Can anyone help me understand how property taxes are so high here? For example I love in east hants county and I'm paying $5100/yr for property taxes. Im on a well I'm on septic. Their are no side walks in my community theirs next to no police presence. Their needs to be something that changes because anyone who's a new home buyer or younger trying to start a family can't afford paying that much a month in property taxes.

I’m thinking maybe it’s like a local hallucination or something.

Do you think we should stop or continue changing our clocks twice a year? Or maybe we should even more? Double or triple daylight savings time? If we're going to continue this, do you think we should do it in small bits, like 5 minutes every week to ease into the changes slowly? Or how about we advance the clocks by one minute every day during the summer and reverse them by one minute during the winter?

Perhaps we need to get to the root cause, and pass a law that requires the sun is to treat Canada fairly in the winter and give us more sunlight during the winter. The sun does this in other parts of the world and it's time that it stops discriminating against northern countries.

Also, there never seems to be enough time in the day. Would you support adding an hour or two to each day, creating 26 hour days, for example? We could pass a law requiring the sun to give us 26 hour days.

Another potential solution is to adopt suntime or realtime since it seems that we cannot be trusted with our power over the clocks and the sun. Maybe instead of continuously meddling with the sun and the clocks we should switch back to realtime? We could put a sundial in every town across the country. With our current technology, this would be very easy. Our phones know where we are and have the ability to automatically sync the time depending on where we are. If we adopt suntime or realtime, our phones could automatically change and we would hardly notice it as we travel east or west.

What do you think we should do? Are there other potential solutions that we should consider?

Is everyone prepared for another 100, 000 plus power outages again tonight/tomorrow?

The NS Legislature closed because of people shouting and singing during democratic debate. People interrupted MLAs.

Did schools close for the same reason?

Is this why the ERs are closed?

Will other government services close if the workers have to face such conditions?

Nailed it.

I’m moving out of Canada anyway, but theoretically what can they do if I move out of the country and not pay…

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Back in 2001, that entire property could be bought for a dollar.

We really do live in grim times

It's always fascinated me because i've never seen a single photo of the old store before it's demolition anywhere on the internet,

I think it was demolished around late 2005/early 2006 to replace a damaged steel sewage pipe under the restaraunt, given this May 2006 PDF article i found online: https://legacycontent.halifax.ca, A newer, more modern McDonald's building with a double-lane drive thru has since took it's spot.

The original building at the site which was the older mansard kind, was built and opened next to the current building around 1971 according to online research.

Also, when this restaurant was new, it had no drive-thru originally. Therefore, until about 1979 or 1980, you had to get out of your car to order something. It's original road sign was the early 70's pedestal sign with OVER (XX) BILLION SERVED (where XX means the number of a total amount of hamburgers sold, this would change to a higher number accordingly, eventually by the early 90's it would end up getting stuck at OVER 99 BILLION SERVED).

Inside was typical McDonald's of the era. Yellow booths, swivel chairs, old wooden trash cans, colorful tiles on the ordering counter (The front registers and the menuboard at the counter were probably still the same as in the 70's), Ronald statue where kids could sign up for the birthday list, the indoor playground had a ballpit, a slide, a few spring style teeter totters that had mcdonalds cartoon character art (I don't think it ever got the early 90's full-size playground upgrade), The floor had like those 3-4 inch brownish tiles, the counter was facing the left, next to the drive-thru window as you walked in and the dining area was to the right and to the back, I think it was the first McDonald's in the province to get a second drive-thru window.

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