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

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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.

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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.

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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. :unsure:

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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. :(

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

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You mean can't get to a $50 or $75 spend to get the 20x points? I can see that, but isn't there something occasionally costly you have to get? Razors? Reading glasses? Shoe inserts?
MIL has Omega3 which can be around $20-$25 and some sort of laxative thing that's about $40, so it's no trouble to spend a bit extra on a 20x day and find you have $10 to $15 worth of points to be spent there or Loblaws. It's really like getting 20% cashback.

In my case I have to buy test strips and needles. I either time it to get 20x points or the 55+ discount (20%) at a different pharmacy.

If it's impossible to do then maybe look on the bright side that you don't have to get something costly. I know you have other costs.

It pleases me I can save about 20% of the costs of needles and strips but I'd much rather not have to spend the 80% to begin with. :(

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I only buy small things at Shoppers usually, things like shampoo (they will have head and shoulders on sale for 3.99 either name brand or store brand stuff) laundry detergent when its on sale, sometimes milk, but yeah we don't have any needs where we would spend $75+ at Shoppers.

I buy my tooth brushes there too as they sell the Colgate ones I like for 99 cents on sale vs 1.25 at dollar store & 1.47 at Wal-Mart.

When they had a better food selection I would spend more, but they shrunk the food selection and since Loblaws took over I stopped going to get Cheese when on sale since they replaced it with no name cheese and I don't like no name,

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I wish it had been a 20x day when I had to pay out $160 on 3 months worth of medications that I have to continue for life, this week :(

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Yes, Vanier, Rockland, Alfred, Casselman, Hawkesbury, St. Isidore, St. Eugene are quite franco. Vankleek Hill, Lancaster not so much. I don't find Rigaud that anglo but St. Lazare is very anglo and horsey.

In the eastern Townships I find south of Autoroute 10 to be quite anglo, Knowlton, Brome, North Hatley are places that I can think of.

The Pontiac region NW of Aylmer heading up to Shawville and Fort Colougne is very anglo.

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Prescriptions were a good way to collect points back in the day. BC has since banned collecting points on prescriptions. Ticked people off and stores sued but the ban was upheld so no more points on rx.

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Our last cash in of our shoppers points landed us an Xbox one pro!
just had to.pay the tax.

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Still attract points here, but not the bonus ones.

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Nothing like having a plane loaded and ready to go and no fueler in sight. Its a different company and they seem short staffed today.

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Went to the beach with friends today - it's been planned for weeks and I have been so looking forwards to it.. We only go there a couple of times a year and never made it there last year.. so it's a bit of a big deal for me... plus I was wearing a skort and top that I purchased specifically for today, having lost 30lb and feeling like I don't look quite so crap for a change! :rofl:

It's been stonking hot the last couple of weeks, blue sky and sunshine.. perfect beach /patio weather. So off we troll for the hour+ journey, boogie boards, chairs, beach umbrella, swimgear, towels, sun tan oil stowed away and off we jolly well go, all ready for a lovely day by the water!

After stopping for breakfast, we carry on driving and finally get there, Go to the pub overlooking the water where we usually go prior to going further along the coast to the sand beach and are sat on the patio drinks in hand (non-alcoholic in my case) - and it clouds over... thick dark clouds covered the sky - and it poured with bloody rain the whole afternoon. :( There were 4 of us huddled under an umbrella, sipping! It was absolutely tipping it down with severe thunderstorm warnings, thunder grumbling in the background - and boats speeding to get back to the marina. :eek:

No sitting on the beach in the sunshine with a stroll along the sand and a paddle. :thumbdown: I was so disappointed. I asked if we could try and reschedule another visit for September - weather permitting!:fingerscrossed:

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That's a shame :(

That sounded like a very British place the way you described it. And then when the summer rain arrived it was most definitely Blighty. :nod:

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Its Friday for me. 3 days of sleeping in until 7am....cant wait.

Nice day though. A bit humid but always is early in the day.

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Always the pits when weather is not cooperative. Hopefully you folks can manage to get the visit in with some nice weather in Sept.

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It's President's choice and shoppers combined now.

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I love watching videos taken from landing planes in San Diego, I miss those old days of flying in there almost every week in my late teens/early 20's. I took a flight somewhere about weekly between 1998 and 2004.





San Diego is the busiest single runway airport in the US, and 3rd in the world.


On another topic, I applied to an airline again, I have done so every 6 months for I dunno 3 or 4 years now, never get anywhere, but I keep trying. I always see training groups for this airline when I am at work, so its clear they are hiring.

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No, it won't work for me, unfortunately as I wouldn't qualify because it's based on HOUSEHOLD/ Individual income (which doesn't work well when you have financially co-dependent adults officially at the same address due to mortgages and things! even though apart from that both parties are financially independent) Thanks for the thought though! :)

"The Trillium Drug Program is for people who spend approximately 3 to 4% or more of their after-tax household income on prescription-drug costs.

However, if I get to 65 there might be ODBP.. https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-cove...rugs#section-5

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It’s similar to American English. ;):D

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12 hours of non-stop drilling, jack hammering or whatever the heck the commercial place downstairs is doing. 85 decibels inside the apartment all day long.

Nothing we or anyone else can do, the city permits commercial work from 7:30am to 8pm which is idiotic. Noisy work should be limited to 9am to 5p.

Good thing I don't work tomorrow or I would be screwed by not getting any sleep.

I see no way out of this hole, its not physically possible. Only reason we stay even remotely floating is because MIL helps from time to time, but each month we get deeper in the hole and unless I can manage to somehow get energy to work 20 hours a day, not sure what the solution is.

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You've got 3 days off, you said? How's the progress on this going?

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Wasn't that place north of where you are a possibility? I don't remember the name but there was a rail link IIRC so any loss of Greyhound might not be so bad.

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It's amazing the difference in drug programs across Canada.
As i mentioned before, here in Alberta at age 65 everyone is enrolled in the provincial Coverage for Seniors plan which is premium free and includes spouse who does not have to be over 65. It is not income tested. It also covers ambulance service and a few other extended health benefits.
http://www.health.alberta.ca/service...s-seniors.html

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Possibly in the future. I need to be in Vancouver for the next 30 weeks for the mental health treatment I am starting next week, so can't consider moving until I am done there. There is also the lack of funds to finance a move, we couldn't even move down the street at the moment.

We also still need to go and check these towns out as well, but again not something we can do at the moment.

As far as I know the only train service in that town (Quesnel) is Rocky Mountaineer and it's a tourist train and not cheap and not year round, its not suitable for basic transportation.

Now with Greyhound pulling out we have to reconsider places since we can't live remotely and not have access to other regions, and flying within BC is costly, and most smaller towns don't have full medical services so you need to be able to get within a region, but cars and gas inflate the cost of living, and with lower wages in these smaller towns, then inflated cost of living because of a car, add in rent, and well might not actually be better off in the end.



I have the going rates per hour and for various services the other companies are charging, now working on how much it would cost to start up with the basic supplies needed, and what services to offer, and how I can do it on my scooter, public transit or via car share service. Its a work in progress still, and my wife is helping me. She is the people person so would be in charge of getting customers and sales....lol