Landlord recently replaced all the plumbing fixtures—faucets, shower head, toilet—with the low-flow type. I'm all for conservation, and even though I can now piss harder than my shower sprays and sometimes have to flush the toilet six times after a night of donairs and hot wings, I'm happy to do my part. But why the kitchen sink? Why the bathtub?? It takes the same amount of water to fill the sink whether it fills in one minute or five. What is the use of me standing there getting carpal tunnel syndrome holding a pot under the faucet until there is finally enough water in it to cook my spaghetti? How is the environment served by me turning on the water and going off to have a wank while I wait 20 minutes for the tub to fill? I tell you, this conservation business has gone too far. —Mildly annoyed

The new Halifax Central Library has a funding of $57.6 MILLION and yet now they're posting ads ASKING FOR DONATIONS so that they can BUY BOOKS? FOR THEIR NEW LIBRARY? Like, what the fuck—did they spend 57.6 MILLION DOLLARS building a giant new library and then realize, “OH FUCK, we forgot that we need books.” Like, what the hell is that? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? —YOU CAN'T READ A BUILDING DUMBASSES

Almost everything is frozen, pretty much nothing actually comes from Nova Scotia (despite saying that it is on the menu), and yeah, some of that “Nova Scotian” seafood comes from a can. Some corners being cut is sadly expected, but charging top dollar for “local” seafood brought in from overseas is just an asshole move. We wouldn't have minded keeping your secrets if you actually treated any of us with respect, but since you seem to think we all owe you our lives for minimum wage and being yelled at in front of customers, we happily sprinkle the rodent droppings of knowledge around town to any tourist who will listen. —Summer job hell

My dog is a rescue with a horrible past and because of that, she hates other dogs. We are aware of that, that is why she is walked on-leash through on-leash parks. Your off-leash dog in said on-leash park charged at us. Had your dog been on a leash, I would have gone out of my way to avoid you because my dog is a known asshole but again your dog charged us. If I hadn't of dropped the leash, my dog would have have felt trapped and most likely would have bitten your dog or accidentally bitten me because that is what trapped/scared dogs do. You're lucky your dog just got a scare. I suggest, that either you teach your dog not to charge other strange dogs or that you walk the extra five minutes and bring your dog to the beautiful off-leash dog park that is full of well-socialized dogs that I would love to be able to walk my dog in but can't because even though she is an amazing, cuddly, loving dog, who I trust more than anything, she turns into an asshole when she is around other dogs. —.....you ruined my walk too

It wasn't you, baby, it was me. Maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems. Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano. All I know is I love you too much to walk away though. Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk. Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk? Told you this is my fault, look me in the eyeball. Next time I'm pissed, I'll aim my fist at the dry wall. Next time? There will be no next time. I apologize, even though I know it's lies. I'm tired of the games, I just want her back. I know I'm a liar. If she ever tries to fucking leave again, I'mma tie her to the bed and set the house on fire. —Just...

It blows my mind - how unaware people in Nova Scotia are of their surroundings. You can be in a grocery store and two people will literally bang in to you because they are so absorbed in their conversation that they don't notice you in front of them. You can be walking down the road and someone in front of you slows down in the middle of the sidewalk to look at something in a store window, blocking the entire right of way for everyone else. You can be driving down the road and the car in front of you is straddling two lanes doing 30 in a 70 zone while looking for street signs or trying to figure out where they are meanwhile cars are swerving to avoid rear ending their ass. Cars drive for miles and miles down provincial highways with turn signals on - oblivious to the designed to be annoying so you realize they are on "click click click click" and the flashing green light in your face. People drive for miles with no head lights on, you flash your lights to tell them that something is wrong and they don't even flinch. People cut you off, you lay on the horn and they don't even bother to give an apologetic wave or for that matter even notice they did something wrong. The list goes on and on and on. How self absorbed or simple do you have to be (the both are interchangeable in my opinion) to not notice the dangerous or otherwise obvious things going on around you? Is it a result of inbreeding? Flouride or arsenic in the water? Funny thing is that it translates to other less noticeable areas of the day to day life in the province. The government continues to screw us all over with over priced fees, taxes etc. that wouldn't even get considered in other parts of the country because they are so unaware of the shit that is going on around them. People make twice the salary in another province and accept it because they think "it's cheaper to live here" without even trying to do a realistic comparison or listen to anyone who presents information to the contrary. Wake the hell up all you dumb ass lazy and unaware people! —Wake Up!!!!!!

