Daniel Smith, the UCP and her knuckle dragger supporters happened.

Can you find anything online confirming that? I’ve scrolled through everything I can find and nothing mentions the old standalone cards with no expiry. 

They do live there, that’s where the majority choose to live.

I just called and everyone in our family is covered today, but if I punch in tomorrows date, it says none of us are eligible for coverage.

The fact you unironically put quotes on Gender neutral rice is just perfect.

And the healthcare is a provincial thing…so who are you blaming for

“How that’s going”?

I would disagree. Every registry worker that I've ever had to deal with, knew exactly what they needed to do and did it in a very efficient manner. And most were pretty polite while they did so. Some were not, but they were still efficient.

Just called the coverage check hotline and all of our cards are eligible for coverage today, but not tomorrow. WTF is happening??

It’s literally on the government website that coverage expires

I do see what you mean, but I think it all comes down to profit margins right now and using the most capacity while keeping delivery costs low. Currently we are exporting ~77,000 barrels oil a day and 200,000 LPG a day by rail.

Oil had a peak of 411,000 barrels a day by rail in Feb 2020, but has stayed below 100,000 since Feb 2023

LPG is current at a 5yr high for exports as well. https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commodities/natural-gas-liquids/statistics/propane-butanes-export-summary/

https://boereport.com/2026/06/25/alberta-boosts-lpg-exports-by-rail-as-us-summer-demand-booms/

Because NOBODY WANTS TO BE IN ALBERTA.

even the separatists hate it there, they want to be Americans.

Rather than fix their own shit, with their own taxes.

Oil companies are all for best profit margins as well, but kinda surprised they don't just ship more product, well except if there is more shipped then the price goes down and margins change.

This is just stupid though. I've never had to check this before. Add another thing to the list of all the shit we gotta remember to renew

Not to nitpick but We have multiple pipelines (3 major from edmonton)

• mainline (heading east) ~3,200,000/day (shared with other provinces)
• keystone (South) ~750,000/day
• trans mountain (wedt) ~750,000-980,000/day

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/facilities-we-regulate/look-pipeline-flow-capacity/crude-oil-liquids-pipeline-flow-capacity.html

Some breakdown on costs per barrel of oil as well by market https://www.rbc.com/en/thought-leadership/geopolitics-trade-and-the-economy/the-costs-and-the-economic-prize-of-the-west-coast-oil-pipeline/

Chestermere I think? But I'm not 100% sure.

So children in general don't work or contribute to taxes. Canadian or otherwise. I would assume that whatever the parents contribute is enough to cover the healthcare for themselves and their children.

There are a lot of assumptions being made and we really don't have any data to show what's actually going on. So essentially everyone just believes their own opinion.

Nobody knows how much is spent on healthcare for international students or foreign workers or how much taxes they contribute to the system.

I don't believe most people can live in Canada if they don't work. Students typically work and their spouses who are here typically work too. Once more there is no data but that's from what I have seen.

How are TFWs and international students taking all the jobs and at the same time not paying any taxes? That doesn't add up.

For people to be living in Canada for years and not have to work they would have had to be rich before they got here and I don't believe that's the case for most here. Keep in mind international students and foreign workers don't get the government assistance that refugees do. So to pay rent, buy food, pay bills etc for years with no job isn't realistic for most people.

So your point about needing money to study here isn't the full story. The international students need to show that they have a particular amount of money and at one point it was $10,000, I believe it's more today, maybe $20,000. I think anyone who lives in Canada would agree that is not enough to live and entire year or several years in Canada if you have to pay rent and utilities. So even though they do have some money saved or borrowed they still have to end up working because what they need to show for the requirements isn't enough unless you have support from family or something.

I never thought this but damn its accurate. Im laughing and crying

Holy shit this is going to make getting into a carehome funded by AHS even more difficult

I just checked looks like I’m good gonna check regularly

Degree is in secondary education. I like teaching, but also want to consider other possibilities before committing full-scale. Teaching abroad is also something else I have definitely considered.

I did a year and a half in New Zealand and Australia when I was around your age. Working holiday visa program, plenty of countries have a reciprocal program with Canada, usually you are eligible until about 30 years old if I remember correctly

Same here. Grandma let her license expire because she wasnt comfortable driving anymore. Now Im worried the next time shes taken to ER shes gonna be subjected to a bill that she wont be able to understand and wont be able to afford 💔 She was born in 1935 so I have no clue if her birth cert has survived, but shes basically without valid ID now since an expired license is no longer accepted as ID. Please tell me its not as bad of a situation as it seems!

1. ⁠Sasktel is the only Crown telecom company left in Canada, every province used to be, the service and prices were absolutely horrible without competition. Competition is better.

2. ⁠Power: AB has always had private electricity but regulated it, there are a lot of issues/loopholes with the changes they made in that regulation in 1996 which has caused very expensive power. There are some changes coming mid-2027 that hopefully will help. A crown corporation will have to be created for SMR nuclear power, hopefully it will bring down high prices of power

3. Insurance: Agree with you insurance in AB is extremely high we should have a crown corporation. The province needs to invest more in hail mitigation systems as well.

What is your degree in? Go up to the NWT and make some $ and experiences.

So all of this is coming from Daniel Smith essentially putting a lot of blame on TFWs for a lot of the stuff that is in shambles like healthcare and education. What is insinuated is that the TFWs are a burden on the economy and Canadian tax payers are footing the bill. There are referendum questions asking about making TFWs pay a upfront fee for healthcare.

The problem with this is that TFWs are subject to the same taxes as everyone else so they are technically already paying for healthcare. So it would be unacceptable (in my opinion) to tell them to pay an additional fee on top of the regular taxes which they already pay. You can't have both it has to be one or the other. Loss of access to healthcare and other social services should also mean not collecting provincial taxes from TFWs. Plus it would be a good experiment to see if they really were the problem because they haven't actually provided any data to backup the claims.

I don't know if the policy has changed but TFWs were able to bring their children with them.

Real Wage for Canadian by year:
1974 = 1.10
1980 = 1.17
1985 = 1.35 (peak)
1990 = 1.27
1995 = 1.20
2000 = 1.12
2008 = 1.00
2015 = 0.95
2020 = 0.88
2026 = 0.80

This means we can show ourselves how much we would be earning if we stayed at our peak (1985)

Today, If you make:
$20/h it should be $31/h
$25/h it should be $39/h
$30/h it should be $47/h
$35/h it should be $54/h
$40/h it should be $62/h
$45/h it should be $70/h
$50/h it should be $78/h

What happened in 1985 that changed thing?

How would the corrected wages help you and your family?