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>>986511Talk about Trudeau, Timbits and the Trailer Park Boys! True North, strong and free!
>Favourite parts of Canada?>Hated parts of Canada?>Best/Worst food?>Best/Worst of culture?>hottest men/women of Canada?Remember, play nice!
No. 1813026
>>1813024please explain
>>1813025There should be plenty to do, it's a big city. Only downside I can think of is lack of money?
No. 1813035
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>>1813026 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/could-the-defence-in-the-ibrahim-ali-case-be-punished-for-a-shocking-closing-argument-1.6686605#:~:text=The%20family%20of%20a%2013,lawyers%20to%20lose%20their%20licences.
13y/o girl was raped and murdered in daylight in a popular burnaby central park, found with Ali's semen inside of her and injuries consistent with childbirth. His lawyers are fighting for an appeal on the first-degree charge saying she had consenual sex with him- he would have been 27 at the time. but I hope they lose their licenses tbh
>>1813026 The only thing I enjoy these days is the aquarium tbh. theres also this conservatory thats got some cool birds in it but growing up here, idk what to do anymore lol
No. 1813162
>>1813081Same boat here
nonnie. I haven’t been back to Canada in over a year because my green card is processing. When I left my town of 8k Main Street was basically a ghost town (same like precovid). People describe the town as being a truck stop and yeah I agree. I hope when I come back there’s more stores open and the town isn’t as empty.
No. 1813400
>>1813025as a small town nona i loveeeee going to vancouver and never get bored when im there, even if its for work. theres so much to do! beautiful views, hikes and walks, the aquarium, great shopping, playland, the conservatory, all the random shit that goes on on granville every weekend, lots of concerts, shows and events, tons of great and unique restaurants, i could go on and on.
i wouldve moved there already if it wasnt so fucking expensive
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>>1813490In my case it's just being lucky in having an American parent, which fast tracked me to permanent residency… not helpful advice, sorry
I don't know your situation but being accepted to a university and getting a student visa worked for a lot of people I've known, it's easier to go somewhere to study than to go there to work when you haven't settled far into a professional career yet. Either undergraduate or graduate school. They'll then try to leverage the connections they made or the degree they picked up to secure a work visa if they want to stay longer. but of course that all depends on if extra education is a good fit for you personally, international student tuition can run really expensive
No. 1813790
>>1813019Based threadpic choice.
>>1813035This is horrendous. RIP to that poor girl. This needs to be a lesson as to why liberal countries need to stop letting in third world refugees.
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Why is Ottawa the most cucked city in the nation?
No. 1817452
>>1813490As a QC, please don't come here. It's probably not as bad as the rest of Canada, but it's still Canada. I actually want to move out of the country too. My dad's an American so I am hoping I can get my dual citizenship started up.
If you do want to move here, it's ideal you learn French as you mentioned, you're doing the first major step, which I can't say about a lot of newcomers unfortunately.
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Canada no offense but what the fuck is going on with your cucked country??
No. 1867731
>>1867726A 50 year old MAN trying to change with girls as young as 8? Oh my god, this is actual a dystopia for women. wtf canada
It breaks my heart knowing a lot of these girls are hoping to get swimming scholarships, but then they allow men in. like wtf is going on and how is this legal?
No. 1873617
>>1869957Oh look another appearance Polkaroo sighting!
Are there any actual Canadians here or just Americans who think our muppet PM is funny? It would be nice if we could discuss the country imploding instead of 2015-era political theater
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>>1869957Oh look another Polkaroo sighting!
Are there any actual Canadians here or just Americans who think our muppet PM is funny? It would be nice if we could discuss the country imploding instead of 2015-era political theater
No. 1873638
>>1816249Visiting Ottawa for the first time makes you realize what a joke this entire country is. I'll never forget seeing camps of homeless people in front of the World War memorials and Senatorial chambers.
>>1867585Ottawa is one of the most depressing cities in this country. The "cohesive culture" you experienced must have short-circuited your brain if you thought there was any sort of culture in that city. When I lived in Ottawa in the mid 2010s it was literally a collection of people from small-towns with cliquish small-minded attitudes who refused to integrate into a larger city atmosphere. The crime rate was insane then, I remember walking once at night and having being followed by not just one homeless crackhead, but
two homeless crackheads! Ottawa's downtown core literally has less than 10k people living in it… yet the same homeless population as Toronto's downtown. The majority of Ottawa's population live 40 minutes west, east, or south of downtown in the suburban communities filled with NIMBYs and socially-inept government workers that would eat Justin Turdeau's whole big sweaty shitty asshole for an hour straight if they ever got the chance.
