In Canada, all wedding couple have to get a marriage license before their wedding day. You can get it from many places, I just went to London Drugs to get mine from an insurance broker. The wedding license is just a piece of paper. It is the document you are going to sign on the wedding day. The wedding officiant will take it and send it back to the registration office and the government will mail your the wedding certificate. This piece of computer printed paper costs me $100. What a rip off! I wonder how can poor people afford to get marry. $100 for a piece of paper is ridiculous. Getting marry is basic human rights. The government should at least waive the registration fee for the first marriage. It is fair to charge those who marry more than once. But getting marry once is pretty much universal.
When I fill in the application form for the marriage license, I notice some legal statment at the back of the form. It is illegal for a male applicant to marry his mother, daughter or sister and it is also illegal for a female applicant to marry her dad, son or brother. Incest is illegal, so this rules make sense. However the legal statment didn’t say anything about son marrying to dad or daugther to mother. I think we have incest law for many years but the gay marriage is just legalized, so the incest law isn’t update. It would make a headline news if a gay incest couple trying to register. On a second thought, maybe the incest law is not update on purpose. Gay couple cannot have children and the intention of the incest law is to avoid childbirth between close relatives. Since gay cannot reproduce, we don’t have any reason to stop them getting marry. Gay is gross. Incest is very gross. Gay and incest is exponentially gross, yet it is legal. Yuck! The Canadian family law is really screwed up.
The gas price is reaching record high of $1.50 per liter this summer. The government is making it even worse by introducing a 2 cents carbon tax on gas. Every time I fill up my car, I feel like there is a vacuum cleaner sucking dry my wallet. Taking the public transport is not an option, since my time cost is still much higher than the cost of gas needed to drive to work. However there is a way to save at least 10% of fuel expensive. It is changing your driving habit.
The idea is very simple. Drive slow, save gas. If you drive fast, you have to brake a lot for traffic lights, making turns or exiting the highway. When you accelerate the car, you build up momentum. When you slow down, the momentum decrease. The gas spent on accelerating the car is wasted if the momentum is not used to move the car forward. You don’t want to waste any gas on the brake. I started practicing the new driving habit almost 2 weeks and it really works. My gas mileage went up from 11.7L / 100km to 10.2 / 100km. I can save at least $20 per month simply by driving slowly. Although I say to drive slower, the time difference is insufficient. The lost of average speed is not noticeable. When you drive fast and brake fast, you just spend more time waiting in front of the traffic light.
