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michael59

Celestial
Here's an article about this.

Independent pharmacist prescribing in Canada
Excerpt:
Pharmacists could independently prescribe in 7 of 10 provinces, including continuing existing prescriptions (7 provinces), adapting existing prescriptions (4 provinces) and initiating new prescriptions (3 provinces). However, there was significant heterogeneity between provinces in the rules governing each function.

Thanks. :)

I like this idea because there are very few doctors left that take new patients nowadays. So most people have to sit in a 'first come first serve" medicenter and wait to see a GP.

I remember having to sit and wait for 4 hours once. And to make matters even more frustrating, they no longer allow pharmacies to send a FAX to get permission to refill prescriptions. My GP retired and I really hate being touched by strangers. I think it has a lot to do with abduction experiences, along with other negative experiences I have had in the past.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I don't know about Canada but its illegal for a pharmacist to write out prescriptions and fill them in the US...If it were legal then anyone could go to a pharmacy and get pain meds or any other narcotics with ease bypassing the checks and balances that a doctor provides...

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A pharmacist who's liberal with his pills. Hmmm, could make for a fun weekend

Sounds like a reasonable accommodation for the public health care system. If she had something more complicated she could post a letter or leave a note at the town hall or whatever those nice folks have to do.
 

michael59

Celestial
A pharmacist who's liberal with his pills. Hmmm, could make for a fun weekend

Sounds like a reasonable accommodation for the public health care system. If she had something more complicated she could post a letter or leave a note at the town hall or whatever those nice folks have to do.

"town hall" b0055

You think we live in igloos, don't you? b0010
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Got 2 mins. ? Here take a tour. :D


Beautiful! I’ve been to Toronto a few times on business and enjoyed it. Didn’t have time for too much tourism but it was sort of a super clean mini-Manhattan. Been to Belleville and don’t remember too much about it except thinking if 401 is the Queen’s Highway that perhaps a few beheadings to restore highway maintenance discipline might be in order :). Long time ago
 

michael59

Celestial
I know most Canadians live in the southern part of the country. Have you visited the Northwest Territory, Yukon, or Nunavut? If so, what is it like up there?

I have lived in Pine Point & Hay River, NWT. I have visited Whitehorse and went to camp for 2 weeks in Yellowknife, NWT. I was very young, only 12 years old at the time. I don't think Pine Point exists anymore. lol

At the time, Yellowknife was considered/classified as a city. It seemed very tiny to me but to be fair, I had lived in Toronto, Ontario before moving to Pine Point.

They were like any other small town you would come across in Canada except that the majority population was indigenous.

Never been to the Yukon or Nunavut. :)
 

michael59

Celestial
Beautiful! I’ve been to Toronto a few times on business and enjoyed it. Didn’t have time for too much tourism but it was sort of a super clean mini-Manhattan. Been to Belleville and don’t remember too much about it except thinking if 401 is the Queen’s Highway that perhaps a few beheadings to restore highway maintenance discipline might be in order :). Long time ago

It is so funny to me that you would say that about Toronto because when I was 10 years old we moved from Toronto to Pine Point. Then at the age of 13 we went back to Toronto via a layover in Edmonton. I remember taking a taxi from the airport to the hotel for our overnight stay in Edmonton and thinking that it was so much cleaner than Toronto and definitely more beautiful. I also remember thinking to myself that when I grew up, I wanted to live in Edmonton and here I am. I have lived here for over 40 years now.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
It is so funny to me that you would say that about Toronto because when I was 10 years old we moved from Toronto to Pine Point. Then at the age of 13 we went back to Toronto via a layover in Edmonton. I remember taking a taxi from the airport to the hotel for our overnight stay in Edmonton and thinking that it was so much cleaner than Toronto and definitely more beautiful. I also remember thinking to myself that when I grew up, I wanted to live in Edmonton and here I am. I have lived here for over 40 years now.

Montreal is on my list, easily within driving range. Just never made it there.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Do you speak French?

Nope. An impediment, I understand. I thought anyone could understand English provided you speak it loud enough.

My first wife's family was French Canadian and family dinners involving a lot of French. She went to grad school up in Plattsburgh and I have made the hajj up there many times - a popular shopping destination for FCs. Code for 'watch what your doing those French bastards drive like lunatics' :) All the signage on the North Way I87 is in French up there.
 

michael59

Celestial
Nope. An impediment, I understand. I thought anyone could understand English provided you speak it loud enough.

