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Specifically, Moncton and that area.

In the Moncton area, you have a casino, an amusement park (Crystal Palace), and a major water slides park (Magic Mountain).

There are hiking trails, places to go boating, fishing, play on a beach, and watch the tides. There is a place called Magnetic Hill that people have been coming to see for years, where your car appears to be rolling up a hill instead of down.

There are great little restaurants to try some Acadian cuisine, lots of shopping and events to go to.

All you have to do is figure out what your interested in doing and then see if they have something like that nearby. If you like the outdoors or the sea, New Brunswick is a place to visit.

nothing. not one thing. i don’t even know why people live there! There’s nothing to do! They probably even made a website for tourists.It doesnt make any sense. Why waste all that time and money to make a website and call it http://tourismnewbrunswick.ca/ when theres **** all to do there.

Honestly, don’t even bother with that place. You can’t do anything there.

you can go to Magic Mountain, its a reeeeally fun water park.

You can breathe and walk

The Old Triangle Irish Ale House

Hi everyone, I am an american and last year I decided to spend my summer in Canada, during my travels I bumped into a guy that told me about cherry picking so I joined up with him, although I stayed for very little time I made good money, the problem was that some of the bigger orchards (where the real money is) ask for papers, I would like to try this again but with all my papers straightened out so I can do this legally and wherever I want I’m just not sure what i have to do to get a temporary work permit in canada as an american, can anyone help me out? I’ve googled it but it usually talks about having technical skills in IT or to be invited by a company to work there. All I want is to pick cherries legally, anyone?

Looks like, as an American, it won’t be simple to get agricultural work in Canada. Have fun wading through this: http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceskil??

No work permit for seasonal cherry pickers. Only people from the Carribbean come here to dothose jobs in Canada.

Okey, so i applied to this University(WLU) for bachelor’s in business administration but since the seats were full, they offered me a diploma in accounting, at first i though i would take it up and i can transfer a semester or two but when my friend calledthe University asking that if I can transfer from the diploma in Accounting to BBA, they said I cannot since the "normal" criteria for the admission in Accounting was having an undergraduate degree which obviously i do not hold !
The Universities site clearly said that the "general requirement" for Accounting is undergraduate degree not that it has to be compulsory, so my question is since I do not hold an undergraduate degree, i can transfer to the BBA program in the same University? I cannot call them (some problem), i can only reahc there campus a week before their September session begins.
If not, can i transfer to another college for a diploma in Business Administration , the credit transfer can be easy since basically both the courses have almost the same subjects . What do you think will i be able to another college or same University?
Thankyou !

Faith, Are you repeatedly asking the same (or similar) question, hoping that someone out there will give you a different answer? Honey, this is your life and your future, not ours. And you are leaving it up to a few strangers on the internet for advice.
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind??

You were on the right track, or at least your friend was, when she called the university. I would call the student recruitment officer or the welcome centre coordinator and see if they have anyone there who can answer a few questions for you about the programs you are interested in. Don’t be afraid to ask them questions, that is what they are there for. They are "ambassadors" for their school and they want people to attend, so they want to try and get you the info you need to make an informed decision. WLU has a tour you can take to see what you think of the school, and you can ask questions exactly like what you are asking here.
http://www.wlu.ca/fac_listing.php?grp_id??

If you are asking us here (and I admit I am no expert on WLU), I would say that like most other universities, changing programs often involves meeting certain pre-requisites and having to wait for the appropriate opening to become available.

It sounds to me like they offered you a spot in Accounting and now another person is telling you no, you are missing some prerequisites. So before you accept and pay some fees only to find out you don’t even meet the requirements, talk to someone there. Get your facts from them, preferably in writing if you can. You say you cannot reach them?? Then how did your friend reach them?Very confusing.

I don’t even know you, but I am nervous for you. I worry that you are going to put this off and put this off, and maybe miss a deadline, and then won’t have an opportunity to attend ANY university this September! So please be sure to ask around. Call any numbers you can and speak with someone at WLU. Go to the campus if necessary and find the administration building. If they don’t give you an answer that makes sense (to me being available only a week before school starts makes no sense), maybe you should start looking at other schools.

Sounds like they told you you cannot enter the programme you want.

Just a word of advice, time is getting short to apply anywhere else.

