It is currently 12:20am on Prince Edward Island, and the only sound that can be heard for miles is that of  pop cans being opened legally. I could write a long winded article about how cans and plastic bottles are bad and soda makes people fat, but no one is listening because they are hopped up on their carbonated sugar water. For 25 years, can pop and beer have been illegal on PEI. I maybe wrong, but no one ever died from lack of aluminum can in their life. PEI had a great thing going for them. Glass bottles were safe, environmentally friendly, reusable and it was something else that made PEI a little bit different from the rest of Canada. Why get rid of a good thing?

1. Because it is expensive… Things that are not healthy for you should be expensive; perhaps to deter people from buying them. Now that pop is cheap people will consume more pop, raising the obesity rate,  diabetes will skyrocket- especially in children thus causing your tax dollars to increase.
2. Everywhere else has cans… Insert bridge jumping analogy here.
3. Cans are more convenient… Tell that to the people at Siemens Bottling Company who lost there job,  to people that now have to drive out of their way to return bottles, instead of taking them to there local grocery store or the people who pick up other peoples litter. At least with a glass bottle, you were less reluctant to throw it out your car window

With the perks of canned pop comes the dreaded dime deposit, nickel return. Say you drink 3 pop a day, that is $109.50 in deposits, but you are only getting $54.75 in return.  According to Wikipedia, the islands population is 139,089 people. Lets assume they all drink 3 pops a day (this is a conservative estimate).  The government profits $7 615 122.75 a year.

It might take Islanders a couple of years to realize this, but the only people who are benifiting from canned pop are

1. Big soft drink corporations like Pepsi and Coke.
2. The PEI government, they are loving that extra nickel.
3. Dentists.
4. Insulin Manufacturers… because drug companies don’t have enough money.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Melissa Montgomery. Melissa is intensely awesome, and pretty rocking.

CHMOD 777 life

I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to change the file permissions in my Wordpress install. I really should host my own site instead of relying on someone else’s server.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Chris Chu. Tired of privately venting his frustration in vain, Chris decided to share his discontent with the rest of the world.

I don’t remember who, but either My Grade 12 or 10 English teacher said this about cigarettes:

“[There's no reason why somebody can't quit smoking; You're telling me that your life can be controlled by a tiny stick]“?

I wonder if this is why I don’t get addicted easily, except my weakness toward purchasing technological stuff.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Chris Chu. Tired of privately venting his frustration in vain, Chris decided to share his discontent with the rest of the world.

The question I haven’t seen anyone raise up is this—In a bilingual province with French and English (or both) communities everywhere, why can’t kids who were in French immersion simply go to French-speaking schools?

There isn’t a lot of money to go around in this province, nor are people willing to pay higher taxes. Many people are complaining about this recent decision, but I have yet to see a reasonable alternative given the available resources.

Right now, children who want to go to English schools but live in French communities get to ride the bus to school (albeit farther), and vice versa. There’s a big fuss raised about how the provincial government’s cutting early French immersion, but if parents and children feel that it’s such a big deal to be able to speak French at an early age (and there are proven advantages), why can’t they just send their kids to French school? It’s not like they won’t learn any English from home/their friends. Similarly, studies show that kids in English school can be just as proficient in French if they put an effort into learning the language. This isn’t British Columbia;  there is no excuse for not having any opportunities to practice French.

Je ne sais pas indeed.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Chris Chu. Tired of privately venting his frustration in vain, Chris decided to share his discontent with the rest of the world.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Chris Chu. Tired of privately venting his frustration in vain, Chris decided to share his discontent with the rest of the world.