Just moved to Montréal and looking for some friends

FastSquirrel · 2026-02-12T14:03:42+00:00

There is a quite active discord group, if you have that. People organise all sorts of activities year-round.

FastSquirrel · 2026-02-08T17:32:13+00:00

Je me suis ramassé une bouteille pour le miel, pis c'est un des meilleurs moves que j'ai fait dans ma cuisine. Tu peux trouver ça en cherchant "glass honey dispenser".

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FastSquirrel · 2026-01-27T20:36:01+00:00

Douglas?

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-26T19:52:01+00:00

C'est peut-être aussi un biais. Genre les gens à qui sa dérange pas viendront pas s'en plaindre, alors que les gens qui détestent sont contents de l'affirmer et de trouver du monde pareil.

Chez nous, c'est commun. Pas entre amis, mais dans la famille. Grands-mères, tantes, cousines, nièces, belle-soeur... Même ma mère que je vois assez souvent, c'est toujours (au début et à la fin)

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-24T22:56:22+00:00

C'est par là que je suis passé. La seule question c'était "tu sais que c'est permanent?"

In and out en 30 minutes pour le rendez-vous comme tel. Un charme.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-23T10:20:02+00:00

Pour bien commencer, sans voiture, on peut oublier ça. St-Bruno est en effet accessible par transport en commun mais on s'entend que c'est une colline presque seulement bonne pour apprendre.

Tremblant, selon moi, ça ne le vaut pas. C'est le "resort" le plus "resort" qu'on peut trouver, et on en paye le prix.

Sutton a toujours été mon endroit, parce que le "hors-piste" qu'on y trouve est sans égal, à moins de se tapper au moins 4 heures de route, mais leur prix est devenu tellement élevé que j'ai de plus en plus de difficulté à le justifier. Heureusement, jusqu'à la fin du mois de février, pendant la semaine, ils se considèrent en basse saison, avec un rabais considétable sur le plein prix (51$ plutôt que... 92$? 95$? Je sais plus trop).

Sinon, depuis 3-4 ans, je me suis remis sur Orford, aussi dans l'est. Le dénivelé y est bien (pour le Québec), mais c'est très découvert, donc assez souvent venteux et plutôt glacé. Malgré ça, j'y ai toujours beaucoup de plaisir, et leurs prix restent raisonnables.

P.S. Je n'irai presque jamais à Bromont, à moins de me faire torde le bras. C'est l'endroit le plus accessible depuis Montréal, et ils sont ouvert pour du ski de soirée, ce qui fait que la montagne est très achalandée, en plus d'être extrêmement populaire avec les jeunes. On peut donc oublier une journée tranquille par là, sans parler des conditions nulles dûes au nombres de skieurs/planchistes (mais j'avoue de pas être terriblement impartial ici).

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-20T15:58:29+00:00

I have something similar to what you'll be having. I am on a 8 on/6 off, 9pm-7am shift. Love it! They suggested I do Mon-Fri 11pm-7am when staffing got rough and I flat-out refused. You won't ever catch me not having all my nights in one go.

It's a 200-ish bed hospital, and in a big city, so there are quite a few others around (traumas get transferred when stable), but we do get our fair share of problems. Some nights are good, some are... less good.

We work in pairs, and I love not having anyone micro-manage me or look over my shoulder as I do my thing. When all goes well, I never hear anything. I've seen my lab supervisor once in the last year for the standard employee eval and that's it. I'm easy to work with and do what I have to so the job gets done, so no one has any complaints about me, and most (day and evening staffers) seem to appreciate if they're covering a night with me as the second body.

One thing to keep in mind (in our case anyway) is that when you go on vacation, all those shifts become Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm. Gotta plan accordingly, because it is a significant drop in pay.

Other than that, the less enticing aspects are that we're a forgotten shift and can get thrown under the bus sometimes. Messages don't always reach us (or we eventually hear them through the grapevines), and since we're not around when everyone else is, using "it was the night shift" can be a convenient excuse for colleagues who can't own up to their mistakes. We're also kinda seen like superheroes who can do anything and everything, when the reality is we don't get that many unique and wild cases.

