Letters

Rent revolution Everyone I know seems to say “Tough luck, we’re all struggling” when we talk about out-of-control rent in this city (“What is affordable housing, anyway?” Reality Bites article by Caora McKenna, posted June 24). If we all came together and realized that it doesn’t have to be that way, we could make things […]

Grading school I read a post about how parents were feeling lost in regards to their children with learning disabilities, and how they felt there wasn’t enough support within their schools. The sort of problems we hear so much about these days in regards to the NS school system. I could relate to the learning […]

RE: RE: abortions I found your abortion experiences issue very interesting (“RE: my abortion story” was the central feature in last week’s special issue devoted to the topic). I had an experience in 1970. I suddenly began to bleed and I was not having a period, so I went to the nearest ER—at the old […]

Stop those trains The feds recently announced a $47-million port infrastructure plan that will send mile-long freight trains, 24 hours a day, through the south end to replace container trucks downtown. Halifax Port Authority president Karen Oldfield, and politicians Waye Mason and Andy Fillmore, have adopted an incredibly cagey manner of not talking about what […]

I have not had an abortion. I am not a doctor. I am a white woman with immigrant parents who is a settler in Halifax. I benefit from a healthcare system that is optimized for people who look and speak like me. But when I was around 17 years old, I often repeatedly punched myself […]

Stop the bike hate Upon unleashing the Quinpool Road closure this spring, Halifax has asked its residents to cooperate and find alternate means of commuting into the downtown core. Propaganda has asked us to consider the bus or active transport such as cycling. The flaw with this thinking is the outright hatred among many Haligonian […]

Now we are 26 Hypothesis: There’s enough cool shit happening in Halifax to fill a new newspaper. That’s where The Coast began its journalism experiment back in 1993, and this issue marks the paper’s 26th anniversary. (Happy birthday old friend, the improbable ride continues.) Many of the stories in this anniversary issue fit a theme […]

  The kids have this Peter Martyn is right in his “Stop scaring kids” letter, our hope for the future does lie in rebellious “kids” (Reply all, May 15). However, he misses the mark on every other part of his argument. Starting from personal experience, no students who participated in the school climate strike in […]

Stop scaring kids Last week’s cover story, about the need for Nova Scotia to get off fossil fuels, opens with a scene of Halifax students protesting human-caused climate change, joining students from all over the world in the May 3 protest (“A just transition,” by Laura Cutmore). Many of those who ditched classes did so […]

Ally advice As a PhD student at Dal, I really enjoyed reading Danielle Gaitor’s articulate and personal piece on inclusion (“More than just a diversity initiative,” Voice of The City, April 18). As a white female Canadian I am more privileged than most, and not able to personally identify with most of Gaitor’s challenges. Still, […]

Halifax is garbage at garbage cans Hello to “A member of the Halifax community,” who wrote the letter in last week’s Coast about the overflowing garbage bin with the garbage all mixed together (“Recycling far from home,” Reply all). The bin you were referring to is a single bin where, yes, all the garbage, compostables, […]