What's going on in Alberta?

[cybercoma]

I have full coverage with $500 deductibles on collision and comprehensive for $107/month on a '98 Dodge Ram 1500.

I don't have comprehensive, just collision, which probably explains the difference. Not to mention your vehical is worth quite a few bucks more than mine.

You don't know how much I've wanted a Ram. Don't tell me its in red?

Quad Cab, black.

The difference with or without comprehensive, through my insurance company, is only about 10 bucks a month. I didn't think it was worth not having. Ah well...maybe it'll be down to $70 a month in the next couple years. I'm moving to New Brunswick though, so who knows.

[Shakeyhands]

If the insurance bureau wanted to reduce accidents in winter they would work towards ensuring all licenced drivers can drive in winter conditions.

If the insurance bureau wanted to reduce accidents period, they would make it as hard to get a driver's licence in Canada as it is in Europe.

Our casualties in Afghanistan would be much much lower too.

This is a pretty disgusting comment.

[geoffrey]

I have full coverage with $500 deductibles on collision and comprehensive for $107/month on a '98 Dodge Ram 1500.

I don't have comprehensive, just collision, which probably explains the difference. Not to mention your vehical is worth quite a few bucks more than mine.

You don't know how much I've wanted a Ram. Don't tell me its in red?

Quad Cab, black.

The difference with or without comprehensive, through my insurance company, is only about 10 bucks a month. I didn't think it was worth not having. Ah well...maybe it'll be down to $70 a month in the next couple years. I'm moving to New Brunswick though, so who knows.

It is worth having, I'm just a university student that doesn't want to spend an extra $10-15-20 a month.

Accidentally leave your truck in my driveway when you go ok? I mean, what good will a truck do for you there?

[fellowtraveller]

I have full coverage with $500 deductibles on collision and comprehensive for $107/month on a '98 Dodge Ram 1500.

I'm surprised you'd pay that much in Saskatchewan. I have a newer and more valuable vehicle in Alberta and pay $82 per month for similar deductibles and complete coverage. I did eliminate the glass coverage ($90/year for the windshiled, other glass covered) because it wasn't worth it.

The $70 per month for a Cavalier in Calgary is sensational. A 24 year old male in Edmonton pays $100 per month for a '93 Camry with the absolute bare minimum insurance. After plenty of shopping too, and a spotless 8 year driving record.

[cybercoma]

I have full coverage with $500 deductibles on collision and comprehensive for $107/month on a '98 Dodge Ram 1500.

I don't have comprehensive, just collision, which probably explains the difference. Not to mention your vehical is worth quite a few bucks more than mine.

You don't know how much I've wanted a Ram. Don't tell me its in red?

Quad Cab, black.

The difference with or without comprehensive, through my insurance company, is only about 10 bucks a month. I didn't think it was worth not having. Ah well...maybe it'll be down to $70 a month in the next couple years. I'm moving to New Brunswick though, so who knows.

It is worth having, I'm just a university student that doesn't want to spend an extra $10-15-20 a month.

Accidentally leave your truck in my driveway when you go ok? I mean, what good will a truck do for you there?

You can have it for $10,000. Only 82,000kms on it. It was just saftied and e-tested.

[cybercoma]

I have full coverage with $500 deductibles on collision and comprehensive for $107/month on a '98 Dodge Ram 1500.

I'm surprised you'd pay that much in Saskatchewan. I have a newer and more valuable vehicle in Alberta and pay $82 per month for similar deductibles and complete coverage. I did eliminate the glass coverage ($90/year for the windshiled, other glass covered) because it wasn't worth it.

The $70 per month for a Cavalier in Calgary is sensational. A 24 year old male in Edmonton pays $100 per month for a '93 Camry with the absolute bare minimum insurance. After plenty of shopping too, and a spotless 8 year driving record.

Sask? I live in Ontario.

[Montgomery Burns]

Alberta just dropped their corporate income tax rate from 11.5% to 10% today. Good for them but this sucks for Saskatchewan--which has the highest corporate income tax rate in Canada. Nearly all my family lives here, but this might be the tipping point for me. Might be time to leave Calvert's Cuba and flee this socialist sh*thole.