>>1873618I wish I could comment more in this thread but last time I tried to comment I ended up writing a 2000 word schizopost discussing what "Canadian culture" is and I didn't post it because I came off really spergy in the post, but I ended up saving it as a word document in case I ever wanted to post it again.
No. 1873693
Vancouver sucks. The Van suburbs suck. Edmonton sucks. Toronto sucks HARD. The GTA sucks. Ottawa sucks. North ON sucks (mostly). Montreal is aight. Fredericton sucks. Charlottetown sucks. Halifax sucks, but is kind of interesting if you ignore the screaming hobos.
I have lived all over this country and the only places that I have genuinely enjoyed are the territories, Kelowna, and Calgary.
There are so many bums on meth everywhere. I don't mind talking to nice hobos, but we do not have those kind of hobos. We have the stabby kind.
You can't even defend yourself when you get attacked by degenerate moids because the only people that the Canadian government throws in prison are domestic normies ones who actually have a future & who are acting in self defence. Serial killers, pedos, rapists and violent immigrants get off scott-free.
Nowhere has affordable rent. High-skill jobs have 100s of applicants. Low-skilled jobs are even worse. The jobs that our homegrown teenagers depend on, like working at McD's, are now completely impossible for domestic kids because of all of the cheap labour we're importing from India. These international students are devaluing our degrees with RECORD amounts of cheating. It is literally a part of their culture to cheat & to get ahead hand over fist. Their cultural values are completely opposite to our own. And they still graduate after they cheat. They just get a slap on the wrist (trust me, I TA'd for multiple grad level courses). Our major cities are crowded af. When you get East of Ontario it's full of wannabe gangsters even though our whole country is backwoods. I thought that NB would be more rural but no, all the moids there are just poser street-rats like in Ontario who worship rappers and play GTA all day.
This whole country is shit honestly. You can only escape the shit by travelling to either small pocket communities or by going North up to the territories.
I can't wait til I get my Norwegian passport because it's only getting worse.
No. 1873709
>>1873700Canada is the worst part of the former British Empire and its dealing with a lack of real culture into the modern era. We had more than 1.5 million immigrants enter the country in 2023. Our welfare state is collapsing and our government wants to bring in as many low-wage workers as possible to extract tax money from them to continue to fund the baby boomers' retirement funds.
>>1873693I agree with you so hard
nonnie, I've lived from sea to sea and nowhere in Canada is worth settling down. I'm trying to get out of here permanently by the time I'm 30 before the government begins to raise their Exit Tax to higher than 25%.
>>1873697>>1873707Why would you want to move to the territories where you get no government representation, no reliable way to escape via road or air, expensive groceries, and surrounded by people who only moved there to get away from their shit lives? The territories just don't make sense from my perspective: roads that go places are really important to me, it's my neurosis I suppose.
No. 1873715
>>1873707Samefag to say that even 'into the bush' is a not ideal once you pass the mountains of YT & get to the tundra of NWT/NU. The small towns are all Inuit villages there. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I like Inuit people. But I am not one of them. So it would be awkward af for a single white gal to try to make a life there.
>>1873709I feel you nonners. The territories are a personal preference in my case. I hate crowds and cities. I like being isolated and self-suffiencient. I am not a people person at all. I prefer to hunt & fish rather than buying meat from the store. I do buy vegetables though because I'm shit at growing things. I fly helis for work so road access is not something that worries me.
Government representation is a fair worry in a real democracy, but honestly I feel like it is a moot point with the system that we have now. We are not represented either way. None of our candidates are for the people. We're just given the illusion of choice to make it seem like a democracy. We don't even get to vote on who our PM is. We just vote on either the red/blue team, then whoever is the most popular makes the decision for us of who our leader is. There is no realistic way that an independent candidate with honourable values can win in our current system. It's all rigged. I'm just trying to gtfo this cursed country.
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>>1873715>I feel like it's a moot point with the system we have now.Yeah I agree but for some reason the façade of real democracy is important to me which is why I have to stick to the provinces, at least there's that stupid farce of representation down here that I can look towards to delude myself.
No. 1875810
>>1874289Just chiming in to agree with all you other nonners. Rebel News is trash for sure, but they should still be allowed to speak their piece like any other citizen or news org. All news orgs have a slant. It's nothing new.
