Gordon Barlow

You don't have to permit comments, you know.

caretaker

https://imgur.com/gallery/7RpVie7

scrubbedexpat091

Government policies are annoying sometimes.

When I work and get paid there is an annual exemption amount.

Now become ill and not work and get paid EI, not exempt, disability is deducted dollar for dollar.

Piff Poff

The guy came and augered our septic field yesterday and couldn't fix it, so today he was supposed to squirt water down it and if that didn't work they were going to spot dig. I get home, no sign of anything. Apparently Alberta 1 call can't find our address from the blue sign number (they have been out before). This blue sign address was supposed to make us findable, google maps can find us. Royally annoyed, also means that the hope of spending $800 has leapt to $5000. Woohoo. Who needs an empty credit card? Lets hope when they do come out they can fix it from that and a whole new field isn't needed. This year can just go and do one.

BristolUK

There was a PC Optimum points offer today. $22 worth for a $75 spend, so I asked my MIL to get me a box of Test Strips @ $85.
I didn't know it was a Seniors Discount day (I'm not old enough but she is) and the discount reduced the price to less than $75 so I didn't get my $22 of points.

It doesn't compare to having to spend an extra few thou, but that's happened to me too. A few times.

scrubbedexpat091

I did disable them towards the end. Just kind of saw no reason to continue it since there was no real interest and it didnt exactly help me feel better.



Anyhow... I start the DBT stuff tomorrow. I wish there was free parking at hospitals though. I have to risk a ticket tomorrow. They really think everyone going to a hospital for things can just pay for parking for several hours.

MegSnow

Vulcanoid

Quebecois, spoken by people who had to hide it and did so by rendering it unrecognizable.

Partially discharged

For me the totally subjective pecking order goes from top to bottom:

1. Parisian french
2. Swiss/Belgian french
3. west African/former French colonies in the West Indies etc french
4. Montreal/Quebec City french
5. rest of Quebec french..with maybe the exception of Sagueney french
6. Ontario french (spoken near Ottawa)
7. northern Ontario french
8. way below the rest, Acadian French

Never heard of Ontario french but there are people who identify as Franco-Ontarian mainly in eastern Ontario from Ottawa and east....and some in northern Ontario..Timmins, Hearst etc

I can understand reasonably well what people in the 1st 3 are saying but after that I have a hard time understanding many native to Canada french speakers. Our kids went through french immersion all the way through high school and our daughter uses french daily in her job in Toronto and they were taught Parisian french. I don't believe that "Ontario' french is taught.it is picked up from your family/in the street etc.

dbd33

My children went through the French school system in Ontario. They were regularly tested to be sure that they hadn't picked up a dose of Ontario French. That is, that they didn't speak as if they came from one of those remote corners of Ontario where French is routinely spoken. I suppose that's 7 on Mr. Discharged's list. That form of Ontario French is a akin to someone from remote Quebec speaking while drunk having recently incurred a blow to the nose.

In this case I think we must suppose misguided snobbery. The description "Ontario French" is likely intended to imply French spoken more correctly than them oiks across the river can do. They're likely looking for joual as would be delivered by someone from Switzerland or the Belgian Congo, that is, clearly enunciated and with correct grammar but peppered with localisms.

I'd give 'em a blast of Cajun.

Partially discharged

Mr Discharged.I am honoured.

Here in eastern Ontario, french is predominant in basically on the north side of a line from Ottawa to Montreal..so basically places like Rockland, Embrun, Casselman, Hawkesbury etc. There are also isolated pockets of french in Penetang, Welland, Belle River (near Windsor), and larger areas of north eastern Ontario.

Ontario french is peppered by english words like 'muffler' 'parking' etc.

caretaker

A documentary on zydeco music that aired on CBC had French sub-titles so the Quebecers would know what the Cajuns were saying.

Souvy

Anywhere east of Vanier is mainly Franco. Oddly, when you cross into QC, it becomes rather Anglo again. We went into downtown Rigaud for lunch during a trip a few years ago. I heard more English than French.

It's a bit like that in the Eastern Townships. We were in a supermarket in Bromont and almost everyone was speaking English. A lot of them were probably Americans. Bromont is not far from the border.

Piff Poff

You talking about Optimum, I was $20 shy of the $250 spend to get a lawn chair - one of those ones with the shade thingy about three weeks ago. I should have bought something else and gone to customer service but didn't see the flyer until I was home.

scrubbedexpat091

I have never been able to buy enough at Shoppers to ever get anything for the points.