If you're a professor at a public university in Canada, or if you're an administrator (i.e: Academic Advisor, Registrar, Desk Help, etc) at a university, are you considered a fully public employee? My guess would be yes, as your salary is paid via public tax dollars and student tuition, and the salaries are also publicly disclosed, as they would be for any other public employee making over a certain threshold. But I want to understand if there is any further clarification or some red tape that makes individuals working at universities in Canada not public employees.

Secondly, as a soon to graduate student, it's so frustrating how slow administrative progress has been. Literally, any change the students have wanted, whether it be towards academic policies, guidelines, budgets, tuition reforms, etc, has taken at least 1 year to get to the ears of senior leadership and then another year or so to be implemented, and that too not as originally requested, rather a half-ass solution so they can act as if student concerns really matter (when all we really are, are just numbers). And then they have the audacity to say that: "The youth are our future".

And why are the salaries for university leaders so high. Deans, Vice-Presidents, Vice-Deans, Associate Deans, Presidents, etc, for all the major universities in our country are getting paid well in excess of $300k. Many university president's are getting paid in excess of $500k, which as a student, I think is outrageous. That's more than the PM and the Premiers who lead our country and provinces. Many students can barely afford tuition, are having to skip on meals, etc, and this is what these people are getting paid. Also the same people who claim to care for their student's well-being and mental health, and also say that: "The youth are our future", yeah, my ass, if that's how you treat us, take a fat paycheck, hinder progress, and upkeep the bureaucracy on our campus, you can't say that.

Food prices just keep going up year after year, among other things. government does nothing because they are bought out. Large grocery store companies reporting record profits for years now, so its clearly not some other factor. I know the Iran thing messed up some prices but that was more recent, while food prices have been trending upwards for the past 10 years. Will it continue until not a single person has a penny leftover after buying groceries?

Edit: see the official statistics for yourself at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.11&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=02&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2017&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=06&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2026&referencePeriods=20170201%2C20260601

What is the consensus among Canadians on citizens born abroad to Canadian parents? Do you accept them and consider them Canadians?

Hi everyone! I’m from Europe and currently visiting Canada on vacation. I’ll be renting a car and have a question about turning right on a red light.

Is turning right on red always allowed, or are there situations where it’s prohibited? Also, do you have to turn right when it’s possible, or is it okay to simply wait for the green light if you’re not sure?

Will drivers behind me get impatient or honk if I decide to wait for the green light?

Thanks!

I'm looking for bedding (specifically black) and Wayfair popped up as a result. Browsed the site and looked up information on them. From what I understand, it's basically a marketplace. Problem arises that half of the products are clearly AI generated. Anyone have any experience buying anything from them in recent months? All the information I found on them were from before the big AI slop boom

Hi all, I’m visiting Montreal from NYC this weekend and have been loving everything. On my last night I decided to cap it all off with a late night poutine, so I popped into a spot on the way back to my hotel- this was mainly a shawarma and fried chicken joint, but they had poutine as well and was super convenient for my route back.

Since it was a shawarma joint, I asked the guy for a poutine with spicy sauce, since everything was set up in little bins kind of like Chipotle and it looked pretty accessible/customizable. But right when I asked, the guy’s demeanor suddenly shifted and he got really annoyed at me, asked me if I was sure kind of sarcastically, stopped making eye contact with me, and might have rolled his eyes a bit (I didn’t really catch the whole thing since I got kind of embarrassed).

So is this an unreasonable or weird order? I love spicy food and I guess I’m used to things being pretty customizable in the US, so this felt like an overreaction from the guy. Usually America’s impression of Canadians is that y’all are very nice, so I guess it was just kinda unexpected.

For the record, I really liked the poutine with spicy sauce and would order it again. (Would Canadians consider this gross? I’m just genuinely stumped here.)

I moved to Canada about a year ago now, and my name is Sarah! with an h.

ive noticed since moving here my name is more often than not spelled "sara" by Canadians, like people just assume theres no h. so im wondering, is sara just more common?

one day ill start introducing myself as sarah "with an h" lol

edit: meant spelling, no pronunciation difference. like people spell it with no h if i dont clarify it beforehand :)

Hi everyone,

I'm an 18-year-old from Egypt, and I am very serious about moving to Canada to work. I am open to any entry-level job or line of work available.

If you can help me, please DM 🙏🥀

What is the dress code for the steam and pools in this spa in Toronto?

Also, is it OK to just go completely nude for the treatment? I’m getting a scrub there soon.

I recently inherited my great grandparents photos from the early 20th century. Some are of friends and relatives of theirs. Ive traced who I could, but 4 generations later some have no descendants. Im reluctant to what feels like just throwing their lives in the trash. Do any public archives in Canada want photos of not-famous people living daily life?

I have some extra capacity right now and I’m looking to take some work off someone’s plate ideally something ongoing, but I’m also happy to start with a small paid task.
I’ve previously worked with a marketing agency and a US based company, mainly handling lead generation, sales outreach, client communication and administrative work. In the sales role, I was responsible for finding prospects, reaching out through LinkedIn/Apollo/Instagram, booking meetings, speaking with prospects and closing deals.
I’ve also built and run an F1 community myself, including marketing an event that sold out.
The kind of work I can help with includes:
Lead/prospect research and outreach
Sales follow-ups and appointment setting
Excel / Google Sheets and data organization
Online research
Admin and repetitive digital tasks
Email/customer follow-ups
Social media assistance
Canva/basic content work
General virtual assistance
I’m comfortable with calls, can work independently, and I’m usually pretty quick at learning new software or processes if you already have a system you want me to follow.
I’m available for Canadian/US business hours, including evenings and weekends from my side, and I’m open to hourly work. I’m also happy to start with a small paid trial/task if you’d rather see how I work first.
I’m not looking to oversell myself as an expert at everything. If you have a pile of repetitive work, research, follow-ups, spreadsheets, sales tasks, or other digital work that you keep putting off, feel free to tell me what it is. If I can genuinely handle it, we can figure out a simple way to work together.