That is something that rubbed me the wrong way about the whole Freedom Convoy fiasco. I don't align with the right wing on 90% of issues. But they still have the right to protest just like anyone else. It is a part of being a free country. The fact that they FROZE PEOPLE'S BANK ACCOUNTS just for participating in the convoy should scare every single Canadian. It is totalitarian and disgusting. None of our citizens should have to worry about having their life's assets nullified just because they voiced a political view that does not align with our government. That was a huge regressive overstep, and I am glad that JT is finally being punished (albeit softly and too late) for it.
Not only that, but he straight up called them Nazis. I remember there was a Jewish MP at the time who supported the convoy, and he called her a Nazi to her face with no self-awareness.
I hate what most conservatives stand for, but they are still citizens of our country. This kind of "you are a bigot, full stop" rhetoric is doing nothing but harming us. We used to be able to coexist in a mostly centrist way. Now the liberals are just stoking the fire for extremism.
It makes me scared for our future. They are destroying our ability to disagree civilly.
No. 1875862
>>1875810Classic Canadian move:
>Call protestors nazis.>Invite verified nazi soldier into parliament and give him a standing ovation.I lived in downtown Ottawa during the convoy and 95% of media I see about the convoy is falsified and dramatized to insane levels. The left-wing make it seem like it was violent riots meant to destroy democracy, the right-wing make it seem like it was a valiant effort to restore democracy suppressed by the evil autocrats of Parliament Hill. What was it actually, you may ask? It was a group of clueless, confused, disorganized, drunk people. It was pretty obvious from the start that the majority of protestors were just sniffing their own farts and upset because of meme-formatted disinformation that they read on Facebook. There were no "riots" or "demonstrations" so to speak, it was really just a bunch of (very obviously) lower-class people honking in their cars and screaming "FREE-DUMB!!" (whenever they chanted "freedom" they said it in a weird two-syllable way that made it sound like "free dumb" which was pretty funny) congregated in the downtown core, which is a relatively small and unimportant area in the Ottawa metropolitan area. Midway through the protest (about 10-14 days after it began) more than half of the protestors that came realized it was pointless and left the city, and the remaining stragglers were too busy getting off on "pwning the libs" to accept that their participation (and the whole event, really) was devoid of any definitive meaning. It was actually HELL going into an LCBO or a dispensary during the convoy because the lines were so long all-day due to all the people from out-of-town who acted super obnoxiously. They treated the workers/everyone who lived in Ottawa like they were parliamentarians themselves and took out a lot of their frustration on us. What shocked me the most was how many clearly paranoid-schizophrenic moids dragged their wives and children across the country to participate in the event. The large number of cold hungry kids not attending school and living in their parents' cars was one of the only things that really shocked me about the convoy. It made me feel sad for the kids, most of them had this really melancholic and dissociated look in their eyes whenever I'd pass by them on my way to get groceries or booze or wherever I was walking at the time.
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>>1876048In the same vein, apparently the 401 is the busiest highway in the world.
>>1881715>>1881728>>1881730>>1881750I always tend to vote with whatever party offers the best platform for working-class people. I voted NDP in the past because I liked the idea of universal dental & optical care, plus Jack was a really personable leader. I think the major problem I have today with the NDP is their leader. He's my definition of "everything wrong with the modern leftist." I wish that the federal NDP realized that their leader is what's been costing them election after election. I don't like Pierre because I've under the impression that conservative/liberals are two sides of the same coin (literally just rich people LARPing as politicians so they don't have to do work), and from his party's platform it doesn't seem like he wants to curb immigration or the amount of student visas issued. I don't feel like wasting my vote on the conservative party just because of the trans issue, just because I don't think its a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I don't think I'll vote for anybody in the upcoming election. I just don't see a point in doing so when no party has issued a comprehensive platform for a person in my demographic, as well as the FPP system (something Turdeau said he'd get rid of back in the mid-2010s ugh). I'm feeling very removed from the current political landscape, and I guess that's in line with my aspirations to emigrate. The majority of my friends have begun to work towards emigrating as well, so maybe I'm in a sort of echo chamber when I say I don't believe that there's much left for me in this country.
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The meme diploma mill college presidents must be feeling the pressure. They are arguing with each other on podcasts now.
