I'm American and I really like Avril Lavigne.I met her twice and she was super nice and friendly and very kind to me and even signed posters and took a picture with me.I've seen her live in concert three times and all three times, she was really good.I appreciate that she's a proud Canadian(she always says this in interviews) and talks about Canada positively all the time.
What do Canadians think of her?
Food prices just keep going up year after year, among other things. government does nothing because they are bought out. Large grocery store companies reporting record profits for years now, so its clearly not some other factor. I know the Iran thing messed up some prices but that was more recent, while food prices have been trending upwards for the past 10 years. Will it continue until not a single person has a penny leftover after buying groceries?
Edit: see the official statistics for yourself at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.11&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=02&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2017&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=06&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2026&referencePeriods=20170201%2C20260601
If you're a professor at a public university in Canada, or if you're an administrator (i.e: Academic Advisor, Registrar, Desk Help, etc) at a university, are you considered a fully public employee? My guess would be yes, as your salary is paid via public tax dollars and student tuition, and the salaries are also publicly disclosed, as they would be for any other public employee making over a certain threshold. But I want to understand if there is any further clarification or some red tape that makes individuals working at universities in Canada not public employees.
Secondly, as a soon to graduate student, it's so frustrating how slow administrative progress has been. Literally, any change the students have wanted, whether it be towards academic policies, guidelines, budgets, tuition reforms, etc, has taken at least 1 year to get to the ears of senior leadership and then another year or so to be implemented, and that too not as originally requested, rather a half-ass solution so they can act as if student concerns really matter (when all we really are, are just numbers). And then they have the audacity to say that: "The youth are our future".
And why are the salaries for university leaders so high. Deans, Vice-Presidents, Vice-Deans, Associate Deans, Presidents, etc, for all the major universities in our country are getting paid well in excess of $300k. Many university president's are getting paid in excess of $500k, which as a student, I think is outrageous. That's more than the PM and the Premiers who lead our country and provinces. Many students can barely afford tuition, are having to skip on meals, etc, and this is what these people are getting paid. Also the same people who claim to care for their student's well-being and mental health, and also say that: "The youth are our future", yeah, my ass, if that's how you treat us, take a fat paycheck, hinder progress, and upkeep the bureaucracy on our campus, you can't say that.
Hi everyone! I’m from Europe and currently visiting Canada on vacation. I’ll be renting a car and have a question about turning right on a red light.
Is turning right on red always allowed, or are there situations where it’s prohibited? Also, do you have to turn right when it’s possible, or is it okay to simply wait for the green light if you’re not sure?
Will drivers behind me get impatient or honk if I decide to wait for the green light?
Thanks!
What is the consensus among Canadians on citizens born abroad to Canadian parents? Do you accept them and consider them Canadians?
I moved to Canada about a year ago now, and my name is Sarah! with an h.
ive noticed since moving here my name is more often than not spelled "sara" by Canadians, like people just assume theres no h. so im wondering, is sara just more common?
one day ill start introducing myself as sarah "with an h" lol
edit: meant spelling, no pronunciation difference. like people spell it with no h if i dont clarify it beforehand :)
I'm looking for bedding (specifically black) and Wayfair popped up as a result. Browsed the site and looked up information on them. From what I understand, it's basically a marketplace. Problem arises that half of the products are clearly AI generated. Anyone have any experience buying anything from them in recent months? All the information I found on them were from before the big AI slop boom
Hi all, I’m visiting Montreal from NYC this weekend and have been loving everything. On my last night I decided to cap it all off with a late night poutine, so I popped into a spot on the way back to my hotel- this was mainly a shawarma and fried chicken joint, but they had poutine as well and was super convenient for my route back.
Since it was a shawarma joint, I asked the guy for a poutine with spicy sauce, since everything was set up in little bins kind of like Chipotle and it looked pretty accessible/customizable. But right when I asked, the guy’s demeanor suddenly shifted and he got really annoyed at me, asked me if I was sure kind of sarcastically, stopped making eye contact with me, and might have rolled his eyes a bit (I didn’t really catch the whole thing since I got kind of embarrassed).