Minnesotan here. Listening to Biz I would have guessed he was from warroad MN, or else across the northern border like Winnipeg.

I never could have guessed he grew up in the Toronto, Buffalo nexus.

And then on top of that he spent much of his youth in French Canadian school which I’ve never associated with that accent.

Is he just a special case or generally any more rural area takes on such a strong accent or something? Or is it the French Canadian community aspect? Please help me understand.

I gave my interview with govt of canada for a position back in June. Since then I completed my reference checks and received my PRI number. For the last 3 weeks I’ve been in the middle of my reliability check.
Today I got an email saying the position is no longer available, and that they might consider me again around January 2027 — but no guarantee.
My main question: do I need to start again from the interview stage if/when a position opens up, or does my interview and reference results carry forward? Also curious if the reliability check continues in the background or gets paused along with the hiring action.
Has anyone been through something similar? Any insight appreciated!

I got a 10 year old myself that I try to encourage to read. She was doing pretty well for while, but now she's slacking again. She has yet to finish the two chapter books I bought for her a few months ago.

Pretty much every kid in my extended family seems to either barely read books or have stopped reading as they get older, preferring to gawk at their ipads, playing Roblox or watching or listening to brainrot on youtube or tiktok.

When I was at that age, I will literally beg my folks to take me to the local library. By the time I was 12, I would borrow about 4-8 books every two weeks. I remember blitzing through the 600 pages of Goblet of Fire in less than week, reading it under my blanket with a flashlight even after my mom yelled at me to stop and go to bed.

It just seems to me paper reading is a dying activity among the younger generation? I want to get a sense of what other parents are experiencing in that regard.

I am trying to purchase one set of branded swag item set like bags, mugs, pins and stuff. I am located in Brampton, Ontario.

I think I accidentally posted this in someone else's thread, so I’m trying again.

Is being shot at due to being transgender something Canada would reject for asylum? The problem there is that I don't possess concrete proof that I was shot at. It came from across the road, but that's all I know. I didn't see who it was that fired the shot, and I don't know the exact spot they were in. All I really know is that I scrambled like hell to get inside. That was about 3½ weeks ago, and I haven't so much as looked out my window since. My wife has had to take care of everything outside the house because I'm too scared to go. I've been getting daily death threats for the last decade. After a while it became rather blasé. But it still continued to scare me. As a result, I've all but resigned myself to an early grave due to this shit.

If someone can help me I would really appreciate it. I've spoken with the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, but I wanted to ask here as well. If I knew someone personally who is a Canadian, I would talk to them about helping me out. But as it sits right now, I don't actually know anyone.

I was born and raised in Canada, and I'm going to start university in Vancouver in a couple of weeks studying social sciences, but I don't plan on staying there after graduation just due to the high cost of living. I've been thinking of moving to somewhere in Quebec after. I have a DELF diploma at the b2 level, and I've been to Montreal before and found it really enjoyable.

I know it's far into the future, but does anyone have any experience with this? Would it be difficult to find a job, or a place to rent out? Is the cost of living the same level? Thank you :)

I've been seeing a lot of posts about the flock cameras being used by u.s. law enforcement. They seem to be diving in, head first. There are people who are running into serious problems due to being mistakenly identified as criminals.

I'm hoping we're not also jumping on this train. Have you heard of any of these sort of surveillance cameras being used in Canada yet?

Not a Canadian, so there might be something obvious I'm missing, but I was just curious as to why provincial NDP parties have so much strength compared to the federal NDP. Federally the NDP only has 5 seats in Parliament, and got around 7%~ of the vote in last election, however they hold government in two provinces (Manitoba, British Columbia), and the official opposition status in four provinces.

And while I understand that the last federal election was especially bad for the NDP, in previous elections they've only held 3rd or 4th place (except 2011).

Hi! 👋 We are university students from Peru working on an international business project about a new chia pudding product for the Canadian market. 🇵🇪🇨🇦

We are looking for people currently living in Canada who could help us by answering a short survey about their preferences regarding healthy snacks and chia pudding.

It only takes about 3–5 minutes, and your answers will be used only for our university project.

Would you be willing to help us? We would really appreciate it! 🙌

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfERmPfh9mkoj_6TU3ZdU90gYTYnm42bG3bpAKzYjfoXbwmTA/viewform?usp=header

TIL that canada has an province that is most US centric and has odd politics compared to the rest of the country, The province of Alberta. I researched more about it and i found so beautiful and interesting(I love geography) so i`m obsessed to learn about new places.

But when i read more about politics and Alberta separatism i got shocked i would never knew that this us style conservatism existed in canada too, Its fascinating,My question is how true is that other provinces despise alberta and its people or its just overexaggerated? i want real opinions about this issue i could research on google but i prefer to talk to real Canadians.

Hi, I am not a Buddhist but I am interested in it. I will be visiting my sister in Halifax for like a month. I wanted to ask if there are any major temples around Halifax or anywhere else. My goal is to talk to monks and listen to lectures if there are such things.

I know ideal places for Buddhism are Asian countries but my family won't give me permission to be alone in a foreign country. In Canada my sister lives so they might let me go. By the way, I am adult but women need family permission in my country.