We’ll be pulling into Halifax next week, stay there 3 days, and then head north towards Meat Cove. We will visit the Titanic memorial and a cemetery where many of the victims are buried. We already visited the Bell Museum during a previous trip. What are we interested in? Well, just about anything. Not so much night-life, like clubs and such. If we have to hike a bit to get to an interesting site, such as a Viking – era archaeological site or some natural wonder, that’s good too.

What the other person said: Lunenburg and Peggy’s Cove.
Additionally, the insanely extreme tides along the Bay of Fundy shoreline – http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/?? http://www.maxximvacations.com/media/ima?? are something you have to see to believe.

If you or those you’re travelling with ever had the urge to dress up in a kilt, consider trying the Soldier for a Day at the Halifax Citadel – http://www.pc.gc.ca/voyage-travel/voyagi??
It’s not cheap, but the vacation photos are memories to last a lifetime.
(They also have a ghost tour that’s fun.)

Also consider visiting the restored French fortress of Louisbourg.
There’s lots to see and do there too – http://www.fortressoflouisbourg.ca/

You said you’re heading north towards Meat Cove.
Getting there means driving the Cabot Trail part of the way.
It’s some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere, so consider exploring the whole route – http://www.novascotia.com/site/media/nov??
(It’s especially gorgeous in fall when all the leaves turn colours – http://www.naturesamerica.com/files/Cabo?? )

As for other suggestions, check out Nova Scotia’s tourism website – http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/things??
Lots of categories to choose from in order to mix and match what everyone would most enjoy.

Whatever you end up doing, have a great trip!

I loved Lunenburg, and Peggy’s Cove is cool.

Hello.
My son has been diagnosed with rheumatism (rheumatic fever) and Sydenham chorea. We are gonna fly out to Montreal to try and find him treatment. Do you know any good hospitals and clinics? I have been searching endlessly. Please give me some websites and/or information.

Thank you very much.

Any hospital in Montreal will treat him however be advised that you will be paying 100% of the bill yourself and if you are from a country where a visa is needed you will most likely be denied.Also, if they hospital finds out you brought him to Canada, while sick, you will most likely be reported to authorities.

I think you’ll have trouble negotiating the healthcare system if you’re from outside the province, or worse from outside the country. The only thing you can do is go to a general hospital and get a referral–you can’t go straight to a specialist. If your son is under 18, then you can go one of our children’s hospitals: the Montreal Children’s Hospital, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, CHU Sainte-Justine or Shriner’s Hospital.
If you’re a Quebec resident, you won’t have any bills. If you’re from another province, you may get by with your out-of-province health card, or you may be given bills that you have to submit to your home province’s health insurance program. If you’re from another country, then you will be given the bills that you can either pay out-of-pocket or submit to your travel insurance/health insurance company if applicable.

There is a private sector in Quebec, but it’s "members only." You must either have private insurance that gives you access to private services, or pay membership fees directly to a private clinic. If you’re from out of the province, you won’t have access to these services.

1.Hospitals in Montreal suck
2.Where are you from?
3.Why aren’t you getting treatment where you live?
4.Why are you taking a sick kid on a plane?

how much are they i need to know because i wanna move there. but need to know please ?

Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world so it will depend on where in Canada you are looking at flying to.Toronto? Ottawa? Montreal? Halifax? Calgary? Edmonton? Regina? Saskatoon? Vancouver? Winnepeg? You will have to look up on the internet prices to some of those places to get an idea.But you can’t just move there, you can stay for up to 6 months but beyond that you will need a visa to work.

letmegooglethatforyou.com

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&q=??

All prices….Select and airline andthey will tell youthe prices according tothe dates, what class you will be flying, non- stop or direct flight.
Google some airlines for the info you need.

If you are unable to look up air fares on the internet then you will be unable to plan a transnational move.

Where in Canada?

you can look at prices online for most airlines.

Canada has more than 1 airport.

WTF is a plan ticket?

ic system, is this true?

e.g. a person is 60 kgs, a table is 30 inches long.

Not exactly. It all has to do with when you were born. I was probably one of the last generations that still used the imperial measurements for much of my life.

