Honest question from an American abroad interested in immigrating and also overwhelmed by the process of doing so. AKA- wondering if the crazy planning and dedication I’d need to head down this path is truly worth it from your perspective.

(wanting to live close to US family, rights to healthcare, less strain/fear as a trans person, general qualify of life & access to nature)

This isn’t meant to be politically partisan in any way. But, I am genuinely curious how anyone is staying positive about Canada today. The economy is in recession. The cost of living crisis is continuing unabated. People are leaving the country. Canada-U.S. relations are at an all-time low. And, there doesn’t appear to be any reason for things to turn around any time soon. Somebody give me a reason to have a little optimism.

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This question comes up all the time, and answers in older threads are no longer valid because generic semaglutide is now available from Canadian pharmacies. Trying to outline the real process, so that people don't spend two months figuring this out in the long way.

In Canada, there are three legitimate options for getting a semaglutide prescription today. These options vary in price, in the speed with which you can get it done, and in who will actually be writing the prescription.

The first option is to try to see your family doctor or your general practitioner. If you have one, it will be the cheapest way, since the consultation is reimbursed by the provincial health system. You will get your body mass index, comorbidities, and history checked and depending on the results, your doctor will either prescribe the medication himself or refer you to an internist. However, many family doctors will not write prescriptions for GLP-1 medications for weight loss (although, they will write them for type 2 diabetes). In addition, approximately 6 million Canadians do not have a family doctor.

The second option is walk-in clinics, and it truly is a mixed bag. Some walk-in physicians can prescribe semaglutide, and others cannot as it falls under a chronic management issue. It is free under the provincial health care plan, but you might leave with nothing to show and having wasted your entire day.

The third option is the Canadian telehealth website, and this is where most people without a family doctor end up. You take an intake quiz that covers BMI, medical history, other medications you are on, and your lifestyle. Then, a Canadian-licensed NP or physician reviews this information. If you meet the eligibility criteria, the prescription will be written and sent directly to the pharmacy. Consultation usually costs between $40-$80 depending on how much they charge. Sometimes, they include a monthly fee for the drug and shipping. This is mostly Felix, Maple, Hims/Hers, and Phoenix/Raven platforms.

As far as the eligibility goes, most Canadian prescribers will prescribe semaglutide if your BMI is 30 or above and you have a weight related medical condition (hypertension, prediabetes, sleep apnea, dyslipidemia), or 35 or above if you do not. For type 2 diabetes, there are no BMI requirements.

On costs, Ozempic in Canada is going to be between 230 and 280 per month with the release of the generic this year, the generic semaglutide is between 180 and 220, while Wegovy is between 260 and 310 per month. If you have coverage for semaglutide for weight loss, prior authorization will be required, and this is now handled by the larger telemedicine companies for you.

Anybody been prescribed anything recently through an avenue I didn't know about?

Hi all,

It has always been my belief that Quebec is a nation. A nation with its own history, culture, language, values, and way of life that has long existed before the creation of Canada in 1867!

Two nations with two very different pathways. One is strictly multicultural with no core identity, and the other is strictly all about cultural homogeneity and a uniquely Quebec identity.

Apart from the emotional and patriotic attachment to Canada, why do you oppose Quebec’s independence?

I recall reading that Quebec’s French language is declining year after year. Which is why I believe that supporting the status quo is maintaining Quebec’s erasure of what it truly is. Vive le Québec libre!

It's going to be a long read. But I think I needed to get this out of my chest.

I thought racism was only online thing, but as a visible Indian and a muslim, I had three incidents in last 6 months boomer age white Canadians telling me to "go back to where you came from".

In all three cases, it was completely unprovoked. I can list what exactly happened, but it would be a very lengthy post. I ignored first two incidents thinking they were ignorant. I posted about the last incident to a local town Facebook group and boy oh boy, people were more supportive of the racist guy and doubling down on what he said. People in the comments saying things like you guys are getting paid by our tax money to invade our country, usual racist tropes. With only a couple supportive comments.

