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Who needs CAD and have Naira? Dm me ASAP

amdman:
Please pay your fares when you ride in public transit. It is not acceptable behavior to dodge fares, and a lot of people do this. TTC has a worse record with fare dodgers as the drivers are not as strict with fares compared to others (the TTC lost over $64m to fare evasion and faulty equipment in 2018) so they are implementing more measures to tackle the issue. That $3 you are dodging can become $200 or more in fines when you are caught, and it can go into your record as a conviction for a dishonesty related office

Good insight and information so far shared.

While some TTC bus drivers will overlook your incomplete payments at times, from experience, most immigrant drivers will always do this but some 'white' drivers for some reasons will pay close attention to the amount you are dropping at the sight of seeing you are a colored person. To avoid embarrassment and possible fine as earlier stated, do respect yourself and pay your money in full or if for any reason your coins are incomplete, politely confide in the driver, some will permit you to put in what you have while some drivers will refuse you entry altogether.

Also, some new buses have coin counter and sums up all the coins you deposit at the payment point, till they sum up to the required amount, you won't be allowed passage.

Furthermore, if for any reason your house or commute is closer to a subway, buses from here are usually free if you are transferring via there and may not require ticket to board, do well to request a transfer for onward itinerary as applicable. Also if you stumbled close to a subway as a result of your location, some designated routes are there that makes you go through a point of payment to access the bus terminals, don't try to play smart and never try sneaking past 'No entry' zones.

On the Richmond hill bus transit, some routine checks are made often on that route to catch defaulters that board without tickets, if you are caught as the prior poster said, you will be charged a fine and will have such integrity issues go into your record..

Summary: Our people say, no go use small shit spoil big yansh oooo

cheromel:

This is true. Please how do you reduce your years of experience or take out an an education such as a Masters degree from your resume without creating a gap in your resume? I've been worried about how to do this. Also, won't the recruiter check out your linkedin profile? Please help!!

Not always the case, if you have a Masters degree, there won't be discrimination against you in anyway. Labour laws constraint all employers to give equal opportunity and never to discriminate when they are hiring. Although some cards are secretly played under the table such as things like accents, background et al (as trivial as it may be, it exists)

A known individual got a graduate internship position with a renowned government parastatal that required only a baseline recent BSc. in the job requirements with a recent Masters degree. Many know persons have gotten entry level roles that required base line Bachelors degree with a Masters degree. While all employers aren't oblivious of the fact that employees will keep moving, the onus lies on them to give employees the reason to stay. A Masters degree holder will move at the offer of a better whatever, a college diploma graduate will do likewise.

To have idea about your long term commitments, they will usually ask the generic question such as "Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years". At the mention of this, the arrow has been handed over to you as a candidate to nail yourself where you deem fit.

It is never a minus to have additional qualifications, more so if you are a new immigrant with no canadian experience whatsoever, where the relativity of your experiences may be in question, a higher degree such as a Masters may further help your candidacy during hiring.

Conclusion: If you have a Masters, do kindly include it by all means, a Phd will be a no no..

guitarlife2:




Point 2 : Most jobs in Canada do not require an MSC so please loose the MSC and put ur BSC



to be continued............

Great piece there, but I will disagree slightly with the quoted.

If by any means you can pursue a Masters degree on arrival, please kindly do. There are range of reputable companies that recruits and demands for the most recent transcripts that you have to influencing considerations for entry level jobs and junior role jobs. Did I also miss to tell you that you also have the opportunity of pursuing a co-op Maters that can grant you the needed leg in the door? You also can be hired or make necessary industrial contacts via your research(if research masters) or through career fairs targeted at students and colleges. Finally, there is this unofficial sentiments for Canadian graduates.

A person with a MSc will automatically be better placed in comparison with a BSc holder when every other boxes are equally ticked.

I do agree that most jobs gives a baseline qualification for BSc. but if you were an an employer, will you not rather employ a MSc. holder for same cost and while considering the added value in the long run?

Indeed many factors plays out, Having an added degree is a coloured feather.

I’m so done with all of these back and forth, if you’ve never experienced Education in the ‘Western’ clime, you will think the system is messianic. For the books, I can’t remember using any of the things even taught in the same ‘Western Education’ in the work place.. It only helps the resume to be admissible!

Get the skills from even YouTube from wherever on the globe, you are good for many roles that doesn’t necessarily require academic qualification benchmarks!