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>>1888512>Talk about a whoreI'm a retard, is this an actual saying or is he just calling people whore for no reason? This guy John Tibbets makes like $400k a year (picrel is from the Sunshine List), that's about the same salary as Doug Ford makes as premier, and it's something like $70k less than the president of the University of Waterloo makes as salary. The craziest thing to me about the leaders of the diploma mills is how much money they're making as salary.
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Damn. Keep in mind the scale is net migration. Wonder how much bigger the deficit can get in the future especially for people in their 20s
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Apparently this is making its rounds on here, but how the fuck is there only 366 of us? We're the size of an average highschool gym? I really felt like there were more. I'm curious what cities you're from
No. 1903716
>>1901016I feel like that's more than I expected tbh. I guess you never know where posters are from unless they say it but I never got the vibe there were many Canadians here.
>I'm curious what cities you're fromNot gonna say the exact city but I'm from Ontario. Can't say I've ever met someone who I would suspect of being a fellow farmer though
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>>1905133>Trusts news media.Kek. Everything reported in the news is to act as a distraction from the fact that Canada has no houses, a shit economy, incredibly high inflation rates, and a floundering nationalized medicare system. The news media will sensationalize anything and everything else before reporting on those aforementioned faults so as to save the Laurentian elites' British sensibilities. In 2023 Canada had a growth rate similar to failed states. Canada has a population of 40 million, the USA has a population of 330 million, yet Canada took on more immigrants than the USA did in 2023. Picrel is an example of that immigration policy in action when compared to amount of housing units completed per annum. It's why any Canadian with a brain is planning their escape from the country before shit really hits the fan in the late 2020s. I envy you Burgerfag because every American I've come across has this idea that Canada is like any blue state but better, but really Canada is a third world country LARPing as America Lite without any of the parts that make America a good place to live.
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Gosh I love Canada, where everything is unaffordable, perpetrators of crimes are given more privacy and care than the
victims, and no one is allowed to disclose the race of a wanted criminal. 30 to 50 year old man with a large build, gee that narrows it down to almost a third of the male population in Vancouver.
https://www.vicnews.com/news/male-teen-sexually-assaulted-in-north-vancouver-public-bathroom-rcmp-say-7323390 No. 1925630
>>1925608Literally feel the exact same way the women deserve to escape india because they can't walk down the street without a male escort without fear of violence thats literal human rights stuff but the men can all get fucked honestly why are we letting them in? I want to leave so bad
>>1925590I'm sorry and you're right they are doom fuel so that's why im asking cause I agree im sure they are painting a worse picture than reality but at the same time it is so blatant how many fucking indian men are here, they are everywhere at all times. I am sincerely not trying to race bait and I feel bad for the racism that the good ones will experience
No. 1925637
>>1925630>I'm sure they are painting a worse picture than realityNona this is reality right now. On those subreddits, particularly canadahousing2, a lot of the posters have resigned themselves to just being bitter, racist, and complicit in the ongoing issues we're facing. If you don't own a home right now in this country, you will never own one. Even if you get a good job, the same position will pay twice as much in the USA and you'll pay less taxes too. Canada is a rinse, it's one big money laundering scheme. Don't be like the reddit losers. I am telling you, please, seriously look into emigrating to a different country. There are avenues to do so, whether that be education, job offers, or even fraud marriage. I have been saving up for a while now and I'm planning to leave by June or July at the latest.
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>>1925673>>1925728>>1925906>>1925914>"It's not even racebaiting anymore"Yeah it is kek, refer to global rule 7. Canada has an immigration problem, but it doesn't matter which nationals are immigrating here. It could be Indians, Chinese, Germans, Mexicans, etc., and it would all be the same. The problem is there is way too many people being allowed into the country ever year for what our economy can handle. This is more of a class issue, but the rich and powerful try to dress it up as a race issue so the dumb people get rilled up over the wrong things.
>"I don't think anyone who vents about this topic is condemning good people or saying they believe it's #allmen. "Unfortunately it is all men. This line especially makes you sound like a newfag or just a tourist. We should all know by now that all men will be violent and will rape if given the chance, regardless of their race or ethnicity. Disgusting scrote behaviours are not localized, they're global.
>"Also if you can't talk about it among women without immediately being shut down and ostracized, how are you supposed to learn how to express these feelings or opinions in a healthy or non-offensive way?"You can go onto the canadahousing2 subreddit if you want to specifically talk shit about Indian people, there you will be met with open arms. LC isn't the place for these types of discussions.
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What's your favourite flavour of Miss Vicky's? Mine is the chili and sour cream flavour
No. 1926737
>>1926715Yeah but it's a Canadian chip company, also please reveal your favourite flavour if you're going to engage.
