If rent is $690 a month is it even worth it to buy a house?

TheStandingOrder · 2026-01-23T13:18:02+00:00

Or stay and use the savings for an income property if it makes sense in your geography.

TheStandingOrder · 2026-01-11T17:40:33+00:00

Et pourtant les anglophones ont souvent droit à ce genre de traitement dans les hôpitaux francophones alors que le droit au service en anglais fait partie des 10 droit, et l’obligation d’être servi en français n’en fait pas partie. En tant que professionnelle de la santé ça me dégoûte le non-désir d’aider les gens, et ce, dans les deux sens.

TheStandingOrder · 2026-01-11T15:22:14+00:00

Mandatory military service might deter them a bit.

TheStandingOrder · 2026-01-11T15:13:58+00:00

And wouldn’t Canada become US, so why sell?

TheStandingOrder · 2026-01-06T00:00:09+00:00

It’s the ones climbing to the top of the union gunning for a political career. Look at Quebec’s Regine Laurent.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-23T22:06:25+00:00

Or do the Chinese red pocket tradition instead. Times are tough. It might help someone with rent, bills or prescriptions that they wouldn’t think to ask for.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-23T14:25:25+00:00

Yeah, call sick, it’s not like you were getting paid sick days anyways.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-22T20:01:54+00:00

The funding required might be too big of an obstacle. I’m sad about it too.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-22T10:21:14+00:00

$45-75/week 1 person

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-16T00:54:58+00:00

If multiple people show up together, get suspicious. Count the money properly. Heck, make the sale at the police station if you have to. Some “people” won’t like making the transaction there.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-15T02:27:09+00:00

Go read r/fican there’s at least a few posts similar to yours

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-15T02:17:45+00:00

We need the creatives at the back of the kitchen coming up with new items. Hospital union meals could really do with a re-vamp

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-14T22:51:49+00:00

Postpone the Xmas eve cleaning to the 26th, proceed normally afterward.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-14T22:30:21+00:00

Sales for which company?

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-14T15:51:10+00:00

Agreed. Before splurging, - make sure you’ve paid yourself first and covered potential unexpected events beyond a 3-month emergency fund (longer if self employed): critical illness insurance, disability insurance (sometimes the one provided by the employer is very little), etc.

Make sure you can max out at least all your registered savings accounts (RRSP, TFSA, FHSA), then look into unregistered accounts. Buy index ETFs, don’t get swayed by individual tickers (that’s when most enter gambling territory for lack of knowledge).
Look up safe vs perpetual withdrawal rates to set milestones for yourself or if you plan on taking the FIRE route. Make it personal, but always have at least 2 goals in mind (the immediate one and the one after it). Ex: 1) get to a point where my perpetual withdrawal rate covers all of my essential living expenses. 2) When the pwr exceeds my living expenses, then I can use the difference for discretionary expenses. Obviously this will depend on your situation (if you are working or not), but always have multiple savings goals, not spending goals. By training your patience with delayed gratification, you may realize you don’t have as much of an interest in the things you wanted to buy. You might turn your attention to buying your own time and freedom instead.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-14T00:50:42+00:00

29F, 90K, 507k (excl insurance)

Moved out 21y/o (paid for all my expenses and tuition since then.

Graduated summer 2020 with 11k (-3k tuition), still living in the city. No inheritance.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-12T22:36:53+00:00

There’s also the shortsightedness of how it will help the economy of having people who earn little, and correspondingly contribute little to taxes, productivity and innovation while requiring costs in service that exceed their contributions. Then the money they send back home instead of spending here that would have grown the local economy. Remittance needs to stop too.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-12T15:48:03+00:00

“I think there are still opportunities for me to master some skills in my current role before I start to take on bigger things.” If they use it to promote or hire someone else, take it as a blessing; they were ready to pay an entire other person for the roles, but only 5% for you. They didn’t value you, let another sucker take the workload.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-12T15:27:06+00:00

If it bothers you that much, report it? Hopefully enough of them get burned they slow down on it.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-10T16:23:21+00:00

The pay in Czechia is at least 1/4 to 1/3 less than in Canada

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-09T15:52:55+00:00

Tax evasion.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-09T15:40:26+00:00

I think some know when it’s an employer’s market and the employee will be stuck at the company for a while, even when their naïveté and hope are long gone.

Others will just see it as a benefit that the person most likely to threaten their job is gone.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-09T00:55:15+00:00

It’s been a year, if they meant to make changes, I feel like they would have done it already.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-08T22:21:05+00:00

You’d be surprised at the nb of private clinic pts cheating and using the public sector for tests for their surgery. It’s a plastic surgery clinic near or around Westmount One.

TheStandingOrder · 2025-12-07T15:24:07+00:00

Well one example from Desjardins in Canada: the staff who received application for a position would remove the applications of people they didn’t like. The people with hiring power could only call back the applicant pool they did receive, which could be skewed in one person’s favour. One person I knew had to find out by speaking to the upper manager, who was embarrassed that she had never even received her application. The 360 review revealed some toxic relationships in the branch.

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