Thank God you all murdering and speaking ill of Nigeria weren’t born Canadians, Y’all would have been r*cist!

BusinessHub1:
This forum has “education” section please, the argument can continue there. Here the topic of discussion is clearly about the living condition of those that successfully migrated to Canada please,thanks guys.

It’s part of the life here as Education is part of the society also.. Our children will also go to school also, so let people learn!

abnot:

Not everyone will understand you till they experience something different . I believe Nigerian educational system is terrible and is a likely cause of this mindset of stress being looked upon as normal. Globally policy makers continue to make life more and more conducive for its inhabitants but the reverse is the case in Nigeria with many believing you have to go through a lot of physical and mental stress To become successful. Have a taste of university education in the west and you’ll never think of making comparison with what is obtainable in Nigeria .

Aunty Western Education, some of us have had the grace to study on both divides.. Its easier in the so call ‘West’ with max of 4 courses per semester!

maziude:
Una can argue sha...

Time na money for this country oh

Too many shifts dey kill oo.. It’s weekend after all!

AZeD1:


EE has nothing to do with quality of education.

If our education was good, why are you migrating to Canada?

I love Nigeria, I miss those days I stay under some cool breezy dusk with those local pots of full catfish and mortuary standard drinks doing it in the African way.. Nigeria gave me all I require for survival, what I needed at the times and for the fact that I am a global citizen, I had to embark on adventure, it could be the Kenyan Safaris soonest! This is me just globetrotting!


Thank God y’all weren’t born Canadians, y’all would have have been very mean supremacists!

Ugosample:


I repeat
the educational system is USELESS and lack merit

All what you have up there are what we call in statistics "outliers"

What is the quality of the content dished out by the joke we call schools in NIGERIA?

What of the research work?

And mind you, the educational system has been decaying for decades upon decades which means that the educational state now is worse than it was 10 years back, which in turn was worse than it was 20 years back

So calling a Soyinka or whatever invalidates your point

the few who are good from Nigeria in the real sense of it are good because of extreme personal effort, not because of what the educational system has to offer

when one id good and determined, he strives to be better
That has nothing to do with the use less curriculum.

so don't mix it up, I know what I'm saying

You can kindly return all the certificates the Nigerian system gave you and see how you can apply for express Entry Na.. Oga statistics.. Speak for yourself..

If the so called Western Education is the best, I can see how the lacuna for professionals have been created by the seemingly best education that they are now soliciting international professionals to fill the spaces!

Ugosample:


education in NIGERIA is USELESS

There is no pride whatsoever in suffering

I regret every day I spent in a Nigerian school, from my pre school to my masters degree.

And my children will not SPEND A DAY in that use less system, from a use less country


But we see things differently tho
So.....

I totally disagree with you, we have and continually will have Nigerian graduates doing exploits at all levels, quick mention would have been Wole Soyinka but you will wanna say it back then.

Do you know that countries are continually seeking means of carting away professionals from Nigeria? The most successful immigrants in the US are Nigerians? The most number of doctors in Alberta are Nigerians? UK is continually wooing Nigerian Doctors away?

A prophet is indeed not honoured in his own city!

mrhumandelis:
LOL hard water is not unhealthy though..if anything, it's may be more healthy. It just tastes funny at first (you get used to it after a while) and sucks for bathing (may not suck for everyone as the soap leaves your body faster)

Hard water may not be totally unhealthy, researches have it that it complicates or exasperates some health conditions such as Diabetes, Cancer, Cardio vascular diseases and some more. Not the best also for skin and hair. My ‘canadian’ landlord by himself advised me against drinking it and suggested I rather buy a filter to ameliorate the condition or I settle for bottled water

SIRTee15:


Its certain u are oblivious of the irreparable damage our abstract learning method has done to the nigerian graduate and the society at large....
For u to be comparing rote learning with conceptual learning...
Tanitoluwa adewunmi will definitely disagree with u, even though he's had a taste of both divide.....
If u don't know him, pls Google.....
And pls, an average nigerian isn't smart.....he's just dubious, cunning, detest paying attention to detail, and always find ways to circumvent process.....
If an average nigerian is actually smart, that country wouldn't be in that deplorable condition....
And possibly, this thread may not have existed at all....

