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HeyFellas

HeyFellas

Dawn said:
The Poutine is a french canadian classic! And it's excellent :D

It looks like this.
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Mmmm, looks so good. They look like real chips too. Do you call them chips or fries in Canada, or something else? :glugglug:

Dawn said:
... my hockey team isnt going well lately.
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Wait a minute, you're not a Canadeans fan are you? Ottowa I could live with but Montreal.......well, the Leafs will whoop you anyway.

I think.......:1orglaugh :wave2:
 
Dawn

Dawn

HeyFellas said:
Mmmm, looks so good. They look like real chips too. Do you call them chips or fries in Canada, or something else? :glugglug:

Wait a minute, you're not a Canadeans fan are you? Ottowa I could live with but Montreal.......well, the Leafs will whoop you anyway.

I think.......:1orglaugh :wave2:
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We call them fries (or frites in french).

And yes, im with the Canadien. I'm from Montreal! :D
 
jibbijib

jibbijib

ChefChiTown said:
What's the restaurant scene in Canada? Is it mostly Mom & Pop places? Corporately owned chain restaurants? Individually owned and operated restaurants?

Are the restaurants more "down to earth" home-cooking type of places, or is there a good amount of fancier restaurants?

:dunno:
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There's tons of corporate chain restaurants, but at least in Ontario, there's always quite a few privately own restaurants. Alot of Italian influence. It's basically the same as what you would get in the states. Alot of specialty restaurants and all that as well. Theres been a large influx of fancy pants restaurants, but alot of people still swear by their local family restaurants.
 
M

MichealMayhem

Banned
Wheeler Ronan said:
Is it really true that socialized medicine is better than the bullshit stuff we have here?
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My final word on it is as follows...

I had two friends in hospital at the same time. One in Toronto and the Other in Los Angeles.

The one in Toronto needed a heart transplant. The one in Los ANgeles needed a kidney stone removed.

The heart transplant patient in Canada was in a semi private room (2 patients to a room) for 11 days then required 3 months of part or full time in home care.

The Kidney Stone Patient in LA require two doctors appointments, a 2 hour surgury and was discharged the same day with one follow up appointment.

The Toronto Heart transplant ended up with a bill of zero dollars.

The kidney stone patient (who pays 363 dollars a month in health insurance premiums per month) had an out of pocket expense of about $3800. That's out of pocket...after the health insurance company denied some tests.

So really the question becomes would you rather have a free heart transplant or $3800 kidney stone
 
PlasmaTwa2

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Dawn said:
How much % do you think are unhappy with Quebec not leaving in other provinces? I have no clear idea on that myself.

In Quebec, there is a 30% of the french population that are totally sold to the Independance idea, whatever happends.
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I would say 5% of the educated, mature population thinks that Quebec should hit the road. Most of the people out here who want Quebec to leave are idiotic teenagers who want them to leave cause they think they ar different and better then the rest of Canada. To quote someone I know, "those pricks want to leave anyway, so why not kick them out?"
 
L

lovejoy

Canadian health care system is far much better managed than in the States. My brother-in-law had liver transplant at Toronto General Hospital and costed nothing. The liver transplant would have costed him well over 2 million dollars (including post-op immunosuppressive medications which is well over $2,000.00 a month. And he is travelling on trips after 1 year of liver transplant and doing well)

As many said in this thread, American health care system is far superior in technology and much more efficient than Canadian in term of emergency care, neonatal care, and high risk pregnancy.

There is no such thing as "Universal Free Care". It is just everyone contributed through additional 15% tax higher than American.

The British system is a combination of private and public health care system but the rich received the best care in UK.

There is no "one best system". Canadian system as well as Australian system appears to be one of the best but considered 31 millions and 22 millions people compared with well over 300 million people in US.

If you are healthy and well, then the American system is the best to suit you.

If you require a lot of medical care, then the Universal Health Care system like European, Canadian and Australian are better to suit you.

The Nordic countries also provide one of the finest medical system in the world with the best rehabilitation and post-op care.

