Letters

Climate: Endgame Looking for heroes? I have some to recommend. They are the young people who recently marched, in Halifax and around the world, for what should be their birthright—a supportive climate in which to grow up and fulfill their promise. Those young people left school on a Friday, not to start their weekend fun […]

These are the letters and comments from the print edition.

More NS film jobs An open letter to Geoff MacLellan, Nova Scotia’s minister of business, I am beyond frustrated with a number of your responses to questions posed by Tim Houston in the legislature this week. Your ill-informed commentary illuminates the fact that this provincial Liberal government has no real concept of how the film […]

The “average” lie Caora McKenna’s story on city council spending decisions repeats the convenient-to-quote fiction that the average home’s tax bill is $1,979 (“Money for tree and old people’s knees,” The City section, March 21). Council just approved a new tax rate which, combined with the province’s archaic property valuation system, will increase the tax […]

Saintly spelling In your issue of March 14, which covered St. Patrick’s Day, I see St. Patty’s Day is mentioned a few times. But it should be St. Paddy’s. Please correct this, as it is offensive to the Irish. I am not Irish but have been admonished about this by someone who is! —D.A.Burns, Halifax […]

Living with Airbnb “The first point of a city is to live in it, the second is to visit”—so says a spokesperson for the city of Amsterdam, as quoted in the Guardian this week. The article is about rental homes in Amsterdam, where the proliferation of Airbnbs is apparently ruining life for the city’s residents. […]

I knew I was right! For older readers, I’d like to bring them up to date on an issue I had with your paper way back when Theo Moudakis was exhibiting cartoons at the Economy Shoe Shop. The cartoons were not published in any newspaper because they were considered too controversial. But this was supposedly […]

A better Canada Dear political leaders, I am a proud Canadian, but I would like to see a better Canada than we have today. Here are some ideas for how to make Canada a greater country. You need to get rid of the outrageous retirement package for MPs. They should receive the same retirement packages […]

Help the seniors The ACE Team Network (Advocates for the Care of the Elderly) is alarmed by the worsening state of health care, especially for the most vulnerable Nova Scotians. Some say our health care resembles that of third world countries. What is happening in Cape Breton is frightening. From the many media reports on […]

Tackle the stadium If trust in public officials is at an all-time low, it is because of deals like the CFL stadium. When Halifax city council met privately with the Canadian Football League’s promoters and agreed to be bound by the promoters’ non-disclosure terms, they gave the promoters too much control over the deal. The […]

Rally redux On January 31, The Coast published an opinion piece called “White supremacy in Halifax,” written by Alex Mcnab and published in the Voice of the City section. The piece, centred around a personal telling of a rally hosted in Halifax by the People’s Party of Canada, was hateful in nature and does not […]