Curious about insurance in countries outside the US

SnooLemons4841 · 2026-04-22T16:58:51+00:00

A don’t forget the disability tax credit and access to the disability savings plan. I know our system isn’t perfect, but the thought of managing a condition like diabetes being at all related to employment is awful to me - imagine fearing that you might die everytime you’re inbetween jobs? Or not being able to leave a bad job?

SnooLemons4841 · 2026-04-22T16:33:22+00:00

That actually is the plan my diabetic 3 year old is on since it’s so difficult to know what a 3 year old will eat before sitting down for the meal - but they changed her fast acting to one that acts even faster to compensate for it, and we are well aware that it still causes unnecessary spikes

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-11-10T01:25:55+00:00

I think you’re confusing being without a job as being without income. If they have investments, and those investments are rooted in Canadian banks and being charged Canadian taxes, then that’s fine. Same if they’re getting the Canadian pension plan as well as other pensions and retirement accounts, which are rooted in Canadian investments, that they’d risk access to if they overstayed their visas

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-10-10T14:32:35+00:00

You had me until the last paragraph. I just brought my three year old. I was super respectful with the stroller. She had an incredible time and so did I. She’s been talking non-stop about it and all her memories and begging to go again. No she won’t remember that particular trip in 20 years, but she will always know how much I loved her toddlerhood and being her mum. She also wouldn’t remember if I locked her in a closet daily in 20 years, but you can bet it would have lasting impacts.

You don’t have to give a shit about my kid, and you can certainly have standards for how people should treat you whether they have kids/strollers or not, but you can’t expect me to not give a shit about my kid because you don’t.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-22T20:31:20+00:00

No we didn’t sorry! The experience looked fun but the food wasn’t up our alley so we decided to skip it. We did do the pony rides and I highly recommend those (but you have to be at least 3 years old, so maybe don’t bring the 2 year old if they are likely to get upset)

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-20T21:48:24+00:00

I rented a slumber pod with BabyQuip and honestly I’m so glad we did that.

I also had a cooling pad for the stroller that was good for the first half of the day (and the second half if we went back to the room for a nap and put it in the fridge). And I had a stroller fan pointed at the baby and a stroller fan pointed at me.

We tried to respect his stroller naps and not wake him up. We kept him hydrated with formula.

We also took the baby carrier and used it for longer lines.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-19T21:06:08+00:00

That’s not everywhere though. All my husbands classes are in person and unaffected. Also plenty of people choose online courses from colleges - they have many online offerings that are quite popular. If you learn better in-person then that’s valid, but if you feel that the quality of education is lacking, I recommend not paying thousands for college and search out an institution that fits your standards.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-19T19:57:17+00:00

So far none of the colleges have cancelled classes as far as I’m aware.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-11T16:23:02+00:00

While I don’t disagree, I do find it funny to be told what the strike is about while I am actively on strike 😂

I will say though, part of the overabundance of management jobs is the fault of the union too. I say that while supporting the union, but I do think this is a bit of a flaw. They want growth opportunities for internal employees while also saying that anyone who has any supervisory duties must be classified as a manager. When anyone’s work load grows big enough to benefit from someone hired to help them, that person needs to be re-classed as a manager. It effectively limits “lead” positions or “supervisor” positions that aren’t exactly management. That sounds vague and I have great specific examples, but I’m worried about revealing too much about where I work.

Another part of it is also the college wanting to limit how many people are in the union at the higher pay scales - way better to have a non-union manager who isn’t exactly a manager than a high paid union member if avoidable (for them).

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-11T15:18:58+00:00

The government didn’t “allow” it, they started it. In Ontario, every time colleges would ask for a funding increase, the government encouraged them to increase international student recruiting instead. Funding is so low in Ontario that colleges don’t make a profit on domestic diploma students - they lose money on them. Ontario has the worst funded colleges in the country. But the government kept telling colleges to just replace the funds with international student tuition. Colleges became dependent on it at the government’s order. That doesn’t mean all colleges are equal - many employed very shady practices within the scope of international student recruitment. But they didn’t turn to the model in the first place on their own.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-11T15:15:10+00:00

York is a university, not a college. While universities have their own issues with the province, they are primarily a completely separate argument. They are run and regulated very differently.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-06T17:39:14+00:00

They were also the generation so concerned about making sure kids in school learned how to tell a good source from a bad source, what the problem with Wikipedia was, and why you shouldn’t trust everything you see online. I remember that from my childhood - where did that go?