>>1926726I think most of us are too fed up with the cost of living and housing crises to care about the bills being passed right now, it's part of their plan.
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>>1926575Can we vote on Old Dutch flavours instead?
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https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-worker-financial-independence-retire-early-fire-in-canada-cheaper-2024-3I hate these people. Works long enough to obtain residency, stopped working (it was the plan all along), got lucky enough to get one of the now very rare cheap rent in Quebec City (even in bumfuck nowhere it's hard to pay that for a decent sized clean apartment) and pretends you can live well with only 1000$ a month in the province. I hope he gets renovicted and never obtain his citizenship. I make around 2200$ a month and I have a hard time saving money.
No. 1931785
>>1931778As mass immigration continues to contribute to the free-fall of our welfare state, nationalized healthcare system, and housing market, there's been a definite push in the media to present Canada as a prime destination for immigrants. A highlight of the article for me was:
>"within five years I was going to move to a slightly more civilized country with better healthcare and a cheaper standard of living."Notice that Canada is always presented as the USA
but better, all the while affording Canadian citizens with none of the things that make the USA great in the first place. The "more civilized" bit is so crazy to me as well because it's such an ignorant outsider's perspective. No knowledge of Brittanic history nor the faults of our criminal system.
No. 1934127
>>1933317Canada (besides Quebec) is a Brittanic culture, so the idea of protest, riots, revolt, etc., is incongruent with the cultural psyche that frames order and respect for tradition as ideal. Look up the "tall poppy syndrome" phenomenon that plagues post-Empire cultures. The majority of Canadians are very politically uneducated, and they don't care about the major political parties nor their platforms. Canadians are more likely to form protests in response to foreign problems, like the Masha protests you mention or the spill-over of the BLM protests back in 2019/20, rather than protest national ones like food price inflation, subpar housing numbers, etc..
No. 1935856
KEK this country is a joke
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I found this site yesterday and read through a bunch of it in horror and need to talk to someone about it.
This website basically profiles and chronicles Canadian crime and gangsters, including tons of videos of them jumping people or videos of men who appear to have been kidnapped, stripped naked and beaten. I don't get how they get all this footage, it must be compiled by an informant or someone in law enforcement right? or in collaboration with guys who roll in packs so one can shoot and another can literally film their enemies dying. Why can I click a link and see a video of a powerful Canadian drug lord screaming his brother's name while he dies in front of him? (link related) It's also written by someone whose clearly kind of retarded but trying to sound professional, here is an example:
"Whenever we wake up these days, we race to our phone to see if anyone else has just got shot. The last few days have honestly felt exactly the same as when we were reporting on homicides almost daily; back when Harb/KG were murdered (excellent write-up, make sure you’ve tuned in if you haven’t)."
This isn't racebait because if you grew up here you know that it's a reality that a lot of Indians and Somalians are involved in crime. I am not singling them out but I am complaining about the justice system here because everyone knows how it is such a joke in this country. This website also shows how the majority of the Indian men who turn to crime are from middle class families and there is absolutely no necessity for them to live that life, but it seems their uncles and cousins recruit them at a young age and they want fast money. I have so little sympathy for men who get killed being involved in a gang lifestyle, literally the only ones they have to blame is themselves. Shown on here many times is men who kill for money next to pictures of the Mcmansions they grew up in and their moms who look like normal classy Indian women.
If you're going to read it, the old links on the blog are better and more interesting, they are running out of content so they're covering vintage crime now. Be warned there is videos of extreme violence on here.
https://thedirtynewz.com/character-profiles/getbackgang-activated-hd-kg-%f0%9f%92%a5%f0%9f%92%a5/ No. 1939644
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lamo
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>>1935856ive seen the most retarded videos from this account pop up on my fyp. i literally thought it was a joke account, i cant believe its real.
No. 1939853
>>1939849Canada is more violent than America kek. In Canada only criminals can have guns, so the meek are defenceless. At least in the USA everyone has an equal chance to protect themselves.
>>1939818I'm currently in the process of getting my work visa for an East Asian country, I should be gone for good by summer. Eventually I'd like to settle down in Chile, Uruguay for the good weather and good economy, or Australia if they ever fix their housing crises. I've been talking to an immigration lawyer for about 2 months now about my longterm goals, and he says I have a good chance to get out before shit hits the fan. Even he's planning on leaving once his kids graduate, my family doctor of 20+ years is leaving this year as well. A lot of the highly educated and financially well-off people are gearing up towards leaving but won't mention it until you bring it up first. Most people I know are talking about leaving too but it's all just empty words, like how a lot of Americans said they were gonna evacuate when Trump won. If you really want to get out, do it within the next year or two before the government raises the exit tax higher than it already is.
