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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Shoppers was pretty inept when we were using them. Frequent errors and constantly having to argue with the manager because my 100% insurance coverage wouldn’t cover some meds because the pharmacy wanted a bigger profit than insurance was willing to pay.

    We finally transferred to the pharmacy at Save On Foods and they’ve been pretty solid.

    Ultimately it comes down to the pharmacy manager and their standards. I don’t think a particular chain is going to be any better than any other one across the board.




  • (Engage old fart mode)

    It wasn’t that long ago that Tim Hortons restaurants baked their own donuts in house. Fresh all the time. It was their draw.

    Fast forward and they truck in everything frozen from a manufacturing plant. Things aren’t made there anymore - they’re thawed and assembled. And it tastes like it.

    They used to be legendary for their coffee, but a few years ago they let their agreement with their coffee supplier to lapse. McDonald’s scooped it right up which suddenly put McCafe on the map. Tim’s found a new supplier but the coffee wasn’t nearly as good.

    Aren’t a bunch of their franchises also under investigation for Temporary Foreign Worker program abuse?

    It’s just been death by a thousand really stupid cuts.








  • If Ontario is anything like BC, you won’t have to worry for a while. When my dad needed an ambulance it was over a year before he finally got a $150 bill for the transport.

    There are almost certainly social services available to handle cases when you absolutely can’t afford it. Personally I wouldn’t stress about this until/if you receive a demand for money and then make a decision based on where you’re at.

    Re: our healthcare spending. Canada spends less on socialized healthcare than the US does, and they still have to pay insane amounts out of pocket on top of that. I think Canada is doing fine for healthcare, despite some obvious issues like crowding.

    In Canada, if you’re told you have to wait 9 months for an MRI, you should probably be almost-happy. It means your problem isn’t that bad so doctors are ok letting you wait a bit. It’s when the hospital phones you at home at 11pm and says “umm can you please come in for an MRI RIGHT NOW?” that you should worry. Our triage works really well - I have numerous firsthand and secondhand experiences with it.




  • You should be able to play a video that’s at 100% even if the torrent isn’t complete.

    It could be a codec issue? If you’re using windows there’s a tool called MediaInfo you can install that’ll analyze a video file and tell you if it’s corrupt and what codecs it uses. You might just need to install a codec pack like K-Lite if your system doesn’t already have the codec you need. Or, like an other commenter said, try opening it in VLC which has killer codec support built in.







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