I could have sworn that I heard the "T"ax word dropped numerous times in a recent speech by a certain politician in this lovely province of ours. Must have been a bad dream. —Bluenoser

"Please help us with the hydrants and drains", "Don't drive for a few days"... Now it's "don't walk anywhere for a few days" All because of snow and ice? AND, "don't expect any more $ for snow removal?" What DO our Municipal taxes ACTUALLY pay FOR, then? Get it done, and stop making excuses, mayor Savage & HRM council. —Uoughtabe Ashamed

when the buses are off the road, cabs aren't accepting fares, the city and police are telling people not to go out, for 24 hours. you think that all the business's and restaurants in the city might close? Nope. Instead some greedy, selfish owners decide to stay open, and make the staff come to work. clearly the health and safety of their employees do not matter. Is the reputation of your business always being open, more important than your staff, who could injure themselves in countless ways with conditions like that? clearly your answer is yes. To the customers of these business's, just a reminder you have a choice if you want to go out in bad conditions, the staff have no choice. Next storm, cook your own food, cause if I step in one more puddle, I might actually spit in your food. —storm day boycott

To the guy in the North Halifax Library computer room who started banging a chair against a cubicle in order to get two people to stop talking, and then called them "retards". First of all, they weren't talking very loudly. Second of all, being rude yourself in order to make other people stop being rude is hypocritical and childish. Grow up. —Rude is as rude does

I never would have dreamed that I would still be single at 54! I watched all my friends get married and I just remained alone! Why was I given such a bad hand?! And why can't I get a date anymore?! Is it because I'm old?! I usually ask out men that are around my age! There was only two younger guys that I asked out in the past 5 years! One was 37 and the other was 26! Of course both said no! So I started asking out old guys who are old like me or even older! They say no too! I even resorted to online dating and I emailed 42 men within the first week I had an account and only one, ONE, man replied! ONE out of 42! I went on one date with him and then I never heard from him again! I was so happy to meet this man so when I didn't hear from him again, I punched a hole in my wall after getting roaring drunk! I can't even get a man's attention! And sex?! What's sex?! I don't even know what it feels like anymore it's been so long!!! I think the last time I got the D it was still the 20th century!! How did that even happen when I am constantly letting men know that I am interested in them?! Not one of them reciprocates the sentiment! My friend bought me a vibrator for my 52nd birthday and I haven't used it once! A vibrator is not the same as a MAN!! I spent this past Valentines Day fixated on the couples who were going out to dinner! Then that night, I laid in my bed wondering how many people were currently having sex while I lay alone with my no-dick-inside vag which has probably closed itself up since nothing has gone in there since the 90s!!! Will I ever have that Love thing?!! Will I????!!!! —54 year old woman who needs a man stat!

I fucking hate you. You are a subpar human being, and you'll most likely amount to nothing because you can't get your fucking shit together. It's been five fucking years of this bullshit, isn't it about time you got over it??? ADD. depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, fucking being molested as a kid... There are 7.2 billion people in the world, you think you're the only one who's having to deal with that shit? And yet you don't see anyone else fucking up as badly as you always manage to. Stop making fucking excuses for yourself and stop playing the victim. It's taken four years for you to finish a program that should have taken less than two. You have no fucking friends, you're failing all your classes (FUCKING AGAIN), wasting money, and just generally being a waste of human flesh. You can't fucking manage to do anything right. You even killed your fucking fish. Fucking SIX YEAR OLDS manage to take care of fish, and here you fucking are in your early twenties fucking that up too. JFC, you'd think the 5 different kinds of medication you're fucking on would help you somehow become a productive member of society, but NOPE, that's not fucking enough to fix your amount of fucked up crazy. Please, just fucking stop all this shit. Your mom is eventually going to get tired of your shit just like everyone else, and THEN where will you be? Please, just... I just need to stop being like this. Please. —My Own Worst Enemy.

When i was just a wee lad, walking 10km to school uphill both ways, i remember how the city (not this one) would, after a significant snow-fall, pull out the industrial snow blower and drive down the curb line and chew up the banks and blow the snow onto the front yards (over the sidewalk). This morning i saw a line of dumptrucks, a 4-yard front-loader, a 2 yard front-loader. This seems like a tremendous waste of resource. They appeared to only be clearing the intersection corners. Why not invest in a cost saving resource? —Tired of watching my tax dollars wasted on outdated solutions

She is the kindest, most gentlest person I know, she loves ALL things and sees that ALL life has value even in the bad people. She'd never hurt a fly but people treat her like shit anyway. She's funny, smart, beautiful, and she has endured so much and has come so far and people still treat her like shit. A man did a very bad thing to her when she was very young and when she brought it up years later not many believed her and those that did told her she ruined everything. She never forgives and she never forgets and on countless times I've had to save her from myself but I'm no saint either, I've done bad things but I'm trying to do right by her, to be there by her side 100 percent whenever she needs me. She seems to have the worst luck in the world because if something can go wrong for her it will and because the way she is even a small thing becomes blown out of proportion. So why do you hate her? You know what her problems are and yet whenever she comes to you for advice you talk down at her and make her hate herself even more, she deserves your loves, she is one of the most hardest working women I've ever had the pleasure of knowing and she doesn't deserve ANY of the hate you have towards her. She's never done anything wrong to anyone, she doesn't start rumors, she doesn't talk about anyone behind their backs, and she's never wanted anyone dead and yet people still treat her like shit. Stop treating her like she doesn't know how to do her job because she does, oh does she ever, probably more than you. I know I don't deserve her but I'm damn lucky to have such a amazing woman like her and I'm going to make damned sure that if anything happens to her, people will know her story. She deserves your love, not your hate. —All she needs is love.

How can you make up all these lies and still be open? I have a piece of paper that isn't worth a gosh darn and unless I move out West or up North I'll probably never be able to do anything meaningful and worthwhile with it. I am now 15K in debt with nothing to show for it. I have talked to so many others who have been where I have and they all say the same thing, they have a piece of paper but it isn't worth jack all. You don't even teach the proper rules or anything really important, it's like Kindergarten for College Students —I hate you so much

I hate my life so much, where it's going or that should be not going. I lost my job recently for the dumbest reason and while I did have an interview today for a job doing something I know I'll love and I'm sure I'll get it but after talking to someone about said interview I'm now starting to doubt myself. I'm really good with kids but am I actually? I be there for them on a personal level but can I be a teacher? Am I even smart enough? Now I feel I should quit while I'm ahead, I have a diploma that isn't worth anything in a career field I would like to work in and I'm not smart enough for University. What's the point? I can be a great friend but I don't think I could ever be a great teacher and there's no careers out there for being able to be friendly so why bother... I just don't know what to do —Is this the end?