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>>1946528I want to punch him in the face so badly.
>>1939818I wouldn't recommend Ireland since it has gone up in price for housing, or there is no housing (similar to our case), and a few other fucked issues I'm fuzzy on. I know for a fact their immigration issues are also all over the map. My boyfriend is Irish and he believes in the last few years the politics have gotten way worse and doesn't find it appealing to live there anymore.
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>>1813035Still not letting this case die until he drops dead. I hate this man with a burning passion and have sent all energy I have to finding justice for her. Poor girl. His lawyers as of today are trying to get his case tossed for taking too long. I hope he gets beat to death in prison. I have a feeling he's in a special unit so he doesn't get killed. Throw him in with the dogs. I hope he dies soon. And painfully.
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not a canadafag but this photo of your arctic operations is so metal
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where in Canada do people talk like this?
No. 1997512
>>1991526People are more likely to protest for foreign countries than do it for domestic issues because protesting domestic issues admits there are flaws in the country.
Protesting for Palestine or Ukraine doesn't damage superiority complex Canadians have about being so much kinder than the americans
>>1996503Scarborough
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Was anyone able to see the northern lights last night? It was my first time seeing them, I usually always sleep through them. They were gorgeous
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Question for Canadafags
I've been a client of RBC and CIBC for most of my life. Right now, I have a chequing account with RBC and CIBC, and then and I have credit cards and TFSA with RBC. Lately I've been thinking about closing my CIBC account and opening a new account with a different bank. Before I do, I just wanted to ask a few nonas about what bank they use. My questions are:
>Which of the big 5 banks do you deal with right now?
>Do you have any negative experiences with a certain bank?
>What are the pros/cons of your current bank?
>Do you know if certain banks have the best offers, deals, etc., when compared to other banks?
I think it's crazy we only have 5 major banks here! Sometimes I feel like they're all the same anyway. I got a free pair of Airpods from RBC two summers ago for opening a new account with them, so that was cool. I was just hoping to gauge others experiences with banks before opening a new account with one of them. If you have anything you wanna share or complain about, I hope you reply!
No. 2013658
>>2008428I really like RBC, they're always professional and friendly. I've been with them since I was a young teen starting my first job in 2014. I have a basic credit card and its not bad at all. Good luck
nonnie.
No. 2017304
>>2016779>I'm a poorfagStart saving everything you can. My advice on how to save money as poorfag is: 1) Plan your meals (only have 2 a day and no snack items) around what's on sale in flyers at grocery stores. Compared to my friends I spend 40% less on groceries just because I stick to sale items and don't buy junk. 2) Switch to the cheapest phone plan, for me that means switching my carrier every year once the "cheap 1st year" contract runs out. It's not as big a hassle as it seems because usually you can keep your number. 3) If possible, sign up for KOHO and use that as your main chequing account since they offer the best cash-back deals right now especially with grocery stores (I also think the pink debit cards are cute kek). 4) Quit weed, alcohol, and nicotine if you're addicted to any of those. I used to smoke 2 oz/month because I was trying to cope with being a poorfag in a decaying country but then I realized that it was just a money sink and that a lot of countries have the right to test you for drugs on arrival and can revoke your visa if you don't pass. 5) Make a weekly or monthly budget and
stick to it, this is the major thing that separates me from my more financially irresponsible friends and I credit my budget and sticking to it with helping lift me out of poverty.
>I feel like I fucked up by not going to uni/studying abroad instead.Studying abroad is the biggest scam out there. It's like how all the international students have to pay 3x the amount national students pay here. All of my friends that did a year abroad hated the experience. Why bother going abroad just to be stuck in a crap uni-town and focused more on studying than experiencing the culture or saving money. Once of my friends went to France for a year in uni and she ended up spending 45k. She's still paying off her credit card debts to this day. Don't bother having regrets about what could have been because it's just retarded - the past doesn't exist anymore, only the idea of a future does. Remember it's ALWAYS better to do your education here in Canada as a citizen because you get a much more cost-effective experience and because most countries will recognize Canadian diplomas or degrees.
