If you have a graduate degree in a particularly in-demand field, you might be able to move to Canada. Our immigration system is set up to select people with high levels of education and skills.
edited 12th Dec '17 7:24:20 PM by Galadriel
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Goddmanit.
Well, there's always the Temporary Foreign Worker program. Do you enjoy doing seasonal farmwork for low pay with very few worker protections?
Canada: Not as nice as you think we are.
Alternatively, if you have the cash/scholarships in place, coming over as a student is a great way to wait 4 years or so out.
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That's my emergency exit. My fiancee is about to complete her second Master's degree and hopefully on Monday I finished a medical related degree. In the worst case scenario, I'm hoping that can potentially open doors for me anywhere in the world. (We've gone a pretty fair way through the process of applying to immigrate through the Skilled Worker Program as way of seeing what our options are, and years ago we did talk about living and working in different parts of the world for awhile, so who knows...)
edited 12th Dec '17 10:03:53 PM by TheWanderer
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Whoever, ordered the schadenfreude...
Canada snubs Boeing in fighter jet deal with Australia
The move scraps an earlier plan to buy 18 new Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets as its so-called stopgap purchase.
It also warned that any bidders for the contract for 88 new aircraft must cause no "economic harm" to Canada.
The clause is an apparent snub to the US-based Boeing, which has targeted a Canadian rival firm in a trade dispute.
"Bidders responsible for harming Canada's economic interests will be at a distinct disadvantage," said federal Public Works Minister Carla Qualtrough on Tuesday.
US aerospace firm Boeing is involved in a high-profile trade dispute with Canadian competitor Bombardier over government subsidies.
Last year the Liberal government said it would explore buying 18 new Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets, closing the "capability gap" in Canada's air power as it seeks a permanent replacement to its CF-18s jets.
But in September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatened to cancel the purchase of Boeing Super Hornets from the US in retaliation over the Bombardier trade dispute.
The procurement process to replace the 30-year-old fleet of CF-18s has been rife with problems and politics.
The former Conservative government originally intended to buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35s, with deliveries slated to begin in 2016.
But the country's auditor general criticised the sole-sourced procurement process for the fighters in 2012.
The contract with US company Lockheed Martin was signed without a competitive bidding process, drawing ire from opposition parties at the time.
In the last federal election campaign, the Liberals unequivocally ruled out buying the stealth F-35 bomber for the Royal Canadian Air Force.
But the Liberals have had a reversal on the F-35s, and Lockheed Martin, which helped develop the aircraft, will be allowed to compete for the contract.
Canada will begin the formal bidding process for the new jets in 2019 for delivery in 2025.
I wish Dassault and Eurofighter the best of luck, with Saab as an outside bet. While Lockheed has addressed the worst of the F-35A's issues, unfortunately Harper and Trudeau took turns rendering it politically toxic.
If Trudeau is willing to tank the political hit over the F-35, and I'm not sure he is, it has a significant edge because Lockheed already has a presence here.
edited 13th Dec '17 8:00:52 AM by Rationalinsanity
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Saab is awesome.
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They've got cool stuff, but they'll need to convince the RCAF that the Gripen NG has the range to do NORAD patrols. The platform is limited in that it was originally designed to defend Swedish airspace, which is a little bit smaller than ours.
If Trudeau is willing to take a bullet politically, it will probably be the F-35A, we are hesitant about the compatibility and logistics costs that would become with European hardware.
But hey nothing can be worse than the F-104 Starfighters, the biggest killer of Canadian pilots after the Luftwaffe.
Oh, bother.
Not sure if this was the best place to post this since it's not really a political matter, but it's the thread with the best chance of having a Canadian respond:
So Canada apparently has dismembered human feet washing up on its shores?
Human foot found on Canada shoreline – the 13th such discovery in a decade
That's something out of a horror movie. For such a polite nation, you guys spawn a lot of terrifying things: Justin Bieber, Ted Cruz, poutine, severed human feet...
edited 13th Dec '17 10:28:47 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
it's a living
Politics, huh? Heh.
It's cold up here (though not as cold as people seem to think). And big, and mostly empty.
Also Vancouver had quite a bit of (for Canada) drug- and gang-related crime that came to something of a head in the mid-2000s, with major police busts and a string of gangland executions quieting things down significantly. Could be these were people whose bodies were poorly disposed of in basically the same way, because with 13 discoveries, only feet, and nobody coming forward to claim the bodies, it's starting to seem pretty unlikely these are all just lost hikers or something.
edited 13th Dec '17 11:06:15 PM by Unsung
Oh, bother.
