Country style

Country style is running their annual roll up the rim (Turn up a winner) contest again this year.

It is running from February 17th till March 31St 2014 of this year. And the final date for redemption is also March 31St 2014.

When you buy a small, medium, large or a extra large hot beverage you get the chance to win any of the following items.

Regular cookie
Small coffee
Regular donut
Bogo breakfast sandwich
$1 off a 12" sandwich
$1 off breakfast sandwich

Now not all sites carry hasbrowns and or breakfast grillers, the hasbrowns would he substituted  with a free donut and the breakfast grillers would be replace with $1 off a breakfast sandwich.

There are a total of 13 country styles in Nova Scotia and they are listed below for everyone.

640 Windmill road in Dartmouth
219 Pleasent street in Dartmouth
11 Park street in Kentville
141 willow street in Truro
9138 Commercial street in New Minas
2 Scotia Drive in Stewiacke
2283 Sydney road in Reserve mines
581 Portland street in Dartmouth
220 Cobequid road in Lower sackville
104 Post road in Antigonish
705 Reeves street in Port hawkesbury
229 Countryview road in Dartmouth
16280 Highway 103 in Hebbs cross

Attempted murder anyone

So as I am sure that everyone is aware there have been several incidents this year and last year of people being hit in crosswalks for 1 reason or another.

Now I am not gonna say that the fault lies with the driver of the vehicle or the pedestrian, but rather it is a 50/50 fault to start with.

Now I have done 2 other short blogs about each side of the situation from both perspectives.

I know from personal experience that alot of drivers are not paying attention when they are driving. I personally always stay on the sidewalk till all the traffic on both sides of the road have come to a stop and make sure that the driver('s) see me.

With that being said there are still times that while I am starting to cross the road another vehicle will try and pass the stopped cars and come very close to hitting me. I have also seen this happen other times to other people as well and of course I never have a recording device out to capture the incident

Now at the same time I have also waited on the side of the road at a marked crosswalk to cross the road and numerous cars do not slow down or even stop for me to cross the road.

Now what prompted me to do this blog/rant was this tweet that was sent out today from Haligonia.

@haligonia: Driver ticketed after pedestrian hit on Oxford & Coburg http://t.co/YgXpk8s7Iq
m.twitter.com/haligonia

A 31-year-old man was issued a summary offence ticket under section 125(1) of the Motor Vehicle Act for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. This ticket carries a fine of $693.95 and four points on a driver’s license upon conviction.

I ask what is the point of issuing a "summary offence ticket under section 125(1) of the Motor Vehicle Act for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk." when this obvious effect on anyone for the fact that this is happening more and more.

The offence should also come with a criminal charge as well for either attempted murder (if the person does not die) or murder (if the person does die) "or the possibly of a lesser charge of attempted manslaughter and or manslaughter itself; now this is if the driver of the vehicle is found guilty of course.

Now if the pedestrian is guilty of causing the incident then they should be criminally charged as well because they are just as liable as the driver is if they caused it, however I have not been able to get any specifics as to what they can be charged with, if you know please comment and let me know.

To wrap this up I do believe that this would be the only wake up call that could be made so people start to take this issue on a more serious note.

Inclusive tax's

So I downloaded and read the Canadian tax journal (regarding the inclusion of taxes on items) a couple of days ago. This is a good read if you have nothing else do to and want to be bored.

The reason for me to do this because I have always wondered why taxs are not included on items when we buy them at a store.

So what I found was that the bill was passed allowing it to be done, however it was left open and uninforced in all provinces.

The reason they have not enforced it is because not all provinces charge the same rate if tax, 2 provinces don't even charge taxes on all items.

However all provinces have the taxes include for oil and gas and the such. They also say that not all provinces charge the same actual type of tax, which is true by name only; then you also run in to the issue if you buy something online what tax should be charged and collected on the item.

The government is looking at this as a whole picture and not on a smaller scale. Why is it that the taxes can not be included in the items for the sticker price inside the store but when you go to pay for them they are broken down on the receipt like gas and oil is.

Now when it comes to buying something online you are charged the tax according to the province it is from and not where you live. By doing that all the province's still get the proper amount of taxes on everything that is sold.

Now no one can say that this can not be done for it has been done in a couple locations in Ontario, now mind you they were for governmental companies to buy their supplies from, but still it can and has been done.

Canada’s system of conspicuously adding gst and pst onto everything you buy is like having Brian Mulroney sticking his thumbs in his ears and wiggling his fingers every time you buy a chocolate bar. Kelly McParland, Financial post,March 2, 1993