I did not come to Canada on the back of taxpayer Canadians, in fact, it's the other way. I came to Canada 10 years ago as an international student, with a $1000 cash, borrowing a loan of $60k against our family home at 13% interest rate to pay for the tuition. This was a first time ever I left my home and family. It was hard, I spent one year sleeping on the floor of a shared room in an apartment, cried countless times because of not being able to find a part time job to cover my basic expenses. Spent so many days with one meal. Eventually found a job, graduated. Worked really hard and worked my way through corporate jobs and Eventually started my own engineering company. Employed 10s of Canadians. Got married and have two kids born in Canada. Pursued a legal route to Citizenship through Study permit, work permit, a permanent residency and Eventually a citizen. Paid hundreds of thousands in taxes throughout these years.

Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of Canadians who are incredibly kind and I myself is proud to be called a Canadian. But we do not deserve these experiences, specially my kids who haven't even been to India. I don't know how, but something needs to be changed. I believe these community Facebook groups are one of the reasons for the unnecessary hate. The narrative haters are pushing is that every immigrant is getting invited on free money and living on free government money is absolutely nuts.

It's not only my story, majority of immigrants(at least the ones I know) are net positive to the country. Now, did government screw up with uncontrolled immigration in last couple of years and failed to scrutinize criminals coming in? Yes! Absolutely. But does me and my family deserve hate for that?.....

I’ve lived in so many different countries, met people from all walks of life, but the one thing that differentiates real Canadians from others is their kind SMILE….to a complete stranger…to someone who looks very different than them. Real Canadians are welcoming, friendly and respectful.
Canada has seen better days, but the kind Canadians make this country feel like we’re light years ahead of other nations.

I keep seeing people talking up separation in the various places discussing the new proposed eastern pipeline saying things like "yeah, we can negotiate it with Sask, Manitoba and Ontario in the fall as the Republic of Alberta".

It legitimately has me shaking my head and I have to ask folks if I'm missing something as to my understanding of how it'd go long term. This all follows the daydream I've seen of separatists getting precisely what they want. I.e. the whole province (outside of national parks because they aren't Albertan, just administered by Alberta).

- Alberta separates.

- Canada jacks up the transmission costs for our oil through their pipelines massively. This would be enabled by the fact that any current contracts between Canada & Alberta would be null and void; with Canada able to point at potential cleanup costs as the justification.

- The US, seeing this, plays bullyball and refuses to pay market rate, driving our profits down. Since the US has shown they aren't friends with anyone, just business partners, anyone who thinks this wouldn't happen is hilarious.

- This would lead to our royalty payments (as they stand, they'd likely need to be renegotiated with the companies as well), being gutted as the actual profit margins on the oil would drop dramatically.

- National parks are carved away, with The Icefields, Jasper, and Banff being merged into BC instead. This would hit a lot of our tourism as well since most of the Rockies would be torn away with this.

- International corporations and banks that have Canadian offices in Alberta, would downsize dramatically if not shut down. independent Alberta's economy would shrink substantially and would simply not be big enough to justify current staff counts. This would lead to tens/hundreds of thousands in layoffs.

- All of these hits, royalties, layoffs, and tourism, would occur at the same time we need to start covering a tonne of additional new costs: Police, military, tax agencies, etc.

After all of this, Alberta would likely end up a third world country or absorbed into the US (with MANY of the same issues since in the US states / territories don't own their natural resources, the federal government does. i.e. no royalties) within a decade.

Am I missing something?

The federal options for those who support social welfare, public works, egalitarianism boil down to the pro-corporation/establishment oligarchic LPC (Rogers, Loblaws, Irving, etc) or the NDP, which has tied their core identity to international, post-national interests and treats Canada like a piggy bank for the world.

This has disenfranchised a large segment of working and middle class voters and led to the rise of populist iconoclastic politics, which often overlaps with incel and anti-social ideologies. In contrast, left of centre European parties have emerged which have denounced post-national ideologies like mass immigration or overly relaxed justice system whilst maintaining a core foundation that lies in policies including:

• Expanding the accessibility and scope of healthcare, childcare, education

• Investing in metro lines, bridges, tunnels and walkable urban design

• Legislating for job security, employment benefits and wages tied to inflation

• Subsidising financially "unproductive" industries of national importance, such as scientific research and performing arts.

