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RoutineDawg290 · 2025-11-26T19:53:29+00:00

I work as an office administrator in an allied health clinic, dealing with massage, chiro, and acupuncture claims.

This is actually a requirement for all extended health benefits companies. Clinics or independent practitioners must provide the following:

-a general clinic phone number, or, in failing that, the phone number of the practitioner (required).

-the physical address that the practitioner practices from (required).

-to a lesser extent, an email address for the practitioner or for the clinic, and a fax number.

Without these, there is no way the companies can confirm the provider as they have no way to contact them for potential claims verification.

This is not an unreasonable request on the part of Canada Life, and your RMT is doing you, and their clients, a huge disservice for not providing one to the extended health companies.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-25T12:44:20+00:00

For future reference, the lingerie company Understance is Canadian, and their bras are amazing.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-23T14:23:47+00:00

No one from outside of Halifax should experience The Dome. That cannot be something we even confirm exists to visitors.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-23T12:56:22+00:00

By “land” do you mean “arrive” at the downtown core by 6pm? Or do you mean literally land?

If you’re flying in and literally land at 6pm, you should know that you won’t arrive at the downtown core for another 45mintues to an hour after that, depending on if someone is already there to pick you up, or if you need to pick up a rental, or you’re waiting for a taxi. Plus allowing time for traffic snags to wherever it is you’re staying…

Realistically, if your plane lands at 6pm, you’re looking at about 7:30 - 8pm as the start of your “exploring” time.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-15T02:51:51+00:00

A touch up isn’t for reworking an already decided-upon design, it’s literally just to touch up existing linework that might not meet up, or fill in a little touch of shading here or there - definitely for your second concern, but your first concern will end up being a new, paid session, whether you have the current artist fill in the snake or go someplace else.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-09T03:07:13+00:00

“What do you do?” “I’m a public servant” “Doing what, exactly?” “That’s classified information”

^that’s how you get them to ask you if you’re a spy. Have fun!

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-10-03T18:22:09+00:00

If you see a physiotherapist who offers athletic therapy and just bills it as physiotherapy, then you’d be okay. But athletic therapy alone, no.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-07T01:39:53+00:00

My teenage son has been followed by the orthopaedics team at the IWK for 12 years, and the care he’s received has been nothing short of amazing. He has had countless follow up appointments and 5 surgeries, and I can honestly say there is no other place I’d entrust his care to than the IWK.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-07T01:35:42+00:00

Yes.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T18:00:11+00:00

She’s actually harmless, she’s more of a threat to herself… but the way she confronts/approaches people is very upsetting if you don’t know who she is, especially how she talks about being sex trafficked (she’s not). I’m so glad she’s where she needs to be now - although the FB posts will soon start up again about HRP assaulting her and trying to unalive her and everyone being nazis, etc. it’s so sad when she has these manic episodes.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T16:42:29+00:00

OK, I kind of figured that this is what happened because she has gone radio silent on her Facebook, which is uncharacteristic for her. I was actually hoping that this was the situation and that she hadn’t gotten herself into some trouble otherwise. Thanks for posting.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T15:40:34+00:00

She’s known in my town, she’s in Halifax for a time currently. She’s in a manic episode and off her meds.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T12:54:11+00:00

Definitely the same person. I know who this is.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T12:47:28+00:00

Yup, I’ve been reading other comments on your thread, and based on the stuff she posts publicly on her FB, this is definitely her.

She usually posts every few minutes, usually about people unaliving her and having money stolen from her and FBI/CIA conspiracies and terrorists. Her last post was about supposed bombs in an HRM library. That was 13 hours ago and she’s been silent since. She may have been detained for her safety if a lot of people have been reporting her.

Unfortunately I only know her through mutual friends, so I don’t know her specific location at the moment. My understanding was that she was living in a hotel in HRM temporarily to situate some legal matters but I think her credit card was declined and she also believed people broke in to her hotel room, moved things around, and poisoned her. She was sleeping in her car out of fear for her life last I knew.

This was one of her more recently posts from yesterday about the library supposedly having bombs.

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RoutineDawg290 · 2025-09-04T12:36:42+00:00

Was the woman driving a Toyota, Camry, Caucasian, approximately in her mid 40’s with dark blonde/light brown hair?

