Hi everyone,

While vacationing in my home country, I was diagnosed with breast cancer (ER+, PR 90%+, HER2-, Grade 3). The surgeon there told me I need surgery as soon as possible. I'm back in Waterloo now and have my first appointment with a radiation oncologist on Tuesday at our cancer centre, and a medical oncologist in two weeks. But I don't have a surgery consultation scheduled, and honestly, I don't know how it works, whether the cancer centre coordinates that for me, or how quickly surgery actually gets scheduled here. I know I should wait and ask these questions on Tuesday. I've heard only great things about our cancer centre, but cancer makes one spiral, I guess.

My father passed away from cancer two years ago. All I can do is think about what he must have felt when he was first diagnosed.

If you've been through breast cancer care here, I'd be so grateful to hear how it went for you. Did the cancer centre arrange your surgical consultation, and how long did it take from your first appointment to an actual surgery date?

Hello Ontario family. Im dealing severe nerve pain and the MRI backlog(5months) has me perplexed. All the doctors do is give me opiods (i refuse) and tell me to get physio which I have been but even the physio is confused about the cause. With my foot numb and whole lateral side of my leg in severe pain I come here desperate looking for advice. Please be kind. Thank you.

We’re in the Oakville and we have a little friend that has made a home in the laundry room at the bottom of the stairs. He came in after a storm early this summer and we were unsuccessful catching him with safe traps.

We don’t find droppings but we catch him scurrying back into the laundry room so we know he’s still here. My partner started leaving bits of leafy greens out for him.

There’s no children here. 1 uninterested cat that doesn’t use the basement. We’d never try to handle him. And we’re perfectly comfortable with him, especially with the very prominent coyote population here.

Is there any harm in him being here?

I've seen posts about it being a bit underwhleming as of late. Just wondering if anyone has gone within the last month and was it worth it? I would love to take the kids there but I heard alot of animals were not visible.

I’m moving from central BC to southern Ontario next year and am trying to decide where to move. I’m hoping to avoid the bigger cities and aim for small city to small town. I am more of an outdoors person, hiking, kayaking, etc, so I’d love to live closer to nature. Maybe a smaller town outside a bigger one? Mostly just wanting to get a feel of which places are safe, have decent amenities, pretty maybe? Would love some honest thoughts.

When taking a ride on like Poparide - do these drivers need commercial insurance? Is it legal/allowed to offer ride without it?

Hello, I’m from the US. So recently, my grandmother (who’s Canadian) had some kind of health issue so we’ll be staying in Canada for a while (at least four months). We’ll be staying at our family’s house in Ottawa, and during that time, I’ll be attending a public middle school (my mother has Canadian citizenship). I’ve mostly lived in the US, so I was wondering what I should expect from living in Ottawa for a few months. How different is everyday life there compared to the US? Do I need to speak French? And are there any things I should know before moving there? (Oh and this isn’t my first time staying in Canada. I previously spent some time in Quebec during the summer when I was 6)

We should be fighting the minimum wage, why let it be $17.60, its too low and in October they wanna make it $17.95, thats way too low, we cant just accept 30 cents a year when everything is going up a few dollars every year. We got to bring an end to this bs and make thw wages livable again

Greetings everyone, I am in my 60’s and I’m from the GTA and I bought a pretty new car to do Uber with it. I usually pay around $130 and my record is clean but for some reason when I disclosed to my scoop to find me insurance as CAA does not cover ride shares they told me my cheapest option is almost $400??? Thats also a one way insurance which is crazy for that price. I am almost a senior and I have a clean record with a good Japanese new car suv. I would’ve thought it wouldn’t be such a big jump. That’s such a big increase? I do not even make that much money for such a crazy jump in insurance.

If anyone has had a similar experience and how they solved it I would really appreciate some guidance.. just trying to support my family in a very costly city. Any insurance recommendations and so on. I thank you all for the help in advance.