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My wife has had half dozen or so interviews for provincial jobs and this is was she has more or less. She always had a panel interview with 3 people listening but only one talking.

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I was just about to get my enigma machine out.

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From Global's SkyTracker Weather - This #YourSask photo was taken by Laura Bueckert of a mother bear and her cub at D'Amour Lake:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...34e7ce66f.jpeg

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Great pic...worth waiting for :thumbup:

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The IB machine. :lol:

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I rediscovered Tea.

Never been a great tea lover but did enjoy Tesco Assam teabags with the cold meats, salmon, sausage roll and christmas cake teatime stuff at my mother's house decades ago.

I'm sure it's available here if you look hard enough but all I ever saw were breakfast blends with some Assam. So a couple of years ago I bought some off Amazon in a funny bag. It was not a good flavour.

My stepdaughter bought some of Whittards version from Home Sense - it's amazing some of the food things they get in there - but I think the one from Amazon put me off.

We came across the packet so I tried one today. Very nice. I just had another. :thumbup:

It won't replace coffee but I can mix it up a bit. Not literally. :lol:

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Jeopardy!: Even decent competitors only limit Holzhauer to a $49,600 win.

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Trying to see a doctor sometimes is frustrating. I will try again tomorrow. The province really should lift the cap they place on walk in clinics so they can stay open their full day and not reach their limit within 2 hours of opening.

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Tesco Assam tea bags on sale this week for $4.99/100 at Save on Foods.

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Definitely worth 10 minutes of your time.

Exploring Canada’s Worst Street

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James Holzhauer had his closest game so far yesterday on Jeopardy!, if they can keep finding challengers like that, this will only get more exciting.

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Quote from this article is a scary thought. Hopefully science will find a way to combat the growing threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

“By the year 2050, it is estimated there are going to be more people who are going to die from antibiotic-resistant infections than cancers, all combined,” Kao said Tuesday afternoon."

https://globalnews.ca/news/5250800/e...jLEvvd3tsrvjJI

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Absolutely. I'm not sure that people in general understand how much influence modern medicine has had on the life expectancy in recent times.
For those who don't know, there is a uk website called Freebmd that allows users to search the birth, marriage and death registrations in the UK from 1837 until the early 1980s, good for family history searches, but also for research, It can be found at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search
I invite anyone to search for deaths of any name for a period from 1866 when ages at death are shown and examine the ages of those who died and the proportion of those who were children. It's a frightening view of the future should anti-biotics become non effective.
You'll see that as time passes, especially after WW1 the proportion of children dying does fall but, the grim reaper still takes his cut compared with recent times.

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Very good, although that site isn't for the UK, it's just for England & Wales. But the point is valid, there is a biological reason human women were designed to have 10+ babies. Probably only 4 of them would make it to reproductive age themselves. We live in very privileged times, these anti-vaxxer idiots should be put on an island and left to putrefy.

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Yup. Not just anti-biotics. Housing conditions. Vaccinations. Medical and dental help.
I do not take an anti-biotic unless I really must.

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Unfortunately most of the meat you eat (if you do eat meat) is raised with far less concern about antibiotic abuse.

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Yes. I know this .

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Good video! I know most of the places shown in that, and have seen how things have changed over the past 40 years. The Beat is good as well; it's an old show now, but the episodes on youtube are still relevant.

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Anyone surprised how many fivers are still in circulation and used in change?

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but if I was getting £7 or £8 change in the UK it was usually 3x£2 and £1 or £2 x4. Hardly ever a fiver.
If I get $7 or $8 here, it's $5 plus the coins. Even if I'm getting $15-$19, the chances are there will be 3 x $5 involved and no $10.

The introduction of the £2 coin in the UK greatly reduced the need for fivers but we also have a $2 coin here and yet fivers-a-plenty.

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Never really thought about it.

Guess it makes sense they are popular, easier to make change with a $5 vs all coins, not really too keen on getting all coins if I am getting $6 or $8 back.

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I love these sorts of videos. I wish I could fly often.