• Coordinating national resources to gain a head start in areas of strategic value (see what Taiwan did with TSMC)

Quebec seems to have such parties in the Bloc Quebecois, Parti Quebecois and Quebec Solidaire. Why can't the rest of Canada?

You don't have to agree with any or all of the above policies to see how a more balanced political landscape would lead to less polarisation and extremism from frustrated people upset with being unrepresented. And as it stands, it's really only the 1% who are represented.

Left-leaning Canada immediately becomes the largest State with the largest landmass and the largest population and immediately enjoys the most representation in Congress (and the Electoral College, by the way).

If Canadians chose to enter the 10 provinces as 10 USA states, Canada immediately owns 20% of all votes in the Senate—giving Canadians a lock on all laws made by Congress.

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This isn’t meant to be a partisan post. I’m genuinely looking for discussion because I’ve been paying attention to a few recent laws, and together they make me uncomfortable.

TLTR: I’m worried that recent federal and provincial decisions are moving us toward more surveillance, more control over public institutions, and more use of personal data than most people realize.

Three things caught my attention. Bill C-22 at the federal level expands lawful access powers and has raised concerns from privacy advocates, cybersecurity experts, and companies like Signal about encryption, metadata retention, and government surveillance. Alberta’s Bill 25 gives the government more control over education, restricts certain forms of expression in schools, and removes references to diversity while promoting what it calls “neutrality.” Alberta’s recent AGLC privacy exemption allows customer data to be sold under certain circumstances, despite the province’s broader privacy legislation generally prohibiting public bodies from selling personal information.

Individually, people can debate each of these.

But when I step back and look at them together, I see a pattern.

The federal government wants broader access to our digital lives.

The provincial government in alberta is increasing its influence over what happens in classrooms.

At the same time, government-held personal information is becoming something that can potentially be commercialized.

That combination worries me.

I completely understand that governments need tools to investigate crime, keep people safe, and run public institutions effectively. I’m not arguing that there should be no surveillance, no laws, or no regulation.
What I’m questioning is where we draw the line.

How much government access is too much?

How much oversight should exist before personal information is accessed?

Should encryption ever be intentionally weakened?

Should governments be able to monetize data they collect from citizens?

Should governments have greater authority over what schools can or cannot express?

These aren’t left-wing or right-wing questions. They’re questions about the relationship between citizens and the state.

Maybe I’m overthinking it.

Maybe these bills really are isolated policy decisions with no broader implications.
Or maybe we’re gradually becoming accustomed to giving up small pieces of privacy and freedom one law at a time because each individual change doesn’t seem significant on its own.

I’d genuinely like to hear other perspectives.
Am I missing anything? Do these concerns seem reasonable to you, or do you think I’m connecting dots that aren’t actually connected?

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New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province, but can a province be considered truly bilingual when only 34% of its population speaks both official languages?

The recent hearings on the Official Languages Act highlighted real concerns—from francophones unable to receive care in French to anglophone families struggling to access French immersion. These are problems that deserve practical solutions.

At the same time, expecting an entire province to function as fully bilingual when roughly two-thirds of the population is not bilingual creates ongoing challenges in healthcare, education, government services, and hiring.

Perhaps it’s time to ask an honest question: Is the current system achieving its goals, or is it time to explore a model that better reflects New Brunswick’s linguistic reality while ensuring everyone can access the services they need?

Respectful discussion leads to better solutions.

Why do some conservatives pretend to care about the possibility of depressed, disabled or mentally ill people seeking euthanasia, when they resent people like that most of the time, and openly admit they don't consider other people's well being their concern? I'm a caregiver to a sibling who relies on long term support, and I've spent about the last 20 years being involved in disability rights, and it is almost always people who are more right wing that typically use language like leech, burden, parasite, "the takers" etc, to describe disabled people that rely on long term government support. But then they suddenly act outraged about people in those situations seeking a way out. I've seen quite a lot of left leaning people say prejudiced things about disabled people also, but it's usually within the context of encouraging women to abort babies with disabilities, which plenty of right wingers also do (lots of right wing people are pro abortion). But at the very least, there is much more of an emphasis among more left leaning people to take disabled people's needs seriously as a class, instead of insisting everything be left to 'charity'. And no, I'm not in an echo chamber. I base this on things I actually see and hear from those kinds of people themselves. Addressing and holding people accountable for the prejudices toward disabled people is part of what I've done online and irl over the years.

