find it interesting that you are able to condemn the winter parking ban tickets issued last Sunday evening as a “tax grab.” And yet less than a week earlier you were on CBC radio promoting the new HRM “tax reform,” a proposal designed to lower your own taxes, and raise taxes […]
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Will be parking it somewhere else
This full-time parking ban is absolutely outrageous in this time of economic turmoil. This city is so ass-backwards with the way it runs its day-to-day operations and with the way it treats its citizens. Fifty dollars for parking on the street! Where are people supposed to put their cars? Up their asses? The city’s public […]
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Winter wonderland
I think it’s absolutely wonderful that the HRM has begun issuing winter ban parking tickets, particularly on a rainy Sunday evening—the first night of the ban —when no snow removal efforts were underway. I was under the impression that the ban began on December 15, as were most people I had spoken with regarding this […]
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Taxing HRM
Tim Bousquet’s “Why everyone loses under the city’s property tax plan” (December 10) is an excellent article and those who read it will understand much about the tax reform plan and why it can’t possibly work. My first question is: why haven’t the powers that be requested information on tax reform from similar-sized areas, so […]
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Bruce Fisher on The Coast’s tax reform analysis
The Coast’s recent “opinion” piece on the tax reform issue contains a number of errors and misleading statements that need clarification. Property Tax Reform started not because of a south end Halifax lobby effort, but because the existing tax system was not serving its citizens well. As has been well-documented, the value of one’s home […]
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Every day is Love Day
I love your “Love the Way We Love” section. It inspires me and since I have discovered it, I find myself looking for others everywhere I go who might just be carrying groceries for a stranger or holding hands with a new date. I’m in love with the philosophy of this section of The Coast […]
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Yes Funswick
Calling New Brunswick No-Funswick (Events listings, November 26)? Classy. Anyone who can’t see the hidden beauty in your neighbouring province is just plain lazy. —Kyle Cunjak, Halifax