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$5 notes are useful .............. if we stay in a hotel, I leave a $5 + thank you note every morning for the hotel maid.

$5 is the usual minimum tip I give the person who takes me in a golf cart or wheelchair from the Lounge in the Railway Station to the train.

We usually go away on our Christmas trip across Canada with at least $50 in fivers between us ........... because, strangely, we rarely get $5 in change during those 3-4 weeks :nod:

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Nice house <$125k

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...on-st-moncton?


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...9d74a39daf.jpg

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I like old houses like that. Oh the TV in the photo, haven't seen one of those since I was very young.

Old houses like that have character.

Using the calculator on the realtor site, a mortgage on that house would be $1,100 cheaper per month then our apartment.

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I think ours was the model in lower left of this ad. Bonanza and Ed Sullivan after walking home from Church.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...639d1f8a0c.jpg

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Amazing what TV's were like back in the day.

We had something like this during my very early years.

https://jooinn.com/retro-1970s-tv-se...70s-tv-set.jpg

and then something like this

Zenith Television Set Model Unknown

Can't remember what we had in the 90's though.

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It's times like this I wish I was in San Diego. I find Vancouver an incredibly boring city, and not a whole lot to do. Stanley Park and Sea Wall get boring after a few times.

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Kamloops is having crazy long waits for ultrasounds. Shortage of qualified workers. 2,500 patients booked with another 1,800 waiting for an appointment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...unds-1.5132345

I am getting a non-urgent ultrasound in Vancouver as a comparison and only waiting 2 weeks.

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I've gotten used to just taking my requisitions for x-ray and ultrasound to Mayfair Diagnostic 2 blocks from work and getting in without an appointment. It's a private company with 13 locations in Calgary and 1 in Regina. Longest I've ever had to wait was less than a half hour. My guess is the dept of health finds it easier to contract out to Mayfair for those things and LifeLabs for blood and specimen work than trying to run it themselves.

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Yeah mine is booked at West Coast imaging, not with a hospital. I am sure the hospitals do it, but the doctors requisitions never have hospital listed, and I just call the closest clinic to me on the list the doctor provides.

I go to life labs as its in the same building we live in, so literally just have to go down 1 level and there, but I know VGH does have outpatient lab you can go to if you desire, but most people likely live/work closer to a life lab location, although a few times the doctor has asked me to go to the hospital lab instead, never asked why though. When I lived in Squamish the only lab was at the hospital, same with X-ray more advanced imaging had to go to Vancouver or Whistler.

Seems the issue in Kamloops is a shortage of qualified Medical Sonographers.

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LifeLabs can have a considerable wait time (especially if you're in for fasting bloodwork) early in the morning, and people are usually lined up outside. They have a new thing there now; an electronic sign saying how long the estimated wait currently is, and I think there's an option to register then have them text you when your number is getting close, so you can go shopping in the mall instead of just sitting still.

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Yeah they can, I find the one I go to is busiest on Monday, by Wed the wait times are usually 15 min or less. I generally make an appointment though, and I never rush at opening even with fasting, if I need to fast for 10 hours, I stop eating and drinking at midnight and go in at 10, presto no wait.

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That's probably okay if getting up at 9. But I'm usually up around 7.

The idea of being up and not being able to eat or have a cup of coffee for three hours is horrible. :ohmy:

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I usually go to bed at 12am-1am and up around 9-10am. Unless I set an alarm, I will typically sleep 9-10 hours before waking naturally.

But I also don't typically eat anything in the morning, and I don't drink coffee or tea so can manage if I need to wait, I have no appetite, but I try to force myself to eat later in the day.

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This guy is living the dream. I would live to have a fish room and such large tanks. (he is one of the most popular fish folks on youtube.)


This looks like an interesting show.

https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-emplo...s-preview-list


I was looking at job listings in Edmonton, and came across one for the hotel I worked at in 2006-2007 when I lived there, pay being offered is the same exact they were paying in 2006, crazy how wages don't seem to move.

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Match pots.

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It's 3:00am already, I don't think Mother's Day's brunch is going to go that well. :(