My first wife's family was French Canadian and family dinners involving a lot of French. She went to grad school up in Plattsburgh and I have made the hajj up there many times - a popular shopping destination for FCs. Code for 'watch what your doing those French bastards drive like lunatics' :) All the signage on the North Way I87 is in French up there.

They're a lot friendlier to tourists if you at least try to speak French, so you might want to learn a phrase or two to get by. Like:
Where's the nearest gas station
Where's the nearest restaurant
How much does this cost
Can you recommend a good hotel/motel
and the always good to know...where's the toilet
:)
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
They're a lot friendlier to tourists if you at least try to speak French, so you might want to learn a phrase or two to get by. Like:
Where's the nearest gas station
Where's the nearest restaurant
How much does this cost
Can you recommend a good hotel/motel
and the always good to know...where's the toilet
:)

A pity many of the Spanish speakers around here can't be bothered with learning the first word of English. Don't need to, they are catered to. I'm obviously a racist bigot evil white man for suggesting such things.
 

michael59

Celestial
A pity many of the Spanish speakers around here can't be bothered with learning the first word of English. Don't need to, they are catered to. I'm obviously a racist bigot evil white man for suggesting such things.

In Canada, French is not considered a second language. Everything including street signs have both English and French. Even when you call a number that has an automated service, you have to wait until they offer the service in both English and French so you can choose which language you prefer to get service in.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
In Canada, French is not considered a second language. Everything including street signs have both English and French. Even when you call a number that has an automated service, you have to wait until they offer the service in both English and French so you can choose which language you prefer to get service in.

Thanks. Out of respect I'd make a point to have some understanding of what I have to do to function there before I went.

I was making a reference to having to deal with people who arrive several at a time in the back of a truck who then want me to explain how to do the job they have been hired for. Usually hired by the worst landlords and lowest common denominator handymen that exist. Usually involves passing notes and blank looks and then having to go track down someone who can speak the language. Not always possible and when you do find this person hope they can translate Electricspeke too. Very, very frustrating experience. I wonder how many injuries as a result of this foolishness go unreported. Somehow I don't see our French speaking cousins making that same accommodation on such a scale. Once had a Chinese man use some sort or translation app on his phone. No problem - he made an effort and it was much appreciated. He apparently realized that finding a Chinese speaker wasn't likely. Maybe in other areas of the country he would, but not likely here.

If I lived near the norther border I'd learn to speak French, near the southern I'd learn to speak Spanish. Hell, if I lived by the ocean I'd learn to squeak in Dolphin if I had to.
 

michael59

Celestial
Thanks. Out of respect I'd make a point to have some understanding of what I have to do to function there before I went.

I was making a reference to having to deal with people who arrive several at a time in the back of a truck who then want me to explain how to do the job they have been hired for. Usually hired by the worst landlords and lowest common denominator handymen that exist. Usually involves passing notes and blank looks and then having to go track down someone who can speak the language. Not always possible and when you do find this person hope they can translate Electricspeke too. Very, very frustrating experience. I wonder how many injuries as a result of this foolishness go unreported. Somehow I don't see our French speaking cousins making that same accommodation on such a scale. Once had a Chinese man use some sort or translation app on his phone. No problem - he made an effort and it was much appreciated. He apparently realized that finding a Chinese speaker wasn't likely. Maybe in other areas of the country he would, but not likely here.

If I lived near the norther border I'd learn to speak French, near the southern I'd learn to speak Spanish. Hell, if I lived by the ocean I'd learn to squeak in Dolphin if I had to.

The only reason I mentioned it is because you said you want to visit Montreal some day.

If I went somewhere on vacation and they were rude to me because I didn't speak the language, I'd tell them to stick it where the sun doesn't shine and go spend my tourist dollars somewhere else.

Hence the reason I have never been to Montreal or Quebec.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I've been wearing masks in the stores again lately but only because there's a couple of respiratory illnesses going around locally and I just don't want to accidentally catch a cold or other virus and be sick right now...

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michael59

Celestial
I've been wearing masks in the stores again lately but only because there's a couple of respiratory illnesses going around locally and I just don't want to accidentally catch a cold or other virus and be sick right now...

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Their still mandatory here. I had a cashier at Safeway get all authoritarian on me when my mask slipped off my nose while lifting items from the cart to the belt. :rolleyes:
 
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