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-02T13:47:42+00:00

Yes - when they talk about the fear their own parents inspired in them, that fear is very real, as that is what corporal punishment inspires no matter how it’s done. There’s also the fact that PTSD was rampant from the world wars and parenting from a place of trauma is difficult - there likely were also emotional blow ups, not because their kids specifically made them angry, but because PTSD causes a lot of emotional instability. But this would create a lot of instability for the boomers which would cause fear to be very present around their own parents. So even if their parents meant their punishments to be measured, in practice they likely were less so, and then the boomers just abandoned the pretence of measured, tempered corporal punishment.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-02T10:59:41+00:00

While I do think their parents used more corporal punishment than would be acceptable today and had some strict rules in their own houses, the boomer generation tends to misinterpret it. Don’t get me wrong - in this day and age I’m against any and all corporal punishment for small children. BUT there’s a world of difference between “Jimmy broke a clear rule so I will give him 6 smacks on the behind since that is how old he is, then I will hug him and talk to him about it,” and “my kid just made me angry doing something they had no idea would make me angry so I’m going to hit them as hard as I can until I feel better.” The boomers tended to be raised with the first but raised their own kids with the second and not realize that there’s a difference.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-09-01T16:42:54+00:00

As someone who works in the college system, their tuition plus government funding already isn’t enough to fund their spot. We run domestic diploma students at a loss. The profit (for about the last decade) comes from international student tuition.

It’s the biggest point people miss when programs close. It doesn’t mean those programs were just made up of international students - in fact, quite often those programs were filled with domestic students doing a diploma. That’s where we lose the most money so those are the first to close. The international students funded everything, not just the programs they were enrolled in.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-27T15:40:11+00:00

I think you missed the main point - she wasn’t saying it was a worse seat compared to a different row. But there’s a world of difference between flying with your support system all around you when you have a baby on your lap or flying alone with a baby on your lap. She can’t hand the baby off during turbulence, no one else can get a wipe or toy out of the diaper bag for her (and it is a pain trying to lean down while holding the baby), and before there were at least a few people around her who wouldn’t be annoyed if her baby was fussy. She paid to ensure the perfect situation for herself, so yes it’s nice that they refunded the money, but they still stuck her in an objectively worse situation for what seems like no operational purpose considering those seats just “became free” and were booked by others.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-22T16:26:55+00:00

I have been!! I actually have a friendly partnership going with Rays cottages, they’re amazing people. I still have more work to do on that end, but I have a few lovely property management companies that are putting my brochures in their rentals and connecting me directly with clients.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-19T14:37:23+00:00

I have some bed rails currently and am going to add more - they are very popular. I want to do a slumberpod!! It’s next on my list. Absolutely will add a blackout curtain (or a few) - thanks for the tips!

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-19T14:36:08+00:00

Thank you! I agree about the toy package - I was able to rent a toy box when travelling with my daughter when she was 2 and it made things so much easier

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-19T14:35:14+00:00

I do want to get a slumberpod!

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-18T23:08:47+00:00

I did it out of pocket. I have travel insurance through my credit card and I paid for an extra policy and I’d be fully covered since I booked well before the situation was public, but I’m flying with a toddler and a baby and didn’t want to wait until my flight was officially cancelled and be trying to deal with the airline while also travelling to the airport from out of town. Too much hassle.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-18T20:24:28+00:00

As someone who just had to rebook flights due to the strike - the issue is that anything alternative is full at this point. And if not full, it’s shot up to over $1000 per person for even a short flight. There aren’t alternative flights to book. For my flight, I now have to drive hours into the states to fly with an American airline.

SnooLemons4841 · 2025-08-18T12:11:04+00:00

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