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Hello everyone
Kindly help with this dilemma.
I did my soft landing in Calgary, Alberta. I got my PR card, Alberta ID, health card etc. It's time to go back to Canada and my friend in Ottawa is asking me to come to her side.
The problem is the cost of accommodation for a decent one bedroom apartment for my baby and I. She's saying I can see for 1500 bills inclusive which I'm finding hard to see on Facebook market.
Should I find my way back to Calgary or look into other affordable city? Can I get something decent in Calgary for around 1200? I have no family and my husband isn't joining me anytime soon.
I want to conclude on time so I can book my flight. Thank you all.

UnconventionalT:
Hello everyone
Kindly help with this dilemma.
I did my soft landing in Calgary, Alberta. I got my PR card, Alberta ID, health card etc. It's time to go back to Canada and my friend in Ottawa is asking me to come to her side.
The problem is the cost of accommodation for a decent one bedroom apartment for my baby and I. She's saying I can see for 1500 bills inclusive which I'm finding hard to see on Facebook market.
Should I find my way back to Calgary or look into other affordable city? Can I get something decent in Calgary for around 1200? I have no family and my husband isn't joining me anytime soon.
I want to conclude on time so I can book my flight. Thank you all.

1200 will get you a shared apartment in calgary. 1400-1500.

Another one. The liberal government can’t seem to catch any break 😩
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-international-students-school-attendance-data/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

UnconventionalT:
Hello everyone
Kindly help with this dilemma.
I did my soft landing in Calgary, Alberta. I got my PR card, Alberta ID, health card etc. It's time to go back to Canada and my friend in Ottawa is asking me to come to her side.
The problem is the cost of accommodation for a decent one bedroom apartment for my baby and I. She's saying I can see for 1500 bills inclusive which I'm finding hard to see on Facebook market.
Should I find my way back to Calgary or look into other affordable city? Can I get something decent in Calgary for around 1200? I have no family and my husband isn't joining me anytime soon.
I want to conclude on time so I can book my flight. Thank you all.

only go where you have job prospects o. Your friend is looking like she wants to use you for company/ cure boredom .

ednut1:
only go where you have job prospects o. Your friend is looking like she wants to use you for company/ cure boredom .

lol. She misses me

AirBay:
1200 will get you a shared apartment in calgary. 1400-1500.

Chai
1200 for shared apartment it's well

I second this. Go to where you have job prospects.

ednut1:
only go where you have job prospects o. Your friend is looking like she wants to use you for company/ cure boredom .

@LordAdam16, RodgersAkpafu, Jedisco and any one willing to contribute.

So we have established that there is a deficit of talent in our community! What do we do to remedy this? It is not enough for us to describe a malaise, we can also try to proffer solution(s). You never know who will be reading this - now or in the future. We diagnose, prognosticate and also offer therapy - clear ones and in simple language. We have all heard the toll of the death knell of affirmative action, which as nebulous as it seem to some, is still something and has offered a pathway to a better life for many. And so it may behoove us to gestate or come up with a more bespoke alternative.

RodgersAkpafu spoke about a cultural shift. Can we get into the nitty gritty of this?

LordAdam16, I will take a couple of hours one of these days to look through that reddit thread. That looks loaded to the brim. Please provide more insight(s)?

Jedisco, please shoot!
Thank you.

I'd like to undertake realtor licensing in Edmonton. Anyone with tips or direction please.

Hi guys, please help my life.
I will be landing in March as PR, I won’t have my SIN until then and I want to apply to some BS Nursing programs for fall intake. I was able to apply to one university on OUAC as international student before the Jan 15 deadline because nursing is competitive (I couldn’t apply as PR because SIN is mandatory before payment on OUAC). However, I’m not very sure of my chances of getting in, so I would like to apply to some colleges on OCAS as a PR (SIN was wasn’t required before payment) and February 1 is the deadline for most complétive programs.

On OCAS, I was to select 5 schools on the portal for citizens/PR as against 1 on international portal where most nursing courses aren’t available. I want to make the application fee payment now but I’m not sure if SIN will be required at any point after making payment, I don’t want to waste my money.
Please can anyone who have an experience with applying on OCAS as PR confirm if I will be asked for SIN after payment or when sending in my transcript 🙏 thank you

Apologies for the long epistle

tensazangetsu20:
Also Indian being good coders is completely wash. Maybe the top one percent are but majority are completely horrible.

I had an Indian colleague who was hired as a Microsoft Azure Subject Matter Expert (SME). On a few occasions, I reached out to him for assistance with some issues I was facing. Unfortunately, he either wouldn’t respond or seemed unaware of what I was asking. I ended up doing my own research and often discovered that the solutions were quite simple. There are highly skilled engineers among them who do very well at their roles, but there are also many who lack the necessary knowledge or expertise for the positions they were hired for.

tensazangetsu20:
The dishonesty is crazy. During leetcode contests all the cheaters are always Indians. How are you even cheating for such stuff? Everything is just so cut throat and competitive with them.

You've not seen the ones that lip sync during interviews?