I am from India.. where we get healthcare in a jiffy. Its just impossible to see how doctors treat patients... I go to a doctor regarding a abscess. I do this after being treated like shit by doctors here who are ignorant and don't give a damn about patients. So.. the first walkin clinic I go to.. The doctor looks at it and does nothing.. tells me it will go away.. after a couple of weeks, I go to another walkin clinic. this doctor is aggressive in treatment, I thought so.. he got my blood work done and put on very high outdated antibiotics for 10 days.. nothing happens and my abscess is oozing pus. I go back to him and he puts me on the next stronger antibiotics.. and tell me If this does not work I have to see a infectious disease specialist. So, I ask him if I can see him and he is like, you can see any doctor here. I get pissed.. Why the fuck, can't we go to one doctor so that he is able to carry the treatment through. So finally - I go to a third doctor.. he openly tells me he has not seen anything like this and will refer me to a surgeon. I am waiting now for about 2 months for a referral and NOTHING.. How do people even live here beats me. Finally, I look up and see that my abscess is nothing but a ingrown hair and is now almost healed.. If this were a serious issue - how the hell in the world, can I expect my best interests be taken care of by the stupid healthcare system here.. Beats me... —A pissed person

There used to be something I looked forward to every week. Every Thursday I would eagerly grab the paper, read the horoscopes, and then swiftly turn to the events pages. Everything was listed! It was glorious! Lectures, Musical Events, Art shows! It was so lovely to not have to refer to facebook or to the internet to see what was going on in my city. I could sit outside on my lunch break, or spread the paper open on my kitchen table, a few of us hunched over it. I knew about the big shows, and the little one's too, the shows that my friends were playing off the beaten path, the monthly star-gazing meetings at the planetarium. There was something nostalgic about this ritual. And now it's gone. The website I have to refer to is not easy to navigate, and I think the couple of extra pages were worth publishing. Let me read about my city without staring at a screen! Please! —What to do?

Washington and Colorado - where, even with a Republican controlled house, senate, and governor - the people got together, created a ballot measure on legalizing Marijuana, and voted for it. The governor had to pass it by law - and the measure is now law. That's democracy, and that's how a democracy works. Can you imagine if the people had power like that here in Nova Scotia? In Canada? Well don't imagine too hard, it'll never happen in Canada. Canadians seem content to plod along with a system of government that allows for this perverse drug war mentality to continue. Perhaps because it nets so much cash for a very influential few - police and organized crime, brothers in the drug war profit machine. Federal ministers doing their best Nancy Reagan impression are the icing on the cake. Without democratic tools in this country to keep our legislature on track, recall legislation at all levels of government to weed out maniacal representatives; without an additional vote for the executive in addition to our local candidate, without the right to citizen sponsored ballot measures... We are forever at the behest of the same special interests in control now. Liberal, NDP, Conservative, no one is interested in evolving our democracy. The vice grip around out throats is only going to tighten unless Canadians demand change. And now. Your one X, once every five years, isn't a democracy. If this Marijuana issue doesn't light-up Canadians to our serious democratic deficiencies, I'm not sure what will. —Fed Up

It should have started in Halifax; not Liberia; those are decent people; they've gone through enough bullshit; in the name of the United Nation's interests. Halifax is nothing BUT bullshit. —Diabolus