So we have just had the biggest baddest storms in recent Halifax history. I cranked all through it, like most about the shoveling, about the cold, about the icy roads. But really through it all I was also reminded that I am damn lucky. I braved that terrible storm in, although small, a warm, safe, lit apartment. I had food and companionship, TV and computer access through the whole thing. Some were not so lucky. I often wonder, especially during the winter...what happens to the poor, the homeless and under/poorly housed. What is it like to not even have to basics, like adequate food and shelter in the cold of winter. Fucking horrible that is what it is like! Why in a country as wealthy as Canada do we have poverty and homelessness at all...we have enough money to house and feed every single person that lives in this country....so why don't we?.....hummmm I wonder