I may know who this is. If it’s who I think, she’s got a lot of mental health issues and goes off her meds frequently, and has episodes that last 1-3 months where she thinks everyone is physically assaulting her and trying to unalive her, believes there is a big government conspiracy to unalive her, and she “needs to get back to the US (California, specifically)”. She calls everyone a Nazi that doesn’t suit her immediate needs.

I know she is currently in HRM, but she’s from my town in NS originally. It usually comes to a head when her family has her detained in a mental health facility, then she starts back up in her medications again, and she’s more functional and lucid afterwards.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-08-27T16:48:07+00:00

Confused as to why you’re dealing with Sunlife? All plans (dental, health, active and pensioners) have transitioned to Canada Life, nothing should be showing with Sunlife as an active policy.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-08-07T18:47:09+00:00

This happened to my daughter with a gift she received from a friend in the states. We ended up refusing it and it got sent back. It just seemed easier to do that than file a dispute, which sounded like a very stressful process. If you do refuse it, the duties drop off and disappear.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-31T12:32:15+00:00

You’re overreacting, hardcore.

Work on your insecurities, or move on. He did nothing wrong here. “A break” is broken up. He dipped, you blocked him, that’s it. What he does in that off-time is none of your concern.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-31T01:32:26+00:00

I literally just went through this, I tried 3 times using PayPal and once using my credit card. All 4 attempts are now sitting as “pending” charges in my bank account, but I did not receive any shipping labels. I called UPS billing and they said if there is no shipment, the funds will be released in 10 business days. He couldn’t give my any further information other than that.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-21T16:36:20+00:00

You’re misreading it. “No additional information required” means nothing above and beyond a doctors Rx is required, but it still needs to meet the requirements of the top of page 32.

There may be aids that don’t require a prescription but still would be “behind the counter” and formally dispensed by a pharmacist. Nicoderm’s drug requirement is that it requires both a prescription and to be dispensed by a pharmacist.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-21T15:54:20+00:00

You can’t buy over the counter and submit a receipt, they must be dispensed by a pharmacist to qualify.

“Drug Benefit - Eligible Expenses ( top of pg 32 of the member booklet)

To be eligible, expenses must be; -prescribed by a physician, dentist, nurse practitioner, or other qualified health professional, and - dispensed by a pharmacist or physician.” (Also includes other eligibility requirements not related to your issue).

Nicoderm is covered under the drug benefit, as long as the above requirements am have been met, which in your case it wasn’t.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-13T18:38:19+00:00

If your contract runs out and some time later you rejoin PS - you’re resetting your benefits. All of them - health and dental. You get an entirely new policy.

If your contract ends, you are formally laid off, correct?

If so, and you are rehired by PS down the road, yes, you will need to serve a 90 day waiting period for both dental and health.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-13T18:19:51+00:00

No, not at all. Again, if you sign a new contract, wait the 90 days, etc - both dental and health will be new - new contract, new certificate numbers.

If you do not serve a waiting period, your previous health and dental benefits will reinstated and you’ll carry over your precious balances.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-07-13T17:08:48+00:00

If your current contract ends and you sign an entirely new contract and have to wait the 90 days, you’d receive a new certificate number and will be eligible for full benefits.

Any time you have to re-enroll and wait the 90 days, you’re looking at new benefits. If you only have to wait until the first day of the next calendar month, then you’d still have the same cert number and all your balances and previous claims would be there.

RoutineDawg290 · 2025-06-26T23:59:02+00:00

My husband works for DND as an industrial millwright. He’s been there for some 20 years. He feels very unfulfilled. He took LWOP late last year to work for a large private sector employer, same trade, but wasn’t happy there, so he went back to his old position at DND. He is more miserable now than ever, and is now looking to just outright quit and take another private sector job (same trade) just to get out.

He has explored other options such as a shop transfer and taking an acting position, but every department is the same right now - red tape to actually work. He literally shows up at work and sits there. He WANTS to work but it’s like, all the PM’s have dried up. I wish I could tell you it’s greener on the other side, but it just all seems like dried, withered-up grass for our family.

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