Thanks.

You did get a receipt for your soul I hope?

Q: Can I open a bank account before I get to Canada.
A: Yes, you can, but you probably don't need to. Many people have used HSBC to open a Canadian bank account in Canada, but they may not be the best long-term option for you.

Or something.

Soul????

My wife has qualifications in number-crunching and she's mentioned that you have to sell your soul to the Devil as part of the awards ceremony.

I think it entitles you to manipulate numbers in an unholy manner and gain the ability to make massive debits look like equally massive credits.

Congrats by the way but you'll also have noticed that you no longer have a reflection and that small animals growl when you walk by.

Off topic - but congrats too

I think we sell it long, long before we get anywhere near an awards ceremony. Frequently it coincides with the loss of the will to live.

Now I understand. I always thought is was the slightly sulfurous odor about us that scared them.

However, to look on the bright side, at least we are not lawyers.

Judy

Why dont we separate the information that is Province Specific into subheadings or something for each Province ? Would that one work ?

Gaynor

ps dont mind giving you a lift over the next week or two - take my mind off the kids arguing again for the first time in 2 months that'll take some getting used too

[QUOTE=JonboyE;5134125]We could write a 6" thick text book on Canadian tax. /QUOTE]

Yeah JonboyE

My hubby just received his material to sit the CARE exam although he does have 15 years PQE as a ACA in the UK.

Congrats too

Suggested List of Banned Questions: (LBQ's)

What's Canada like?
Should we move there?
Can you get Marmite?
Why isn't there any orange squash??

GAH!!!!!!!!

Maybe we should should put a link at the top of the forums called "People new to this Site" so that when newbies come on the forum it is the first thing that they see and hopefully read it. Alot of people dont realise the WIKI is there.

Gay
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LOL, gold star for "Best use of irony (intentional or unintentional) in a BE thread"...

My only suggestion is that the thread should be entitled "BE Wiki / Knowledge Base" or some such thing....Oh, hang on, Ill fetch my hat

oi u

Its just that I think that not everyone knows what a "wiki" is

Thank you for the suggestions, everyone.

They have helped me to think about more wrinkles than I recognised at the outset and to refine my ideas.

Full blown Wiki articles

Some of your suggestions are fab, but I think they are better suited to full blown Wiki articles in their own right. If the "Idiot's Guide" mentions such topics, I think it should mention them only briefly and, where Wiki articles on those topics are available, point the reader to those articles.

For example, JonboyE has stepped up to the plate and offered to write Wiki articles on a few different aspects of taxation in Canada. I think that will be a very useful addition to our Wiki section.

Another topic to which the "Idiot's Guide" might refer in passing is the issue of compatibility amongst UK and Canadian electrical appliances, entertainment systems and mobile (cell) phones. But, again, because I think the "Idiot's Guide" should be brief, I don't think it is the place to go into those topics in detail. I would love to see relevant Wiki articles from someone who is knowledgeable about electricity.

Wiki articles on provinces

Gay, I think the idea of brief, introductory articles on various provinces is a good one. I think there is a place for a general "Idiot's Guide" to the Canada forum and, on top of that, introductory articles on individual provinces. I would be glad to collaborate with you (and anyone else who wants to participate) on an introductory article to Alberta. However, I see that as being a separate discussion, and perhaps we can conduct that discussion elsewhere.

Sticky note

I agree with Gaynor (burtonbunch) that not everyone who visits the forum knows what a Wiki or even a "knowledge base" is.

Guide to Canada or Guide to Forum Use?

After giving it more thought, I have concluded that what I am looking for is a guide to forum use rather than a guide to Canada as such. In this scenario, explaining anything about Canada is relevant only insofar as it may help the poster to frame a question more effectively and therefore get a better quality answer.

My website

I'm not going to stick around and debate whether an Idiot's Guide to the forum is a good idea or whether it should take the form of a Wiki article or a sticky note that replaces the existing BE Wiki / Knoweledge Base sticky note.

I want a permanent numbered list of instructions. If anyone wanders in here and asks a poorly framed question, I want to be able to say to them, "Please see Point #8 on Such-And-Such List."

If someone else wants to star in "Groundhog Day," they are more than welcome to do so. (For anyone who doesn't know, that's a movie in which the same thing happens over and over and over and over and over again.) But I don't want to do that. I want a list to which I can point.

Accordingly, I have created such a list on my own website.

I believe my web page is within the letter and the spirit of BE's rules, since it's a non-commercial website. What I mean by that is that I'm not making any money from my website. Also, the only thing I'm promoting on my website is the BE forum.

Please feel free to refer BE new comers to my web page.

Please feel free to suggest to me points that I should add to my web page.

Please feel free to create here at BE a page that is similar to, or even identical to, the one that I've created on my website.