It is very pathetic that you as a Nigerian can come up with such an assertion, No matter what Nigeria night have offered you, you should at least have some remnant of patriotism in you. No country of the world is ideal, don’t be basking so much in your recent or intending immigration euphoria that you feel it’s a license to condemn on the terms of ‘AVERAGE’ the Nigeria that served as your cradle of growth..

Like the saying goes, different strokes for different folks. I graduated from a Federal University with a total school fees that is lesser than an average Year 1 school fees in Ontario.

You see, Nigeria didn’t make me owe loans for going to school as many of the kids here ends up doing. Nigeria also gave me a platform as a foundation to come further my Education on and indeed nothing was incomprehensible at Grad level..

Whatever you may call it, giving you that opportunity of obtaining an academic certificate(s) to be able to do your EE is an addition in itself..

Any river that forgets it’s origin will definitely dry up!

Nigeria’s Education may not be the best, but for the much the most of us paid and the overall foundation and experience derived from the four walls of learning was a good value for what was paid!

Why are most countries carting away on Nigerian Trained Doctors/Professionals? Do you think they don’t know their values? Why do you think Nigerian Doctors constitutes the most percentages in Alberta?

Do you know how much is it to go to Med school in the Western society?

Boss13:
Who are the people comparing Heaven with hell. The things you pray for in Nigeria has been answered in Canada

- 24 hours constant power supply
- Clean treated water
- Working transport system
- Good Security
- Good infrastructures
- Ability to travel to over 60 countries without embassy issues
- Good health care system. I have visited the hospital thrice and I did not drop a cent for services that would have costed me millions of naira.
- Quality goods and services from reliable brands and not fake ones
- Multiple recreation and leisure centers to visit
- Reliable community centers to assist you with your needs
- Quality Education and accessibility to quality teaching
- Fast reliable internet
- Diverse culture to grow your network

These are a few things people pray for in Nigeria. However, when you get to Canada, these prayer requests are already answered. Is Canada not heaven on earth?

I beg to differ on the bolded..

- Some Areas have hard water and you can't even risk drinking it if you like your life. A way around it for people will be through some filter
- You sure have not been to Dr. Flea's market, Chinko full there for cheap prices
- I agree with this but why will I pay $10 to play soccer for 2hrs?
- This is contestable, While I am convinced I did not get as much as I would have loved in Naija. Education and Smartness wise, our foundation is more solid than this system provides for kids. Don't even argue with me, I can relate individually from the perspective of a father that migrated with his family comparing his children's pre and post migration academic standings, the account of a year 1 student that newly just migrated and of course, myself, as a product of both sides of the divides. The only difference is that the society offers technology and resources that can aid research which is left to freewill. In Nigeria, we were 'konked' to learn, is this method the best? It is definitely contestable but I am glad I was 'konked' and it has aided me to be where I am today.

This is me trying not to make Canada seem like heaven.. No space in the world is ideal!

youngRx:


waow!...this ur analysis is a real lifesaver.

respect man...my two hands are in the air for you.



on another note, maybe it's the naive me speaking, but about $1600 a month on expenses ain't that bad fa...considering all the complaints about paying bills and living expenses.

thank you once again

Those your raising of two hands in the air should end in the plane before you touch down Canada ooo. Otherwise, they will just call 911 for you and you may end up going for test to be sure you are fit!

Sipping my zobo and waina that the Aunty that shipped the machine for making it is yet to share to the forumites

From the previous contributors about landing your preferred job in Canada as contributed by Salford1, einsteino et al

LET US GET TO A SUMMARY

There is no one rule fits all for immigrants, while some will have to use the ladder to the top, others may just be lucky to get an elevator/lift. As our faces are different so are our destinies different. While it may be immediate for some, it make take take sometime for others to land their preferred jobs.

Some may have their helper already positioned for them on arrival, others may need to attend couple meetings, go to some random places or forcefully use prayers to evoke the placement of their helpers

Never commit to mind that the ladder must be through the survival jobs, it may never be for you reading this and if at all it is, the duration to dwell on the jobs differs from one person to another.

My opinion: There are always tonnes of job notifications for vacancy across Canada, kindly do continually throw in those applications even if the work experience required in the description is not met, just do throw in your application. Remember, you miss 100 percent of shots never taken.

Do a survival job that wouldn't hamper your health in any way as there are god days ahead. you don't want to have a broken back before your time of breakthrough comes. Like I said, there are degrees of physical demanding survival jobs out there and they are in their surplus, brethren, choose wisely and more importantly the less stressful one since you know you still need those body parts and energy for the destination job that you are gunning for.