Overall, Obama will face stiff opposition to provide Universal Health care system to ALL American due to the fact the Republican will derail his program. Just look at the BIG THREE bailout how the Republicans in the Senate voted against the plan.

President-elected Obama is just a slick salesman and now the real Obama is showing his colour: anti-gay, anti-abortion and pro-Isreal and stop talking non-sense about GUN-CONTROL.
 
L

lovejoy

MichealMayhem said:
My final word on it is as follows...

I had two friends in hospital at the same time. One in Toronto and the Other in Los Angeles.

The one in Toronto needed a heart transplant. The one in Los ANgeles needed a kidney stone removed.

The heart transplant patient in Canada was in a semi private room (2 patients to a room) for 11 days then required 3 months of part or full time in home care.

The Kidney Stone Patient in LA require two doctors appointments, a 2 hour surgury and was discharged the same day with one follow up appointment.

The Toronto Heart transplant ended up with a bill of zero dollars.

The kidney stone patient (who pays 363 dollars a month in health insurance premiums per month) had an out of pocket expense of about $3800. That's out of pocket...after the health insurance company denied some tests.

So really the question becomes would you rather have a free heart transplant or $3800 kidney stone
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First of all, the heart transplant done at Toronto General Hospital Munk Cardiac Centre is NOT free. All Ontarian pay an additional health tax and GST, PST and additional income tax and the numbers of heart transplant done at Ontario (Toronto General Hospital and Hamilton Health Care Centre) are very small compared with Texas M.D. Anderson Heart transplant center.

American performed well over 1,000 times more heart transplants than Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital but the cost of heart transplant shot up from $250,000.00 in 1986 in US to well over 1 million not counting post-op care. And if you are poor and have no insurance and a minority, good luck to you to get good health care, you will probably be cared for by a student doctor or doctor in training at a large inner city hospital which is not really bad but the death rate is just too high !
 
L

lovejoy

MichealMayhem said:
My final word on it is as follows...

I had two friends in hospital at the same time. One in Toronto and the Other in Los Angeles.

The one in Toronto needed a heart transplant. The one in Los ANgeles needed a kidney stone removed.

The heart transplant patient in Canada was in a semi private room (2 patients to a room) for 11 days then required 3 months of part or full time in home care.

The Kidney Stone Patient in LA require two doctors appointments, a 2 hour surgury and was discharged the same day with one follow up appointment.

The Toronto Heart transplant ended up with a bill of zero dollars.

The kidney stone patient (who pays 363 dollars a month in health insurance premiums per month) had an out of pocket expense of about $3800. That's out of pocket...after the health insurance company denied some tests.

So really the question becomes would you rather have a free heart transplant or $3800 kidney stone
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All post-op heart transplant patients go to ICU in the first 2 days and then transferred to semi-private room which is the laws governing in Ontario but you can upgrade by paying as little as $180.00 to get a private room and additional TV fee at Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital.
 
V

ViruSphere

Poutine and Montreal Smoked Meat are two things that not only English Canada is thankful for, but the rest of the world should be.

As for languages, having English and French has its pros and cons. Yes it's culturally diverse, but depending on the area you live in many jobs may ask you to be bilingual, which in Canada means being able to fluently speak, write and understand English and French. My niece goes to a 50/50 elementary school, meaning that half of the day her classes are taught in English while half are taught in French. Not all schools are 50/50; some are predominantly English and others are predominantly French.
 
Dawn

Dawn

ViruSphere said:
Poutine and Montreal Smoked Meat are two things that not only English Canada is thankful for, but the rest of the world should be.
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Now, thats something totally montrealer! If you ever come to Montreal, you must try the smoked meat! :tongue:
 
ChefChiTown

ChefChiTown

The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
If people from Canada are called "Canadians", then why is the NHL hockey team called the Montreal CanadiEns?
 
Dawn

Dawn

Ronnie James Dio was raised in New York State... close enough to the canadian border :D
 
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