So, the Nanny State in it's unending moral superiority has decided that it should be illegal for adults to purchase and consume flavored tobacco products, as of July 5th 2010.

It was already illegal for children to purchase and consume tobacco products, so this new law does nothing but ban a product in a way that would have made the prohibitionists proud.

Instead of strengthening educational programs for children and enforcement policies against retailers that allow the purchase of tobacco products by children - which is the real problem here - our comrades in government and various lobby groups figure it is just easier for them to get rid of them all together.

Now if youth want to smoke they will simply move on to the myriad of other tobacco products that are still, and after July 5th, will still be available. Is it the plan to ban those now too?

More likely, youth will simply move on to illegal tobacco products that are much more affordable if they want to smoke.

Congratulations!

Perhaps now that same fervent mindset which led to this law will be applied to something useful, such as eradicating obesity, or reducing adverse medical events - both of which kill upwards of 17,000 Canadians each year. —Dartmouthy

It had a funny way of sneaking up on me.

To love you now is to lose you forever, but If I contain it, I think my heart will explode.

I don't like this unexplainable feeling of love. I tried denial; rationalizing the feelings from when we first met as a silly crush, assuming the feelings were there just because you actually seemed to care for my well-being, entertained the thought of just being in love with how you made me feel.

Now that there's a possibility of us (circumstance wise), I'm only becoming frustrated with my heart because I know there is no possibility for us (reality wise). You know too much about me, and I'm so entrenched in the friend zone, that to share my feelings would be alienating and awkward. It's gotten to the point where I can barely look at you without a twinge of sadness. I want to be with you every moment I can, and every moment I am I can only regret I can't be closer.

Is this love? I wrote a Love here a few months ago. Apparently it should have been a Psst... Those feelings have only gotten stronger. I wish I could linger in this feeling of bliss, this love. But it's false hope.

This is a bitch at my own heart. This is a bitch at you. This is a bitch because I'm so in love it hurts. —Friend Zone

I love this city, but I really hate you. Thank God I'm moving. —HQ

To the guy in the corner store on Victoria Road: I didn't come out of the rain to be put in my place!. I am an intelligent, opinionated, pushy and radical lesbian... and damn proud!!! —Woman on the Bike

Ok so me and 3 friends were walking down Southpark St last Thursday in the direction of SGR when this mother come along with her two-seat stroller and decides to hit a bump in the sidewalk... no big deal if YOUR CHILD IS BUCKLED INTO THE SEAT!

The baby come flying out and smashes his face on the pavement. How hard you ask? well I didn't even see the kid fall out, my friends did, I heard the sound of the skull cracking on the pavement and it sounded disgusting!

This was horrible, lets be honest if you cannot even buckle your child up next time remember to tell your man to wrap it up. —The guy who didn't want to see baby brains on the side walk... gross

Why?

I have lived in over 40 different rental properties and in 80% of them living conditions are made intolerable by women who feel the need to slam doors and stomp their feet.

Why is it necessary? Are you announcing to the entire building when you enter and exit your apartment? Are you all looking for attention, is that it? Is it just pure malice? If I'm awake then everybody's awake kind of thing?

Is it depth perception? It seemed to me it was not this bad in the past. Perhaps something in our diet is affecting the depth perception of women?

The foot stomping is really quite incredible, a 90 pound woman usually makes about 105-120db when walking, where a 350 pound man might make 45db? What's the deal? Damage from high heels? Why does it affect all of you? It feels like you all hate men and do not want us to have any peace and you will take every opportunity to deprive men of their needs. (mainly sleep and a peaceful domicile.

I just don't get it. Please explain it to me. Please try to stop. This very issue has nearly driven me insane on several occasions, nearly into a murderous rage. It could ruin my life as I will never be able to afford a house of my own.

Earplugs (+over ear protectors) do not stop door slamming and foot stomping. Most ear protection only covers down to about 20Hz. Earplugs don't help when the walls and floor shake.

Do you not understand that you are being highly inconsiderate? I can only assume that you all do and are pure evil beings sent from hell. —WhyWhyWhy?

To the lady barging down the street with her 6 year old daughter hitched and muzzled into the industrial child harness - who, using all her might, courageously kept her grasp on the huge, padded handle / leash that is basically soldered into this contraption - what is wrong with you?

What is wrong with the world? Why is this little girl, who seems to be walking normally, wearing a grapnel device like she is a fucking raging komodo dragon?

If your answer is "because she is out of control"; why? Why can't you control your 6 year old? It looked like the same strappy, tackle equipment they restrain and drag a lost polar bear out of the streets of some fishing town with. —Baffled Person

Why do you protest the G20, G8 ? Would you prefer that the powerful nations did not communicate openly? Would you prefer no communication? War?

Capitalism is our system, it is not perfect, but here in Canada unlike East Africa you likely wont die from the flu, you you wont get a 4000 year prison sentence for an act of homosexuality in public, and you certainly have the right to protest... Why not hope Canada can meet with other powerful nations and spread our opinions and influence? But hey, that's just my opinion and you have every right to your own.

Here's the part that you gotta work on:

Throwing bricks at store windows only makes your whole cause look like a joke. Next time these people come to your protest to fight police and damage hard working Canadian's property you should let them know, as a majority, they are not welcome. —Amaturetest

Oh Charlotte... why must you make your invisible, silky strands of webbing where I walk in my yard. And why is it always at face level so it ends up on me. —WebbedOut

Thank you daycare for allowing my ex to make another attempt at ruining my life.

Apparently; even if you have sole custody of your child, if you write who the other parent is when entering info at your daycare, he/she can then have access to all account information from there on out... including what's being taken out of your bank account.

I found this out the hard way.

I'm told that unless you've expressed in detail: "he/she is not to have access to any of your financial or account information", it's YOUR bad if he/she walks in, asks for it, & gets it.

It doesn't seem right does it? —One Upset Parent