Canadians often treat moving to the U.S. for a higher-paying job as an automatic career achievement. I think that is wrong.

If someone moves because the work is genuinely more intellectually rewarding, creative, ambitious, or unavailable in Canada, that is worth respecting.

But if they could get equally satisfying work in Canada and move mainly because the U.S. job pays twice as much, why should that be admired? For already well-paid professionals without some major financial need, that looks more like shallow salary-chasing than ambition.

Canada should give more status to intellectual ambition than salary ambition.

Leaving for extraordinary work: admirable.

Leaving mainly for a bigger paycheck: shallow.

P.S. It would be nice if Canadians became known for chasing more intellectually rewarding work, not just bigger paychecks.

Avril Lavigne was super nice and down to earth when I met her.She also took the time to chat with us and signed autographs and posters.I saw her live in concert and she was very good.She also has a great sense of humor.

Justin Bieber refused to sign autographs and told us to go away, was rude and I don't like him.

Be careful of these propaganda‑style accounts popping up across Canadian subs lately. They’ve been flooding threads for weeks, repeating the exact same questions to anyone who engages with them. Some look like bots, others are clearly people, but almost none of them are Canadian.

No matter how many times they get detailed, sourced answers, it doesn’t matter. They just move on to the next person and push the same talking points again. It’s a pattern, not a conversation.

Always check the account behind the rhetoric. Most of these profiles are only 1-2 months old. A few are older (2-5 years), but they all share the same traits: thousands of comments, almost no karma, sometimes even negative karma. That’s not normal organic activity.

If you’ve seen other accounts doing this, feel free to share your experience so people know what to watch for. Im not looking to flame accounts since I dont know the sub rules, just get ppl aware this is happening and share red flags to watch out for.

Don’t let these accounts steer the narrative or wear you down. Stay alert, stay critical, and stand strong for Canada.

Literally every comparison article on this is written for the american market and it's useless once you live here. So here's what's actually operating in canada as far as I can tell

Felix handles the assessment, the prescribing and the dispensing in one flow through its own pharmacy network, with practitioners licensed in your province and medication pricing published by dose. Maple is broader and covers general practice too, working by appointment and sending scripts to a pharmacy you choose. Phoenix assesses you online and ships to your door once a practitioner approves it, with a narrower range of categories than the general platforms. Hims has been expanding into canada on an affordability positioning

What I can't judge from outside is which of these is any good six months in. If you've been with one a while, what changed once you were past the sign up?

I don't have a family doctor and I have no realistic prospect of getting one where I live so I've made peace with the fact that this happens online.

Some vendors prescribe through practitioners licensed in your province and dispense through their own pharmacy network, with medication prices published by dose. Then you have broader virtual care that works by appointment, sends prescriptions to a pharmacy you choose, and some ship direct after an online assessment and match generic pricing.

What I can't work out is which of those differences hold up once you're actually a patient. If you've used some of these, what was different at month three or four?

remember Canada this will always be ours ❤️🇨🇦

Canada should officially rename Lake Erie “Lake America” in response to the U.S. federal government renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

Doing nothing risks allowing the new name to become normalized over time. Even if most people reject “Lake America” today, years of seeing it on U.S. government documents, maps, websites, news reports, and other services could gradually make it seem like an ordinary alternative name for Lake Ontario.

Once a name becomes established through repetition, getting rid of it becomes much harder.

Canada therefore shouldn’t simply hope the rename disappears. It should make the new name difficult to use.

The best way would be deliberate ambiguity: rename Lake Erie “Lake America” too. Then “Lake America” would refer to Lake Ontario under U.S. terminology and Lake Erie under Canadian terminology.

But if the Canadian government refuses to do this officially, Canadians could do unofficially what the government wouldn’t.

Use “Lake America” to mean Lake Erie on social media, websites, memes, videos, merchandise, privately owned signs, and anywhere else people can legally choose their own terminology.

Then whenever someone says:

“There’s a storm over Lake America.”

“Pollution is increasing in Lake America.”

“We’re vacationing on Lake America.”

The obvious question becomes: Which Lake America? Ontario or Erie?

That is the sabotage.

A geographic name is supposed to clearly identify a place. If the U.S. government uses “Lake America” for Lake Ontario while a widespread Canadian grassroots movement uses exactly the same name for Lake Erie, the term becomes inherently ambiguous.

Instead of passively allowing “Lake America” to become more familiar and entrenched with every passing year, Canadians would be giving journalists, companies, mapmakers, and ordinary people a practical reason to avoid it and keep using the unambiguous names “Lake Ontario” and “Lake Erie.”

Ideally, the Canadian government would do this officially. If it won’t, Canadians could start doing it themselves. The longer Canada simply leaves the U.S. rename uncontested in practice, the greater the chance that “Lake America” stops sounding strange and starts sounding normal.

Reddit is an American company listed in the New York Stock Exchange that generates $2B a year from you using it. Every single one of their founders are American. Same with every other major social media company, streaming service and basically every other product you consume that it isn’t some shitty maple syrup.

You Canadians need to stop LARPing, and actually put your money where your mouth is.

This is why no one takes your country seriously.

You are all talk and symbolic gestures but you have no actual conviction on anything.

Canada is an irrelevant country full of irrelevant people

Now that Trump has renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” for U.S. federal purposes, Canada should rename Lake Erie “Lake America” too.

The point would be deliberate ambiguity. Whenever someone mentions “Lake America,” you would have to ask whether they mean Lake Ontario under U.S. terminology or Lake Erie under Canadian terminology.

That makes the new name bad at its most basic job: identifying a place.

Canada can’t stop the U.S. from using the name, but it can make it inconvenient enough that everyone else keeps saying “Lake Ontario” and “Lake Erie.”

What do you think of this idea?

It will never be lake “AMERICA”…

Can someone tell me what this sub is about? I have a hunch "Canadia" isn't just a typo

I love this, eh.