Published July 19, 2007. Employers Pay attention!!!! I would just like to know when it became acceptable for employers to expect their employees to put in 110% effort while being paid casual wages ( or NON- DECENT wages) with NO benefits what so ever. Or they make the employees pay partial to have benefits, it […]
Love the Way We Bitch/Love
Love The Way We Bitch – Share your anger, complaints, frustrations, disappointment about living in Halifax. Post a bitch, a rant, a comment. Or send some love at Love The Way We Love blog. Printed weekly in the backpages of The Coast.
Know smoking
Published July 19, 2007. Know smoking Thank you, city council, for once more proving you have the collective brain power of a 20-watt bulb. Throughout the downtown are spanking brand-new garbage bins. These cylinders include a very helpful ashtray for all us lower-than-goatshit smokers. So why were these ashtrays placed well within the designated 16-metre […]
Sick of Transit Strikes
Published July 19, 2006. Sick of Transit Strikes I just found out that the Transit Workers Union will be holding a strike vote in August because talks broke off with the city….NICE! That’s 3 that I’ve had to go through since moving here. I’m sick of it and don’t know quite where to direct my […]
Why do libraries suck so bad?
Published July 19, 2007. Why do libraries suck so bad? They charge too much for fines. Most of their shit is broken. Their books are extremely outdated. And to top it all off most of the libraries, the librariens are fucking assholes. After the library fines I ussually buy my own danm books.. because the […]
to who keyed my car
Published July 19, 2007. to who keyed my car Hello you fucking prick who keyed my gray mercedes on kline st friday night. Thanks alot I spend my whole day detailing my 87 Mercedes 190e. You truly ruined my day and I ever see you near my car and trust me Im up till 4 […]
Call Chronicle Herald
Published July 19, 2007. Call Chronicle Herald There’s someone taking our newspaper in the morning – and I want it to stop. It doesn’t seem that anybody else orders the paper in our building, except for us and our apartment number is written on it several times. The paper boy/girl throws it outside of the […]
A tip for tourists
Published July 19, 2007. A tip for tourists To all of you foreign visitors: In North America, individuals tip when they receive foodservice. They don’t do this in Europe or Australia, because the wages of the servers are SUBSIDISED BY THE PRICE OF THE FOOD. But in Halifax, we are paid MINIMUM WAGE (which leaves […]
I still don’t get it…
Published July 19, 2007. I still don’t get it… It’s that time of year again…Pride Week. Why O’ why do gay folks need a parade? Can someone explain this to me? I can only guess it’s to create awareness and sensitivity towards homosexuality. And yes perhaps a parade could accomplish such things. But why a […]
Stream of unconsciousness
Published July 19, 2007. Stream of unconsciousness CBC is moving their best show – Intelligence – to the desert of Friday nights. Walter the Farting Spray Can has tagged everything on Chebucto Lane from the great UNITY mural to several private houses. After losing a quarter of the Commons for half a year, Halifax is […]
corporate cops
Published July 19, 2007. corporate cops while biking down south park street this past monday afternoon, i was passed by a squadron of halifax motorcycle cops who kindly gave me a siren squeal to clear the way, and perhaps steer my bike into a parked car. while i was slightly annoyed by this unnecessary piggy […]
Sackville Street Disgrace
Published July 19, 2007. Sackville Street Disgrace The sidewalks in front of Reflections and across the street are covered with wads of gum, hundreds of them. It’s sickening to look at and I do not, for the life of me, understand why the city tolerates such unsanitary conditions. However, judging from the combined intelligence of […]
Idling Bus Engines
Published July 19, 2007. Idling Bus Engines I work in an office at Dalhousie overlooking LeMarchant St, across from where the Metro buses park to wait until for their departure times. May I ask why these buses continually insist on keeping their loud engines running while they are parked there for up to 15 minutes […]