So is this an unreasonable or weird order? I love spicy food and I guess I’m used to things being pretty customizable in the US, so this felt like an overreaction from the guy. Usually America’s impression of Canadians is that y’all are very nice, so I guess it was just kinda unexpected.
For the record, I really liked the poutine with spicy sauce and would order it again. (Would Canadians consider this gross? I’m just genuinely stumped here.)
Hi everyone,
I'm an 18-year-old from Egypt, and I am very serious about moving to Canada to work. I am open to any entry-level job or line of work available.
If you can help me, please DM 🙏🥀
Minnesotan here. Listening to Biz I would have guessed he was from warroad MN, or else across the northern border like Winnipeg.
I never could have guessed he grew up in the Toronto, Buffalo nexus.
And then on top of that he spent much of his youth in French Canadian school which I’ve never associated with that accent.
Is he just a special case or generally any more rural area takes on such a strong accent or something? Or is it the French Canadian community aspect? Please help me understand.
I got a 10 year old myself that I try to encourage to read. She was doing pretty well for while, but now she's slacking again. She has yet to finish the two chapter books I bought for her a few months ago.
Pretty much every kid in my extended family seems to either barely read books or have stopped reading as they get older, preferring to gawk at their ipads, playing Roblox or watching or listening to brainrot on youtube or tiktok.
When I was at that age, I will literally beg my folks to take me to the local library. By the time I was 12, I would borrow about 4-8 books every two weeks. I remember blitzing through the 600 pages of Goblet of Fire in less than week, reading it under my blanket with a flashlight even after my mom yelled at me to stop and go to bed.
It just seems to me paper reading is a dying activity among the younger generation? I want to get a sense of what other parents are experiencing in that regard.
Not a Canadian, so there might be something obvious I'm missing, but I was just curious as to why provincial NDP parties have so much strength compared to the federal NDP. Federally the NDP only has 5 seats in Parliament, and got around 7%~ of the vote in last election, however they hold government in two provinces (Manitoba, British Columbia), and the official opposition status in four provinces.
And while I understand that the last federal election was especially bad for the NDP, in previous elections they've only held 3rd or 4th place (except 2011).
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I recently inherited my great grandparents photos from the early 20th century. Some are of friends and relatives of theirs. Ive traced who I could, but 4 generations later some have no descendants. Im reluctant to what feels like just throwing their lives in the trash. Do any public archives in Canada want photos of not-famous people living daily life?
I've been seeing a lot of posts about the flock cameras being used by u.s. law enforcement. They seem to be diving in, head first. There are people who are running into serious problems due to being mistakenly identified as criminals.
I'm hoping we're not also jumping on this train. Have you heard of any of these sort of surveillance cameras being used in Canada yet?
TIL that canada has an province that is most US centric and has odd politics compared to the rest of the country, The province of Alberta. I researched more about it and i found so beautiful and interesting(I love geography) so i`m obsessed to learn about new places.
But when i read more about politics and Alberta separatism i got shocked i would never knew that this us style conservatism existed in canada too, Its fascinating,My question is how true is that other provinces despise alberta and its people or its just overexaggerated? i want real opinions about this issue i could research on google but i prefer to talk to real Canadians.
I think I accidentally posted this in someone else's thread, so I’m trying again.
Is being shot at due to being transgender something Canada would reject for asylum? The problem there is that I don't possess concrete proof that I was shot at. It came from across the road, but that's all I know. I didn't see who it was that fired the shot, and I don't know the exact spot they were in. All I really know is that I scrambled like hell to get inside. That was about 3½ weeks ago, and I haven't so much as looked out my window since. My wife has had to take care of everything outside the house because I'm too scared to go. I've been getting daily death threats for the last decade. After a while it became rather blasé. But it still continued to scare me. As a result, I've all but resigned myself to an early grave due to this shit.
If someone can help me I would really appreciate it. I've spoken with the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, but I wanted to ask here as well. If I knew someone personally who is a Canadian, I would talk to them about helping me out. But as it sits right now, I don't actually know anyone.