>The state of the Ontario job market makes me wanna rope.Unfortunately this is just what the business-owner and politician-class want. They want a slew of under-educated workers from foreign countries that don't understand the labour market or culture here, that way they can pay them very cheaply and give them a shit life here for cheaper than just paying a born-Canadian for the job. At my old workplace, next door was a Pizza Pizza, and of the 25 people that worked there 23 worked illegally and were only being paid $6/hour. It's crazy because a lot of people don't actually want to admit how disastrous the immigrant problem is, even though it hurts both immigrants and citizens. They have to live like slaves and we have to live like broke bitches. It sucks, but the rich get richer this way so they won't change it. It's not just an Ontario problem, it's a national problem and no political party wants to address it because they all profit from it.
>I don't know where to startFirst of, if you don't have your passport get it now. Start looking into countries that are safe and secure, and that you'd be interested in inhabiting. Then, look into which countries have a need for legal admins. Most countries that offer work visas will provide a list of jobs that are "in demand" that you can browse. From that, Look into the COL between various cities in the countries and start deciding where you'd like to go. Look into the work visa situation in the various choices you have, and choose which one is best for you. Before you go, if you don't have at least 10k saved, take out a Mastercard or Visa credit card for at least 8-10k and use that for your launching pad. All the best.
No. 2020515
>>2020440Avoid Lowertown and Sandy Hill after dark because it's where all the crackheads live. Ottawa has a third the population of Toronto but the same amount of homeless people, they're congregated in a much smaller area. Most people are either from Ottawa or from small-towns and moved for uni, so the atmosphere is very cliquish and it'll he hard to make friends. There's no night life, and you will hear everybody complain about this, so get ready to buy VIA rail tickets to Montreal or Toronto for the weekend. The O-Train is alright but Rideau station smells really bad, I'm not sure if they ever fixed it but when they built the station they built it in a naturally occuring sulphur deposit. Byward Market is overpriced and not worth the hype, but you'll have to listen to people hype it up as cope. The National Gallery is fun the first time you go, but all other museums are trash and the ones in Toronto and Montreal are way better. If you see any cars with red license plates, those are diplomatic mission cars and they will not follow the rules of the road and if they hit you or run you over they have diplomatic immunity so do not stay close to those cars. You will see many protests downtown about retarded non-issues that will block off traffic and make moving around difficult. Kanata and Orleans aren't even part of Ottawa they're two towns 40 minutes each way from downtown that get included in Ottawa like how Oakville and Ajax are considered part of Toronto. Likewise Nepean was once it's own city but now it's just another neighbourhood, and people that live in Nepean will always remind you of this fact. uOttawa and uCarleton are filled with retards that rent most of the nicer apartments in the neighbourhoods close to their campuses, in September they clog things up and will cause a ruckus as all they do is pop pills smoke weed and drink, so if you live near them you will be kept up late. Besides students most people are government workers with no personality or zest for life and they will be in bed asleep by 9:00PM, the city dies after 11:00PM. I'm not sure if it's different now, but when I lived there the city didn't plow the sidewalks for snow in winter, or salt them for ice. There's a lot of snow in winter so be prepared to crawl through it and get your pants and boots soaking wet. Winter was always harsh, really cold and really snowy, and I saw a few corpses of the homeless people that had frozen to death in the night when I lived there. They say you can skate on the canal when it freezes over in winter, but usually that's only for 3-4 in days per year that they'll open it for skating. It felt like the city was extra dead between October and April due to the weather. Gatineau across the river is just as bad as Ottawa, but the Quebecois there won't appreciate your presence in their turf if you do decide to go over. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Honestly living in Ottawa was really bad. It was the worst years of my life, not for any reason besides where I was living. I've been all over the country Atlantic to Pacific coast, and through the US too, but Ottawa is my least favourite city that I've ever experienced. Even tourists can't have fun; when I was there homeless people would camp outside the parliament in tents and defecate on the world war memorial grounds. Good luck. I feel bad for you because our capital city is one of the worst cities in the country.
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>>2020440Samefag as
>>2020515 but another thing I forgot to mention is that don't drink the tap water. I never had problems with my tonsils before moving to Ottawa, but in the few years I lived there I had such bad issues develop that I had to have my tonsils removed. My surgeon in Toronto said it was most likely caused by dirty or poor-quality tap water.
>>2020796Another good recommendation is Corner Gas, it's a sitcom focused on the lives of people in a small prairie town and it offers a nice look into Western Canada culture.
