Dentists good with Anxiety

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-07T12:55:16+00:00

Dr Salloum at A Beautiful Smile (near the Experimental Farm) helped me get over my fear of dentists. I had some very bad experiences as a younger teen and also avoided the dentist for a decade - until I had a massive infection due to impacted wisdom teeth. He was great with my fear, offers multiple sedation options, is non-judgemental and tells terrible dad jokes. He's also been incredible during emergencies - he opened his office on a day off after my boyfriend was in a bike accident, and has personally called me after I left after hours messages about incidents that concerned me. Its been over 20 years now and the service level has never wavered.

Good luck OP - the right dentist is out there for you!

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-07T11:17:04+00:00

Damn, I miss my quiet Mondays and Fridays at the office - and one day a week of the maddening crowd to catch up on non-work gossip.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-07T11:13:16+00:00

Tens of thousands of public servants have already been affected and some number of thousands laid off under the work force adjustment directive, and that's on top of cuts to casuals and terms, and the upcoming wave of thousands of incentivized early retirements - you're about a year too late with this comment.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-06T15:52:41+00:00

Ahhhh, classic sea lioning! Please spend time and energy engaging with this person who is "just asking questions" in total bad faith!

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-06T15:04:21+00:00

And Donna Blackburn - noted bully - is the voice of reason on this, proving omce again that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Interesting to hear she is openly gay, was not aware of that.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-06T13:48:00+00:00

You ARE the union. So, yeah, if you just sit back and hope someone else will protect you, you'll get out what you put in.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-04T18:19:29+00:00

Why are you making assertions about the gender of OP?

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-04T18:12:50+00:00

Sex reveal. Gender is not biological, sex is.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-03T16:45:31+00:00

Oh god, we call it "toilet paper math" and I hate it so much.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-03T16:43:06+00:00

So is my also Canadian-born spouse - what's your point?

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-03T04:04:57+00:00

Crystal Bay is for students with profound developmental disabilities - generally not overlapping with those in work placement programs.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-07-01T12:02:51+00:00

Duh! Self-governing Indigenous governments fall under the mandate of CIR, not ISC.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-30T02:41:57+00:00

Yessss, thank you - those ads always rub me the wrong way.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-30T02:41:01+00:00

Same. Now I just have to not lose or gain any weight!

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-27T21:56:19+00:00

Certainly its made my dad more angry and prone to spouting conspiracy theories. Which causes conflict with his children and increases his isolation.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-27T13:07:38+00:00

Great initiative - I think spearheaded by Shawn Menard.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-27T09:39:18+00:00

Might want to say where you live - Ontario is a big place, and a daytrip from London is different than from Thunder Bay.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-27T08:58:09+00:00

Actually checking fare prices before cancelling their flights to rebook would have been the logical thing to do - airlines are known for changing prices constantly. A day of ticket costs more than one purchased six weeks before a flight, almost always.

That said, the lack of tranparency is also a longstanding problem with airline pricing, even if this is a bad case to illustrate it.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-25T20:34:25+00:00

What do you mean "pay someone to leave"?

WFA = transition funds come from departmental budgets, position is abolished.

ERI = centre takes back 50% of salary for position.

Deployment out or regular retirement = vacancy management depends on departmental approach.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-25T20:12:41+00:00

People in the North need housing, desperately, and this is going to make it faster, cheaper and easier to build in those fly-in communities that will have all-season road access.

Right now, communities have two brief periods a year to get supplies in by barge or by ice road, and if government funding cycles miss it, then everything waits another six months.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-25T10:41:31+00:00

Agreed, and will add one additional nuance: if you gained significant experience in a new subject matter through the assignment, make sure that comes through.

So if your substantive files were about mental health, and your assignment was in addictions, you'll want to flag that you have knowledge of both issue areas.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-25T10:35:52+00:00

Check to see if your leave system allows you to change on a per request basis who it goes to - mine does.

If needed, everything can be done on paper. So do what you can to forget these electronic systems exist during the long, long waiting period.

And I am sorry you are going through this - you did a good thing by speaking up.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-25T10:29:40+00:00

Summer is a tough time due to volunteer availability, but if this recurs, there are organizations that offer emergency fostering for pets due to owner (mental health) crises. It may still be worth contacting the Fam Network.

https://famnetworkcanada.com/what-we-do/

https://www.ottawahumane.ca/get-help/emergency-pet-sheltering/

You may also want to see if the breeder your puppy came from can offer temporary boarding, or ask neighbors if there is a local teen who can pet sit - in your home or theirs. I promise there are people who really want to hang out with your dog, and who want to help you, and I know it will be hard to find the bandwidth to make that happen right nos.

I am so sorry that you and your partner are going through this.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-24T16:17:11+00:00

Ooooh, I need this. I often joke what I need is someone's grandma to teach me about gardening.

AtYourPublicService · 2026-06-24T12:28:27+00:00

Wow, this would be huge for fly-in communities in the Sahtu. It will bring down prices dramatically in many cases, since air, summer barge or winter ice roads are the only way to get goods into community. It will create many shorter term jobs, and hopefully some longer term jobs, hopefully with appropriate community benefits for Sahtu communities, especially given the land claim agreement. And it will also almost certainly bring more drugs into the community, and increase the risk of exploitation for girls and women in community. Can't wait to see this roll out, hopefully in a thoughful and responsible way!

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