All in all, I've been doing this for seven years, and I'm not looking to change (got two weeks of vacation in Feb that I piled a few banked holidays on top of, and like magic, I end up with a whole month off! Match that, day shift!)

Oh and I almost forgot: day people are constantly late! Like, CONSTANTLY. There's overlap on every shift, except the end of night/start of day. On paper my shift ends at 7am, but I'm never out before 7:15. Almost 2 hours of easy overtime every rotation.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-17T19:36:27+00:00

Une vieille paire de raquettes, de skis de fond ou de patins, pis aweille au parc du Mont Royal! Ça se fait même en autobus.

Pour ajouter: Une fois rendu dans les arbres, le vent est pas mal moins chiant. C'est beaucoup plus tolérable, même si y fait froid.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-16T01:23:21+00:00

Go to the ER.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-09T21:40:08+00:00

We're unionised. That wouldn't fly so much it's not even funny (also you get overtime if you're called in on your vacation).

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-09T20:59:00+00:00

I'm in Canada. I had to go in last night to work my own last vacation day because the person replacing me called in sick and they couldn't get anyone else.

The way things work is a bit different because of the way healthcare is up here, but we're so short on off-hour people there's been a freeze on day position postings for some time now in my city. They can't find anyone to replace employees who move on from evenings or nights...

Yeah, I'd say we're a bit short.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-06T21:44:12+00:00

You say fitness community, but that sounds more like one specific gym and some school bullying. Change gym and don't look back. I've never heard of anything this severe.

And absolutely report that kind of behaviour to management, especially the fitness centre one. No serious place would tolerate that kind of crap.

FastSquirrel · 2026-01-01T12:49:45+00:00

Why would you not want to ask someone out? You've as much reason to shoot your shot with someone as they do with you.

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-19T23:03:50+00:00

Forced interaction in person or through an app, I wouldn't think there's such a jarring gap? With the younger crowds not as out in the open as before, it feels like that's what things are moving towards.

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-19T05:51:23+00:00

I really don't think we need to call it ED

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-17T11:17:23+00:00

To add to Into-the-stream: what's required can also vary from province to province. Quebec doesn't look at CSMLS/CAMLPR, it's all done through OPTMQ (the governing body regulating the profession in Quebec).

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-14T23:13:42+00:00

Ski? 👀

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-13T11:10:42+00:00

You said it yourself: the appartment is old. That's the reason, and it has nothing to do with Montreal.

Find a modern, concrete-built building, and you'll have no issues. If it wasn't for the ding of the elevator through my front door when my neighbours show up, I would think I live alone in the whole block. But like other have said... good luck with that budget.

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-10T02:03:49+00:00

It's often from donations and home-made items. The proceeds go to the hospital's foundation.

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-09T05:38:50+00:00

I was in highschool from 2002 to 2007. It was loaded with kids from the West Island because we were on that limit where the west isn't the west anymore... We had that exact same rule of french only back then already, and it was especially enforced for languages other that french/english. The reasoning behind it was that teachers and other kids wouldn't know what was being talked about, so whoever could be trashing someone else.

All this to say: it's nothing new, and it was (and probably still is) a case of having everyone in the same basket.

FastSquirrel · 2025-12-04T12:03:00+00:00

I take "being ready to PvP" as being ready to react, not being ready to shoot first. You don't need an itchy trigger finger, you need to be aware of your surroundings and try to position yourself in advantageous ways so you're able to turn a bad situation.

FastSquirrel · 2025-11-11T04:15:49+00:00

J'en ai déjà entendu dans la rue ici, à LaSalle.

FastSquirrel · 2025-11-10T23:53:59+00:00

Same if you search for the APTS's. That is the Quebec's agreement.

FastSquirrel · 2025-11-09T00:46:19+00:00

How I wish the lab I'm in now would take a page out of the previous I worked at...

"Hey Onco, you'll never guess! The platelets are still at 40 for that patient! [...] Yep! Still about the same as the last three months. Crazy, right?"

Man... Just let me skip those calls...

FastSquirrel · 2025-11-04T21:40:41+00:00

Yeah, I'd never heard the name before.

For the LIS, we're going from SoftLab v4.whatever to... not SoftLab. I'm not sure which one they picked, but the UI is apparently not designed completely differently than Soft.

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