A friend once recapped his experience with an agency that hooked him up with one white guy that was happy he got a 'black' dude for the work day. They headed for some 45mins drive to the work location outside of Toronto. With several promises of picking up some more persons which came out to futility, on getting to the work site, just the both of them, the guy in question told my friend that their task for the day was to demolish a dilapidated building.
My friend said he looked at the guy and asked him politely that how many of them were to accomplish the said task, on his response that it was just the both of them, my friend calmly requested the guy to drive him back to where he picked him that he was no longer interested to work. Although the white guy was astonished and disappointed at the resolution of a seemingly 'black' dude that he had assumed should have over-pouring energy, what he wasn't sure was what the 'black' dude was saving his energy for.

He that runs from a fight, lives to fight another day. Choose your wars diligently, not all jobs are to be managed.

cychristaa:
Thanks alot. One last question please. If I open a USD chequing account and send USD, won't they still have to convert to CAD each time I want to use it?

You really don't need a special account to wire your money into your Canadian account. The only thing is that you will have to land to be able to finalize some formalities before you can access it. As earlier contributed that CAD is a third currency or so, all of those may never really count, do your transfer in USD as it is the easiest to do international transfers in.

All you need do is correspond with your bank and request all the information you need to doing a wire transfer into the account that you opened. No one can advise you best on this platform other than the bank you opened the account with as only the bank knows the kind of 'temporary' account they have opened for you and the characteristics of such account including receiving international wires.

joo2018:

Canadian Slang Vs Nigerian Slang | Couple Challenge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyufCT164bw&index=197&list=WL&t=0s

Am I the only one that noticed that the babe was just being a second fiddle or kind of intimidated? Did she just arrive Canada yesterday not to know what 'double double' is? and she guessed poutine in Timmies for God's sake, who does that?

My people, while you go through the system, allow the system go through you also. Take out time, go to safe places even when it is for no reason. Try some restaurants and fast foods here and there and visit some places to immerse yourself in the culture out here. Attend festivals, most importantly as summer is fast approaching, explore the beaches relax and do you as much as possible. Let life and activities give you the needed experience you should have. You sure cannot do all the shifts and overtime, ara ni o ma fabo si..

The good thing is that Canada is a melting pot for different races and nationalities, you don't necessarily have to travel to India to learn more about them in Canada and that also holds for some other nationalities.

Travelling they say is part of Education, relocation in itself is Naturalization.

#TuesdayThoughts

Lets take for example, someone's brake fails while driving on a snowing day, unfortunately, while trying to stop behind the cops car at the red light, the individual rams into it. what becomes the faith of the individual as regards his drivers' license and repairs/insurance?

#Playing the Devils' advocate

[quote author=KINGTELLER post=75981178][/quote]

All you need do is to go take multiple height measurements from different places, you know there are bound to be parallax and other measurements errors.

After taking like 15 measurements, you can statistically sample those data and get the mean, median, mode, mean deviation and standard deviation. Depending on the measure of dispersion you like the most, you can select preferably the mean, mode or standard deviation to fill..

On a side note, one is 5ft 12inches the other is 5ft 10inches, just fill 5ft 11 inches. That is you using sense and being wise. Tolerances are allowed in measurements.

What am I even saying sef, sha find the gist in there.

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Guitarlife:
Friends please I have landed in Calgary now, I came in through Toronto and the only thing I have done is the SIN.

What other things do I need to get sorted that I have not included in this list please help.

Bank Account
Health Card
Plan to take the driving test
Go to an employement Centre ? probably ??

By the way I flew a westjet flight from Toronto to Calgary and you know what, there were only 2 black guys with more than 100 caucasians on the flight, do you know how it feels being a minority in a place ? Exactly, all eyes were on me I could feel some were even surprised I could speak English lol not really tho, but it felt really awkward.

Will I now marry a white girl ? Lawwd knows ......

Were you requested to pay extra for baggage on WestJet?

K

salford1:

Hello Chief do kindly reply your PM Sir

Zutlin:


I can't explain how I feel reading your mindset towards marriage. Men like you scare me and one of my motivations to immigrate is to drastically reduce the chances of me and my unborn daughters coming across a man with your mindset. Sadly, your kind abounds in Nigeria.

