PR flacks tried to label Halifax as a smart city. That was their slogan. Halifax: Smart City. Goes with pictures of young students reading heavy text books, gazing seriously at laptops and chatting animatedly with friends. Alas, no more. This sort of stuff happens in coffee shops and all the coffee shops in Halifax close at 10pm or earlier. Starbucks used to stay open till midnight. Sometimes they had little jazz quartets. Now it's all pubs, loud music, flesh markets. You can go to the gym 24 hours, why can't you drink coffee at night. I mean 10pm tons of people on Spring Garden Road and all the coffee shops are closed. Halifax: Stupid City. —Stu

I am a huge lover of The Coast! I moved from good old Cape Breton to the "big" city four years ago. It is by far one of my favourite things this city has to offer. Unfortunately I really enjoy reading them while laying down, seeing as I have a mini acrobat using my organs as punching bags .So can I make a suggestion? Staples! —I can't keep the pages together while horizontal

To the woman in shorts driving her full size motorcycle in the cycling lane, 4:30 pm, July 12, heading north on South Park Street: it is illegal to do so. Next time I will get your plate for the police. Ride safe. —Know the Rules of the Road

No human is perfect. We all make right and wrong decisions. On Saturday, July 8 I left my cell phone on bus 87 going to the bridge terminal. Since it was the weekend I had to wait until Monday to check lost and  found. Well I checked all week and I got the human who did the wrong thing. That was pretty low. —Phoneless 82-year-old

What a miserable city this place is! Enjoy it! I'm never coming back. —LOL at Halifax

Your mangled, half-consumed slices of pizza and takeaway cups of donair sauce don't below discarded in the main entrance, hallway, or staircase of our shared building. I'm glad you're getting out and having fun, but pick up after yourself. Yech. —South End Grump

Tonight's guest was academy award winner Marisa Tomei: "...she looks good for 50?" You look like shit for 30 you fat, bald, tribal tat, trucker hat mother fucker! Fuck you! Everyone's a critic. Get off your bar stool and get some respect. Have you even seen The Wrestler? No, you probably just watch real wrestling cause you're an idiot...fuck you dude. —co-Stan-za

It is annoying to me that I need to create an account to submit my "best of" nominations, and it's a separate account from my Coast account. I don't need all of these user accounts for things! —Slightly Inconvenienced Nominator

This province has tons of potential. It's being wasted by the inept governments that keep getting put in charge. Nova Scotia is one of the poorest provinces in Canada, and it's not going to get any better with McNeil in power. We are taxed heavily despite having low wages, the youth find better paying jobs in a recession province like Alberta, and the seniors are being treated like SHIT. How in the world can we live in 2017 and not have enough doctors for people? What is this, the stone ages? Seriously. McNeil is AWFUL. However, the ones to blame are you. You probably bitch, you moan, you complain—yet did you vote in the last election? His approval rating is around 30 percent, the last election had an all-time low turnout—that says it all. It says it all. This province is going to keep going down the dumps.

It's sad.

Nova Scotia has so much potential. It has a lot you can exploit and create lots of revenue from. From natural resources, to a humongous Halifax Harbour on top of a big natural harbour in Shelburne, to its attractive geographical position, and many more things. Yet here's big oligarchy corporations pinching pennies—hiring foreign workers to save money and slave them to death because they don't want to spend extra money to hire CANADIAN WORKERS. Listen, I like diversity, but there's a difference between being diverse and penny pinching to make foreigners slave so Irving can take a swim in their billions. These temp agencies, which are common all over the world, make life hell for people. They steal your money, they leave you hanging, and some of the workers treat you like you're a pile of trash. So much for trying to make Nova Scotia friendly.

Also, what the hell is wrong with the transportation system? It costs you an arm and a leg to go to the South Shore, to the Eastern Shore, to the valley, to Cape Breton, and to the beautiful Northumberland Strait. We need an effective transportation system in this province. We have LOTS of train tracks sitting on the ground, and rotting away because nobody wants to use them for anything. Imagine a passenger train system from Halifax to Sydney, or Halifax to Yarmouth, or Halifax to Windsor, etc. I guarantee you that you can get lots of people on those trains. I know people in the Valley drive into work every day, and they take a lot of time to do so. If they took a train, that travelling will be cut in half, and they'd be saving lots of money.

Nova Scotia. It has potential. It can be great. But it isn’t. And it's shit. Thanks, politicians. —Disgruntled Person in NS

Why do cyclers wear such ugly outfits? Like those tight golf-shirt type looking tops—the material looks so nasty and hot (I bet it really reeks in the pit area) and shiny spandex shorts up your arse.  Ew, grab a clue. You look like an idiot. —I Don't Brake for Arse Peddlers