I know my weight and height in imperial but not metric.
I buy my gas and measure my car’s speed in metric, not imperial.
I measure snowfall in imperial, but know what to expect when the forecast calls for snow in metric.
I buy my construction materials in standard imperial measurements (2" X 4" X 8′ studs for example)

Now here is where it gets really weird: I prefer to measure temperature in imperial when the temperature is above freezing (Summer being 90F) but switch to metric when it drops below freezing (for example, -10C winter day). I just seem to understand the heat better in imperial and the cold better in metric.

Legally, everything is metric. But in practise, it’s kind of the other way around. Most people only know their height in feet/inches and their weight in pounds, whereas drink sizes are in litres, distances are in kilometres, etc.
Another exception though is that many builders/contractors speak in terms of feet/inches. This could be partly because older generations have taught their apprentices this way, or the fact that many of our products are shipped from the USA, and are therefore in standard imperial measurements.
Also note that Canada uses centigrade when referring to temperatures.

It’s also generational. My parents still use imperial for almost everything, whereas I switch back and forth between the two, and I’m sure a lot of kids today don’t know anything other than metric.
I’m kind of weird…I can understand metric and I can understand imperial, but I find it very difficult to convert between the 2, same with temperatures (Fahrenheit/Celsius). For example, I know what 100 F feels like, but I have no idea what it is in C, and vice versa I know what 20 C feels like, but no idea what it is in F.

No, that’s not so. Officially, everything is in metric. Unofficially, some of us older folks use Imperial sometimes merely because it’s familiar to us, and as a result you can see the price of vegetables, for instance, sometimes appearing in metric and Imperial measures. If I asked for a pound of hamburger in a store, they would know what I meant. And I think most people would still describe their height in feet and inches. So we have a bit of a mish-mash when it comes to using one measuring system or the other, in spite of what the government thinks we should use..

No

Officially everything is metric. But in fact pieces of the imperial system hang on. You still may find groceries price /gram and /pound in the same store. I totally think Celcius when it comes to temperature but I couldn’t tell you my height and weight in m and kg.

Science in the schools is totally metric (thank god!!) but I don’t know what various industries do.

A big problem is that when our biggest customer (the US) persists in avoiding the metric system we have to make compromises to keep those exports moving.

Yeah, Karen has it about right.
Most everything is officially metric so food packets have the weight in grams, and the scales are all in grams. But the jar of jam is 454g (i.e. 1 lb), and the price tags have the price/pound in big letters and per kg in small. Gasoline is sold per litre; no-one talks about gallons anymore.
Wood products are still "nominal inch" e.g. 2×4 studs are 2"x4" (except they are planed down so are really 1.5" x 3.5"). Plywood and wallboard sheets are 4ft x 8ft so most rooms are 8ft tall.

No, metric is official for almost everything.The exceptions might be old laws, e.g., mining claim stackes must be 4′x5"x4" – old measurements, as that law has not been updated.People also use Imperial casually, but Canada a "officially" metric for all measurements.

In addition to what has been said, most people I know do not even use kilometers or miles for distance. They use time.

For instance, if you ask someone in Ottawa how far is Toronto, the answer you’ll get should be "5 hours".

Canada is a bit … inconsistent when it comes to this. Some use metric, some use the old system. Distance is measured in kilometres pretty much across the country but the rest is a real hodgepodge.

Karen has it right.
Officially we are metric. But some people still use imperial because Canada changed their "official system." We used to use the imperial system.

We use the metric system for everything except for a persons height and weight.

Other way around. a 190 pound man drives his car at 110km/h.

I may move to Brandon next year. How’s that place like: weather etc.

Wow, I have heard a lot about Canada but not Brandon/Manitoba area.I know you can google that particular territory and find out about who to write to within the government to get information on the area or go to your local public library and see what books they have on the matter.

It’ll be cold just like the rest of Canada.

Or can I leave a message on the door giving them instructions on where to put the package?

The person who ships a parcel has the option of requiring a signature. If that’s the case, and no one is in the house to sign for the package, then they’ll leave a delivery notice asking you to come pick it up for their warehouse or schedule another delivery attempt.

Purolator has left packages on my doorstep without a signature.

I’m visiting my cousin in Ohio, and i have a Wonderland season pass, i want to go to King’s Island with im during my visit, will my Wonderland pass work? Both amusement parks are part of the same chain, Cedar Fair entertainment company. i highly doubt that it will work, but i just want to confirm it.

It depends on what kind of pass you got.
The Platinum Pass is good for all 14 Cedar Fair-owned amusement parks including King’s Island.