I know it's not really politics, but as far as I can tell there is no "Canadian Culture" thread or "WTF is this" thread.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
Is crime(?) considered political for the purposes of this forum?
F-35 procurement: I'm fairly certain the "buy F/A-18s from Australia to replace the current airframes while we negotiate a proper replacement" plan is something I've seen being floated as a possibility previously. Well, some folks' crystal balls work better than others...
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Oh, bother.
Like I said, it was the best fit I could think of that would be most likely to have a Canadian troper respond.
Applying Hanlon's Razor to the feet thing, majority of them are probably suicides or (more likely) those lost at sea. Its a big ocean, big coast, and accidents happen.
The original idea was to buy new Super Hornets from Boeing, hold a "competition" that Boeing would almost certainly win (because the Super Hornets would already be there, and we don't have to cash to run a mixed fleet) and fill out the ranks with them. Of course, then Trump won, and Boeing decided to act like the worst stereotype a Canadian can have of an American company.
As a result, the process is interesting now.
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The 2004 Asian tsunami have also put forward as a possible source, and a few have been identified as locals believed to have committed suicide. Could just be that people are focusing on the feet because that makes this seem weirder than it might otherwise be.
It's a comination of currents, and of the power of the ocean pulling apart bodies. Feet, for whatever reason, seem to be more likely than other part to remain intact and float ashore. The feet aren't all from the area, and they aren't due to deliberate dismemberment.
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You're ruining so many WMGs and conspiracies about Canada as The Kingdom with a dark secret. note
edited 14th Dec '17 4:57:41 PM by CenturyEye
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It's because the ankle's a weak point for disarticulation and running shoes float and protect the foot from scavengers. And admittedly the sheltered nature of the Salish Sea combined with the current might actually make them more likely to cluster around all those inlets. But it's still odd.
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Does anyone have any good anti-Quebec separatism pieces? Focusing on the economics angle?
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Canada spends as much on marijuana as wine
The estimate comes from Canada's bureau of statistics, which studied marijuana consumption between 1960 and 2015.
The government has promised to research the drug's affect on the economy and society as it ramps up its plans to legalise cannabis next summer.
The report also found that use has gone up over the years as it has become more popular with adults.
In the 1960s and 1970s cannabis was primarily consumed by young people, according to Statistics Canada.
But in 2015, only 6% of 15-17 year olds smoked cannabis recreationally, compared to two thirds of adults over 25.
Canadians consumed about 697.5 tonnes of pot in 2015, which the report estimated to be worth between C$5.0bn to C$6.2bn.
Since marijuana is not legal yet, the researchers had to estimate its market value, pegging it between C$7.14 to C$8.84 a gram.
Many Canadian provinces have discussed charging about $10 a gram for cannabis once it is legalised. The government's plan, which has been championed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, would legalise marijuana consumption throughout the country but leave its method of sale up to the provinces.
In November, the federal government said it planned to levy a 10% excise tax of C$1 per gram of the final retail price, whichever is higher. The provinces will take home 75% of those revenues.
Under that scheme, the government could stand to rake in almost C$700m a year, if Statistics Canada's estimate proves correct.
Oh dear, the BBC got their information completely wrong.
What the Statistics Canada article says is that only 6% of marijuana users in Canada are age 15-17, not that only 6% of people age 15-17 use marijuana. Likewise, they say that people age 25+ make up about two-thirds of marijuana users (not that two-thirds of people age 25+ use marijuana, which I knew sounded off the second I read it).
The Statistics Canada article also does have data on usage by age group: they estimate that, in 2015, marijuana was used by 24% of people age 15-17, 39% of people age 18-24, 23% of people age 25-44 (with a sharp increase in the last five years), and 11% of people age 45-64. Which fits with the trend that you would expect to see (more use among young people than among older people).
The article is here (the data I'm giving are from charts 1 and 2):
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2017077-eng.htm
The other key finding is that figuring out how much weed people are using is much, much harder than figuring out approximately how many people are using it (Chart 5). So there's virtually no way to accurately estimate how big the market will be, and how much money the tax will bring in, before legalization happens.
edited 19th Dec '17 9:30:16 PM by Galadriel
Everyone's favorite racist Senator, Lynn Beyak, has (finally) been expelled from the Conservative party. She crossed the line not with her antics, but by essentially posting letters of support from the public that were blatantly racist with regards to First Nations.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lynn-beyak-kicked-out-conservative-caucus-1.4474130
Too little, too late in my view, but at least she's finally consigned to the back bench...
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Better late than never.
I never expected this to happen at all.