You see, I understand you perfectly. My husband reasons just like you and he's always quick to bring religion and submission into the picture. I am a quiet and agreeable person and in hindsight, it's part of the reason he thought I would make a good wife. When I began pushing back by saying 'NO! This and that is inhumane and not acceptable', he labels me a nag, says I am unforgiving and always threatens divorce, all in a bid to shut me up. That threat really got me into 'submission'.

Maternal is right about the divorce rate in Nigeria being lower due to financial constraint. I tell you if Nigerian women had the needed support, many would have walked out. If I wasn't lucky to have a family that can financially, morally and emotionally support me, 'submission' would have been my lot.

Someday soon I plan to walk away. I do wish to get married again but the thought of being with a Nigerian man frightens me. I'm so drained I don't think I can go that route again.

**I'm sorry to share this much but I really wish men like you would understand better.**

I will appreciate you don't use that 'submission' as a bait and ride on his goodwill to immigrate after which you execute the bolded because you have will have arrived a new space.. Get done with whatever your plans may be in wherever you are, stand up as a WOMAN that you are and paddle the immigration ship from start to finish by yourself so you can get married to anyone of choice on arrival in your new space... That exactly is what is worth doing and honorable to do in the position to which you stand now.. It will be inhumane to have the man invest in all that pertains to immigration with a bottled up plan of wielding the axe when the food don done oo..

Canadachi:
Haaaa,I am so happy I can finally comment ...So I been a silent reader for about a year and I decided to register because of this marriage arguement.Most men on here are not ready to get married oh...which one is submit and head in marriage?smh

Lol... If the most men are not ready to get married.. Most women will also be left waiting for the men to be ready na... Ain't you seeing a chain reaction or a ripple effect there?

Las las... If those women can not wait for the men to get ready, that will be babymama duty calling ooo

claseek:
Love is what matters.

If there's really true love between a couple, you wont have a problem sharing chores/responsibility with your wife or husband, bathing the kids sometimes, cooking meals, contributing financially to the upkeep of the family (as a wife) without been asked.. etc ..
I mean these things should come easily to you..
Marriage is a partnership between two people. Not a relstionship between master and a slave

That been said, i still agree that the man is the head of the family.

Buhahahaha... She for no contribute ooo... In the era of 50/50, The wife must report all her salary to the last cent ooo.. You see how y'all wing situations to suit you? E reach finances now, It is to contribute and not to report the entirety... Y'all should kwantinue oo....

My bad, you are one of the good ones... I didn't see the bolded before reacting.. lol
You have justified fully the kind of home training that you got.. May your sons get your kind of person as a wife!

maternal:


A name is a name. Feminists? Far from it. I believe in equality in all aspects. If a woman puts her hands on me I'd beat her finish. That's how equal I am. Nobody gets a pass. Actually only momsy, daughter, and sister gets a pass. Just the hypocracy is funny. This was the same way slavery was justified. You know when the white used some nonsense bible verse, and claimed They re the masters and Africans should be submissive ? Can you imagine if a white man comes up to these men and say the nonsense They re saying about their woman ? It'd unacceptable and they'd be called racist.

How do hypocrites justify this ? Honestly.

double standard Uncle at the bolded.. If she puts her hand on you, just put your hand back, where is the 'I'd beat her finish' coming from? where then is the equality that you claim?

Have you ever wondered that when a woman slaps a man and the man sucks it up and walk away, he is regarded by all onlookers including women alike as brave? but when the reverse happens, the man is regarded as a coward?

Does such in itself tells you that men and women ain't the same?

Homguy:
It's important not to shift goal posts. You and pejuhazel argued for equality without any head figure. I disagreed.

...I wonder what would make a woman more capable of heading her home, except she's married to a loser, or some irresponsible man. In that case this argument wouldn't have happened.

More importantly please either agree or disagree that any institutions must have a head.

Spot on fam... the goal post must remain where we have to score hattrick oo... She's a barrister and I'm not surprised she is trying to exhibit and activate 'nolo contendere'... You caught her in the act of 'abracadabra'

maternal:


I'm a man. I wouldn't do a roster myself. Only for the children though.

You must do roster oo.. You were the one that fanned all these fire.. You now want to jaapa? Biko bia, You must do a roster and it must be near the door, no one forgets his/her duties ooo... How then do you justify a 50/50 share with no roster? There is no ojoro in this marriage business ooo