anyone wanna boot some cigarettes to Alberta?

[bitchass]

our new provincial budget was announced Tuesday, and as of yesturday a pack of 25 cigarettes will cost, at a minimum, $8.50. I imagine at a bar a pack should be pushing $10 now.

i don't even smoke!

a lot of things did go up, but i was wondering how it compared now to prices in the rest of Canada?

vehicle registration $55 went up to almost $70

AB Health up 30% to about $140/ quarter

BEER! I forget how much but it went up.... but I do know that Alberta beer went down.

 

[Temper Tantrum]

Anywhere between 5.75 and 6.50 depending on where you buy them..

in Quebec anyways

~allie~

 

[stir-fry]

i'd love to see them make a pack of ciggies $25 bucks each.
i wonder how many people would smoke them if they had to pay a buck a cigarette ?

 

[labRat]

Originally posted by bitchass
vehicle registration $55 went up to almost $70

it's $70 or $75 per year

AB Health up 30% to about $140/ quarter

whuts this? our health care is 'free'

BEER! I forget how much but it went up.... but I do know that Alberta beer went down.

anywhere between $18 and $21 for 12.

didn't all albertans get a nice kickback from the gov't recently because of the massive profits from the oil companies?

and you don't pay provincial taxes - must be nice.

--craig

 

[Preroller]

Bitchass, where abouts are you?

I should be heading to Lake Louise withing the next month, daym, im going to bring some cartons of cigs with me!

Dave

 

[bitchass]

whuts this? our health care is 'free'

hmm... I don't know about 'free'

In Alberta, everyone over 18 pays for Alberta Health and it usually runs approx $35 a month. I've never lived anywhere but Alberta as an adult so I don't know how it works in other provinces.

As for the rebates we got, that was a nice touch the last couple years. Everyone got a couple cheques for $150 (as long as you had filed your income tax) that went towards your natural gas bills. In a house with 3 or 4 adults you really ended up paying no gas fees for a few months - although I think most spent theirs on beer.

ps. i'm in Calgary.

 

[Cheeka]

just another reason I'm glad I got the hell out of there !!
I lived there for almost 2 years...
sorry albertans but I thought Calgary kinda sucked ass. it was so boring... nothing was ever going on (in the city anyway)!?
I would call it "a nice place to visit... "

 

[labRat]

Originally posted by bitchass
hmm... I don't know about 'free'

hence the quotes. we pay for our health care through provincial sales and income taxes. no monthly bill.

--craig

 

[bitchass]

just another reason I'm glad I got the hell out of there !!
I lived there for almost 2 years...
sorry albertans but I thought Calgary kinda sucked ass. it was so boring... nothing was ever going on (in the city anyway)!?

well, you obviously never got to see any Canadian Mountain Kangaroos or elephant polo!

 

[joey]

good!

smoking is lame!

 

[Jazz]

Smokers are Jokers!