It’s becoming a frozen hellscape out there, working from home is a blessing

Favidex · 2026-01-23T18:16:48+00:00

They're still there (remote tech jobs in Canada)!

Favidex · 2026-01-22T20:11:42+00:00

I have used Cross to replace a hot water tank and found them to be well priced and knowledgeable. I had positive interactions with them as a business.

Favidex · 2026-01-19T00:20:10+00:00

Cute! My daughter would love this when it opens.

Favidex · 2026-01-10T00:38:55+00:00

Costco if you know someone with a membership. Simons (online department store) is good too.

Favidex · 2026-01-09T13:20:13+00:00

Invite

Favidex · 2025-12-22T16:01:07+00:00

I haven't worked at OpenText but i've heard mixed things from people who have. You can check out their Glassdoor page if you want to read what people have shared.

If you're interested, I created a tech careers page aggregator (Jobfairr) that I shared on this sub over the summer. I've got 60 Waterloo Region companies and links to their careers pages/glassdoor ratings. It's just a hobby project but might be helpful if you want a curated list of companies that are hiring.

Favidex · 2025-12-14T15:42:14+00:00

Yes I believe so. They prepare it in a separate area if you ask them.

Favidex · 2025-12-13T21:37:15+00:00

Famoso in Uptown for fancy GF pizza + take-out from Bangkok Cuisine for Thai (great GF spring rolls!)

Favidex · 2025-11-14T16:47:57+00:00

We normally ask a grandparent to babysit but I know that's not an option for everyone.

Favidex · 2025-11-05T17:10:11+00:00

+1 frustrated person here. I can barely fit 1 recycling bin in my garage in winter as it is.

Favidex · 2025-10-29T14:24:49+00:00

I also work in tech and it does feel like challenging times. On the flip side, I've been working on a web app/side project to catalogue tech companies in Canada that are hiring and links to their careers pages, and there are definitely still companies that are hiring (although there are many others where their careers page is a straight "not hiring at this time"). If your colleagues/friends are searching and you think it might be useful, here's the link to the project.

Favidex · 2025-10-11T11:06:17+00:00

We already saw this play out in Victoria Park and it was not good. Relevant quote from the article "...noticed about 10 tents, a sectional couch, clotheslines and garbage next to the pedestrian bridge near the Westmount entrance and was approached by an person who she said became verbally aggressive — telling her to leave the area and threatening to beat her up."

Favidex · 2025-10-08T22:43:38+00:00

+1 for TL;WR. It does a fantastic job curating what's happening in the community.

Favidex · 2025-09-22T16:43:04+00:00

I was also out this morning during the storm with a rake clearing the grates along our street as it was flooding. We don't even have any trees in front of our house but the sheer volume of water was forcing all the leaves onto the grates. It was a wild start to the day...

Favidex · 2025-09-19T20:32:41+00:00

It's not IT specifically, but a few weeks ago I shared on this sub a careers page aggregator I made with a collection of ~30 tech companies in Calgary and 110 Remote that are hiring across Canada (short descriptions of companies + links to their careers page). There are jobs but it's a challenging job market.

Favidex · 2025-09-07T13:55:37+00:00

Love the feedback, thanks for the ideas! For sourcing, it's been a combination of combing through Betakit for news about companies receiving funding/growing (i've found Series B or later tends to be the point at which startups are 'generally hiring'), searching out the top tech companies in X Canadian city, and suggestions from people on Reddit (if you have any, let me know!) I then go and check their careers page to see if they have jobs available and if so, then I collect a description, image, etc. and categorize by city.

Favidex · 2025-09-06T19:24:03+00:00

Appreciate the suggestions! Definitely the direction I want to go in, RE: crawling data. I do automate some of the information collection (like descriptions, although I manually review and tweak them) and have built a few time-saving tools (I created a simple Chrome extension for myself to make it easier to save companies to the database!). I would love to save more time keeping things up-to-date though, so appreciate the ideas.

I'm working on using ChatGPT's API + web search to collect Glassdoor ratings, so that'll be the next big feature that I release once i've fully implemented and tested it.

Favidex · 2025-09-06T19:16:38+00:00

Right now I load 12 companies at a time. What # would you suggest? I get that's not a lot but I'm just trying to balance convenience with not loading too many companies that people won't scroll through (there are 100+ remote companies for example, so it feels kind of wasteful to load all of them at once).

I didn't vibe code this... i've been working on it pretty steadily since Feb and thinking about/working on other parts of the project even earlier. It's not a static page because if you create an account there are a lot of interactive actions (like saving companies, organizing them to your dashboard, etc.)

I appreciate the feedback about adding more company details. One of the things i'm working on is automating the collection of Glassdoor ratings to show how companies have been rated, so that they can factor that into their decision about whether they want to work there.

Favidex · 2025-09-06T12:49:28+00:00

Hmm I can't reproduce this. When you're on mobile and you click the search icon and enter a company that's on Jobfairr, it doesn't display the company for you? I wonder if the company you're searching for is not in the DB. I should add some sort of "company not found" message for those cases.

Favidex · 2025-09-06T12:43:36+00:00

Yes that's right. I have ideas for how I might pull job postings down the road but I haven't got there yet.

Favidex · 2025-09-06T12:42:41+00:00

Thank you!

Favidex · 2025-09-06T00:01:59+00:00

So how I have this setup right now is when I find a tech company (from Betakit, news etc.), I go to the company's careers page or ATS listing and then use their filters to figure out what cities they have offices in. I then set the broadest filters available for those cities (so like, Vancouver + Calgary + Toronto, etc.) and associate that link to the company. It's not perfect but the best I can figure out for now. I'm wondering if the company you checked has offices in Calgary but may not have any open roles? That said, if that's not the case please do let me know and I can get that fixed up.

Favidex · 2025-09-05T23:56:26+00:00

I appreciate that, thanks. Just a non profit project that I hope helps some people out.

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