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I was chatting in my discord server how depressing the small town albertan women have it. When I graduated hs and my friend turned 18 her mom was basically bringing her to bars and meet the local rigpigs because their money would take care of her. She ended up getting with a 40 year old man and after they inevitably broke up she is now engaged to an American woman. Another friend around the same age was pushed by her mom to go home with a man who had two children and she’s become their stepmom at 21 or so. Most of the women I went to school with have all ended up like this where they settle for ugly rigpigs. Yes, it’s nice money and they can stay at home but they’re also setting themselves up for failure and have deal with their husband’s addiction problems. It’s sad that a lot of these women aren’t encouraged to pursue their own careers and lives.
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>>2020515Dear God this is depressing. I went to Ottawa for a weekend trip with my class in 2012 and we had a nice time visiting museums, historical sites, touring the parliament building etc. I don't remember seeing really any homeless people, although even through rose-coloured glasses I can't imagine it was as bad back then as you describe now. How could we let it get like this? Isn't a country's capital city supposed to be its shining pride?
On a similar note, London ON fucking sucks. The downtown area is full of homeless druggies who shout shit at people constantly and closed down businesses. I once saw a crackhead attempt to snatch a woman's bag on the street in the middle of the day, and when her taxi driver grabbed it back (he was helping her unload her stuff) the crackhead threatened to report him to his work and get him fired for "assaulting" him. I was told that got like that within the past 15 years or so.
No. 2036278
>>2036237>I went for a weekend trip with my class in 2012If it was with an elementary school tour group (like the ones from ON that go to QC for a weekend in 8th or 9th grade), the homeless population could have been swept beforehand for safety. They do the same thing when certain groups like broadcasts or ambassadorial regions. From what I've heard and seen though, the problem really started in 2013/2014 when the opiate crisis started ramping up in ON. Probably the most egregious instance is there is a large (20-30) population of Inuit that are homeless in Lowertown specifically, what happened there is the federal government had some education program for Nunavut where participants could come to Ottawa to work or learn, but after the program ended the federal government neglected to give the participants a way to return home (tickets to go were free but tickets to go home weren't), so a lot of them ended up stuck on the streets homeless where they developed addictions and mental health afflictions. A few of them had left by 2018, but most remain stuck on the streets with no way to make it back home. It's really a sad story and it highlights how mismanaged the federal government can be.
>How could we let it get like this? Isn't a country's capital city supposed to be its shining pride?Basically Ottawa the city is split from Ottawa the capital. Like, the municipality of Ottawa is a separate legal entity from the sites that the federal government owns and controls, so the municipality has no jurisdiction over the federal portion and vice versa. The municipality only controls 89% of the landmass that is Ottawa. They always get stuck in petty arguments and they have dichotomous ideas of how the city should be, and how to design the city.
The original master-plan of the city (remember, Ottawa was meant to be a constructed capital like Washington D.C. or Brasília) was developed in 1950 after Canadian home-rule was assured. It was called the
Gréber Plan, and this Gréber guy had designed a capital city modeled on the "City Beautiful" movement and the garden city idea, along with a comprehensive on Beaux-Arts architectural design. He had also worked on some of the more well-known areas of Philadelphia in the U.S.A., and his design was very wonderful but, it was never followed through on. The municipality and federal government couldn't agree on what parts of the plan to implement, which ones to change, etc., so although Ottawa has many winding scenic parkways and some architecturally beautiful buildings in its downtown core, it is plagued by the problems of deviating from a plan and from stupid disagreements between two powers that can't figure out how to share land. It sucks because the original Gréber plan was very wonderful and it could have led to us having a capital designed after Paris or Philadelphia, but because the municipality and federal government have developed the city so far from the original plan, we're left with a city that's too spread out, not well connected, disjointed, and poorly-managed.
>>2020440Also another thing to mention to you that I remember when typing this diatribe out: the buses are shit. When I lived there in the late 10's and early 20's, the buses were always at least 30 minutes late. There was never, not once, that I experience a bus coming on time (and I used to take the bus 2 or 4 times a day). Once I was waiting on a bus that's supposed to come every 15 minutes for 2 hours. I wasted so much time waiting that eventually I decided to not to anything but wait and see how long it'd actually take, and it was 2 hours before I saw a bus should have been at that stop 8 times within those 2 hours. The bus system is just horrible, you're better off walking and taking the train because at least that is reliable. Don't rely on buses for any important meetings or for winter travel.