I'm sick and tired of busting my butt only to have the NDP take so much of MY money. :angry:

Keep it up Calvert. Soon there won't be anybody left in this province. Don't forget to turn out the lights when everyone is gone. I'm fed up with your "lowest utility rates in Canada" crap. Why can't you think big instead of small?

Saskatchewan is filthy rich in resources, yet we don't take advantage of it.

[geoffrey]

If I was ever to get into the exploration business (oil and gas for non-westerners), which I might, Saskatchewan is where I'd be at.

Just a small break in regulations and taxes and I'll put a well in your backyard Monty. We'll split the money 50/50.

[Hydraboss]

Hell, if Monty lives near the border I'll put a slant rig on the Alberta side and go horizontal right under him!!

[geoffrey]

Hell, if Monty lives near the border I'll put a slant rig on the Alberta side and go horizontal right under him!!

You an engineer Hydra? If so, sign me up, I just need some engineering type to make my oil barron dreams come true. I think I picked the wrong side of the industry to get in on, I can't just do some drilling without one of those scary engineers.

[Freshinit]

I am an 18 year old Calgarian and I have lived here for the past 11 years. I could offer my perspective on the public school programs. I believe I read somewhere, Alberta has the highest number of french immersion schools in the country, aside from Quebec.

I started k-2 in a developing city 300km northeast of Edmonton, on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. Cold Lake north;the suburban community, Grand Centre; the retail area and Medley;one of Canada's largest airbases, all make up the city my grandfather has inhabited since 1933. It was a place with limited accesibility to material things so I feel that my upbringing brought about solid communcation skills, a partial ethical base since my school was catholic and an introduction to the french language. My grandfather's sons all grew up there and mostly ended up in Calgary after my 6 cousins were born. So naturally, my father was the last son to leave, taking up a job offer from Imperial Oil Inc. downtown Calgary.

Grade 3 shifted my course of thinking towards a faster paced lifestyle. I now had 6 cousins in my age range to grow up with, all of us living within walking distance. We immediately moved into a middle to uppermiddle class community which had a lake. This community was relatively new at the time, ten years or so, so a lot of other imports were coming in from around the country. My social studies curriculum dealt a lot with Canadian history, so each year was a reminder of our backround as a nation. On top of this I was constantly taking in the speaking patterns of my Quebecois teachers, whom under my opinion, delivered my peers and I a better understanding and acceptance of our Eastern counterparts. It also having permanently affected who I chose to associate with as I have kept a group of the same six or seven friends since my arrival in Calgary. I tend to be more reflective on the symbolic nature of my past so I can attribute my liberal core-of-values to my parent's uncommon decision to place me in French immersion.

Jr. High starts in grade seven in Alberta, which coincidently coencided with the breakdown of my father's side of the family. Three divorces within the timeframe of two years. To make things even odder my community was situated on one side of a school district for elemntary, which shifted once Jr High started. So my close friends and I were facing a completely new populous of teens from the east side of the city opposed to the west. My father's economic success had peaked the last year of my elementary. A break up between my parents announced just a couple weeks before I was let out into my new school. Stress would embody much of my educational focus during the next two years. As my father struggled to maintain adequacy in a "conservative lifestyle" a new step father figure approached me through my mother. Joint custody breached my sense of comfort. My grades fell drastically and I feel basic responsibilities were left untaught, which would come back to haunt me mid-highschool. My two contrasting lifestyle were seperated by two week time spreads. On one side I was shock ridden by the sight of my father bailing out on the "Calgarian" dream. My mother's new boyfriend would prove perfect on paper, seeing as they were both social studies teachers , one in the catholic region, one in the public. However, this kind of environment would not lead me to who I am today, and in my eyes have little effect on my direction I hold today. Little talk about history was done at the table, rather a constant bickering between my stepfather and his own ears. Always with negative things to say about students and so on. My pursuit for political awareness came with the help of some positive role models in high school.

too lazy to write about highschool

[geoffrey]

You should write a biography, that's actually quite the story for 18.

[Freshinit]

Yeah no idea where I was going with that one..

[geoffrey]

What high school by the way?

[Freshinit]

What high school by the way?

Lord beaverbrook, and I trust that there are no stalkers in these forums

[geoffrey]

Scarlett grad here.

No stalkers normally...