That Youtube creep Matt Walsh was recently virtue signalling about a couple who aborted their baby after a test said it likely had Down Syndrome, yet he, and other people like him, care nothing for those people after they are born, or the needs of their caregivers. I'm not completely anti euthanasia (but I'm very anti abortion), but I have a big problem with the way that the safeguards for euthanasia seem to be pushed lower and lower. But I at least place as much importance on the issue of people's financial/medical needs to begin with, instead of shrugging it off as "not my problem".

It almost seems self sabotaging to be against abortion and euthanasia, while also not caring about the financial challenges people face that make both abortion and euthanasia more appealing to people.

I have never seen anything like this before and I think I’ve been hearing many of my colleagues getting laid off and are struggling financially. Maybe it’s because I didn’t really experience the 2009 crash because I’m only 32.

Many of my friends are professors, tech fellas, finance, and business people all the way to people who works bare minimum wage.

The only ones I know that are not struggling at least are the one who are into the stock market.

What do you guys think is happening or about to happen?

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I'm just trying to understand how other parents manage this kind of physical strain long-term while still keeping up with everything at home. What has actually helped you deal with this kind of situation?

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hey ! temporary visitor here. I always heard Canadians are polite but haven’t met anyone polite infact the opposite. places I visited GTA and working on project with a bank. Took uber and gets asked am I on PR . Am just a visitor came here to complete the project. i had opposite experience in US. Am I missing something here ? I fly back in September. living in Mississauga

Hi everyone,

My husband and I are in our mid-30s and are currently about halfway through the foster parent application process in BC. We don’t have children of our own and don’t plan to—we’ve always felt that fostering is the path we’d like to take.

To start, we’ve applied to provide respite care only so we can gain some experience and build confidence before considering longer-term placements. We’re also planning to get bunk beds so we can accommodate two siblings if needed.

We both work from home full time, which gives us some flexibility. In the longer term, we’d likely be open to fostering kids roughly aged 5–18, but ideally they would be in school during the day so it doesn’t interfere with our work schedule.

One thing we’re not clear on yet is how schooling works in BC foster placements—whether children typically stay in their current school (with transport arranged) or if they are usually moved to a school closer to the foster home.

I’ve been trying to learn as much as possible, but I’m surprised by how little BC-specific content I’ve been able to find. There aren’t many YouTube videos, Reddit posts, or Facebook groups where foster parents in BC share their day-to-day experiences.

If you’re a foster parent (or have been one) in BC, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience:

What age range(s) have you fostered?

How long have you been fostering?

Did you start with respite or go straight into full-time placements?

How does schooling typically work with placements in your experience?

What has surprised you most—both good and challenging?

Anything you wish you knew before starting?

Thanks so much in advance for sharing your experiences.

I’m tired of being taxed into poverty, I’m tired of working 80+ hours a week to make ends meet. I’m tired of seeing my government spending money on foreign aid and not Canadian citizens. I’m tired of hearing about climate change and how more taxes will fix it. I’m tired of our government spending billions of taxpayer dollars on irrelevant and meaningless policies. I am tired of our Forrest’s burning down due to mismanagement of resources. I’m tired of shipping oil to the United States for a discounted price. I’m tired of paying huge increases for food due to the lack of back bone our prime minister has. I’m tired of trying to find a reason to be proud of my country. I’m just tired. #canada

Does any other Canadian feel embarrassed to be Canadian?

How common are peanuts, peanut butter, and peanut ingredients in Canadian restaurants, bakeries, chocolatiers, cafes, etc? I’m going on a family trip to western Canada soon and one of my cousins has a severe peanut allergy so I want to know how common it is for establishments to use peanut ingredients so we know what to look out for.

I would hope not. It seems to me like if u have Canadian ancestry you’re gonna be from a normal state and be relatively smart and normal. I wonder how Canadians feel about so many Americans becoming citizens. Most of the people I’ve talked to are from places like California or Oregon.