BRITISH BRITISH BRITISH BRITISH BRITISH canada eh BRITISH BRITISH
omg canada YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE
Canada: world champion photobombers.
YEAH CANADA WOO
Canada just has a lot of feelings, okay?
“She’s on our money, too!”
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i’m sorry, but do you know where i live?
do you?
Everything is available in my country.
sorry you were saying
CLEARLY THAT EGG WAS MADE BY COMMUNISTS
ARE YOU TRYING TO TURN US INTO COMMIES
#I had a kinder egg once it wasn’t bad
I’ve lived in Canada for nearly five years and never had a Kinder egg. I probably should just so I can say I’ve had one. However, I really doubt they’re awesome enough to make up for all the US-only stuff *cough*fuckyoupandoraradio*cough*.
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Oh man, that is soooo true. Damn it NS! They were pretty apologetic about the whole thing too and said that there was probably a way I could get the money back once I had a new sticker on my card. Speaking of I should probably call my mom just to harass her about that…
It’s not perfect, though. I’m unhappy at the knowledge that without student insurance my anti-depressants might cost a metric shitload. Like, what if I’m on them for the rest of my life? I’m going to spend thousands of dollars throughout my lifetime if that’s the case. For what? It’s like a much bigger, more daunting, more scary version of women having to buy tampons, a money based punishment for happening to be ill. (I hope I can eventually get off the drugs eventually just for that reason augh.)
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Re: healthcare, I’m starting to wonder about it from trips to the UK (british partner) and knowing people there. It seems good if you’re mostly healthy, but healthcare also includes doing things to ensure the person can take care of themself. The UK is apparently cutting a lot of disability benefits and limiting who deserves what to nonsensical standards. The US still sucks, but for the people who have the greatest need for healthcare, it seems like lots of other places suck as well.
Re: The race thing… I honestly feel pretty embarassed right now ahahaha. My apologies to anyone reading along who deserves said apology… I should really know better. u.u;
Healthcare: What grosses me out is that I’ve read a lot of stuff from people who live in Ontario about how there’s a bunch of things being slowly cut from the list of stuff that’s covered. Also been reading about how Canada will actually sometimes refuse to cover previously existing conditions that immigrants have on the offchance that those immigrants are moving soley to take advantage of the healthcare system. Which is incredibly disgusting, given that if those people move to take advantage of the healthcare system *and then get better like they should given that they are taking care of their health by moving*, they will then start to be productive citizens in our country.
Not to mention that if you’re more concerned about catching fraud than you are about making sure that nobody falls through the cracks, you are a shitty, shitty person.
I found out (well, was reminded) today that we do not accept people with HIV/AIDS to immigrate to Canada … it’s kinda sad, really. There is definitely room to grow in the Canadian government department… apparently, if you are not with the Conservatives, you are with the Child Pornographers… I question the world I live in right now.
Oh my *GOD* do you see why I think that contempt and disdain are things that need to be used in this kind of discourse? Because that is the stupidest shit I have ever fucking seen holy shit.
If I understand it correctly*, my family got in on a technicality. We didn’t officially know Mom had cancer until the day after our preparatory health exam, so they weren’t allowed to take it into consideration. (Mind you, the delay before actually moving was long enough that almost all of the treatment was over anyway.)
It’s scary to think how much would be different if the timing was off by just one day.
(This was in 2007, if you were wondering.)
*I was thirteen; there was almost certainly stuff happening I wasn’t let in on.
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yeah basically
Or when you go ahead and begin to memorize facts, required by other nations’ emigration department, in case you wish to gain naturalization.elsewhere.
My goal for the next year is to start memorising the emigration requirements/test info for Canada, just in case. I have plenty of friends in Canada already, and I would like to be prepared in case something horrendous happens at the next presidential election.
(Admittedly, my experience is as a child immigrating, so I might be missing bits my parents did without involving me.)
The test is for citizenship, and thus you don’t need to know it until after you’ve been here for some time*. The tricky part is convincing the U.S. to let you leave. It took us five years (yes, five) to get them to stop stalling. (They were reduced to making shit up. They rejected a form for lack of signature when it quite clearly did have the signature. Also, why do fingerprint records expire (and so have to be re-done) when you still have the same fingers?)
*So I’m told. I was technically a minor when we applied for citizenship, so the test is Not My Problem.
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bravelittlehobbitwhomwealladmire:
tyrotheterrible replied to your post: Now I’m thinking about dairy. I’m not lactose…
OH MY GOD YOU TOO? I thought I was the only one who couldn’t stand the taste of regular milk. Like, even the look of it tweaks my gag reflex. o_o
OHGOD…
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Milk is awesome. Including non-organic non-flavoured 2%. You have to be careful, though, because you can’t trust the milk manufacturers. It used to be the expiration date was a conservative estimate. I’ve had milk that was lumpy four days before the sell-by date. I carefully taste any milk with less than a week left. It’s not paranoia when they’re really out to get you*, as they say.
I wonder if it’s related to the way it’s bagged. They have bagged milk here in Canada. It’s weird. They sell special pitchers to put the milk bags in; you put in the bag, cut off the top-outer corner, and pour. And they don’t have plastic jugs. (They do have those cardboard-ish cartons, though.)
*Did I ever teach you guys how to speak Goldfish?
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