During interviews, they would arrange for someone knowledgeable about the role to be in the same room as them (the candidate being interviewed). When the interviewer asks questions, the knowledgeable person provides/says the answers, while the candidate on camera would be chewing mouth like he's saying something. If the interviewer picks up on something suspicious, they blame it on "network issues" to cover up the situation.

LordAdam16:
An investment bank doing bend-down-select is different from Goldman Sachs spending $7B and employing tens of thousands directly and through its GCCs in India.
India's population is 1.4B. Asia's is 5B. All of Africa is 1.5B.

It's not even close.
You're trying to compare a local supplier of a bodega to a national supplier of Walmart.
We're operating at different wavelengths.

US engineering graduates: 70,000 per year. India: 350,000. China: 600,000.
That's why China can decide to create three new Starlink competitors concurrently and it's a regular Tuesday.
You become an adjunct professor, become a VP, rise to Principal SWE, start a practice, and now you feel your pond is the Pacific.

Cognizant has 336,300 employees.
Founded in India. Headquartered in New Jersey....

-Lord

Thanks for bringing facts to this. Though I dont agree with some of your opinions, but its folly to argue facts with emotional tantrums.

When you look at the number of multinationals setting up in India, you begin to wonder. Shortsighted folks would say its 'cheap labour and poor quality...' but already, the pay for some of such jobs in India now rival pay in western nations. Compound their current economic growth of 7% pa and you'll see where they are headed if they stay the course. Of course, they still have huge pockets of poverty and need to address their wealth inequality but their GDP per capita tells its own story. I looked into Goldman Sachs and its surprising - quoting: '35% of their transaction banking team and 50% of its consumer banking team are based in India'. This is a bank that has over 1.6 trillion in assets. i.e over 4x the total GDP of NIgeria.


What I find surprising is that despite all this, someone who in a university setting rather than learn and seek to make himself and community better, goes on Twitter and is fed racist jibes by people many of whom do not have the education we possess. He then turns around to regurgitate that without asking those racists what they think of him. Look at China, until recently, they were a laughingstock in the West. You can guess what westerners would have said about them in 1990. Today, everybody has woken up and they're rivaling America for supremacy while retaining most of their wealth. That mistake is what may western nations and companies don't want to repeat in India

ferfer:
@LordAdam16, RodgersAkpafu, Jedisco and any one willing to contribute.

So we have established that there is a deficit of talent in our community! What do we do to remedy this? It is not enough for us to describe a malaise, we can also try to proffer solution(s). You never know who will be reading this - now or in the future. We diagnose, prognosticate and also offer therapy - clear ones and in simple language. We have all heard the toll of the death knell of affirmative action, which as nebulous as it seem to some, is still something and has offered a pathway to a better life for many. And so it may behoove us to gestate or come up with a more bespoke alternative.

RodgersAkpafu spoke about a cultural shift. Can we get into the nitty gritty of this?

LordAdam16, I will take a couple of hours one of these days to look through that reddit thread. That looks loaded to the brim. Please provide more insight(s)?

Jedisco, please shoot!
Thank you.

It's a common proverb that he who throws stones at everyone never gets to a destination. There is no need boring being prescriptive with a long list of things which are common knowledge. We could start by building a community focused on self-improvement. Just like the Nigerians in UK thread- open conversations are welcome and with time knowledge and community grows. There is even a mortgage thread with many getting on the ladder and sharing experiences.

Let's be clear, as a people or country we are not trying to reinvent the wheel.
What we seek has been done around the globe by multiple nations and groups. Over recent centuries, it was mainly the west that saw good development with their ensuing plunder so perhaps we may have been able to excuse ourselves if things remained that way. However, the last 80 years has shown that any country or people, if they do the right thing, can aim for the top and achieve that with time. Though I agree, there are still macroeconomic factors at play. We can x-ray what others have done and see what could work for us on an individual and community level taking care to avoid their pitfalls

Examples abound- Malysia, China, Singapore, UAE and now India, Mexico and Brazil are forging on despite challenges. What's impressive is that pace of development for some of the initial Asian tigers was much steeper than had been previously seen or thought possible. This is down to how knowledge compounds with time. Within a generation- some went from poor to developed. We can decide to get down, do what others who have succeeded have done and build wealth in our communities, or we could go around abusing others and chorusing racist tropes while we're left behind.

Regarding affirmative action, despite never being a recipient, I have argued in favour of it but this has to be properly balanced with merit. It's just how the world works and keeps balance. Look well enough- affirmative action is everywhere just called different names and without it, some groups would be unduly left out not for lack of intelligence but opportunity

Mizzhelen:
Hi guys, please help my life.
I will be landing in March as PR, I won’t have my SIN until then and I want to apply to some BS Nursing programs for fall intake. I was able to apply to one university on OUAC as international student before the Jan 15 deadline because nursing is competitive (I couldn’t apply as PR because SIN is mandatory before payment on OUAC). However, I’m not very sure of my chances of getting in, so I would like to apply to some colleges on OCAS as a PR (SIN was wasn’t required before payment) and February 1 is the deadline for most complétive programs.

On OCAS, I was to select 5 schools on the portal for citizens/PR as against 1 on international portal where most nursing courses aren’t available. I want to make the application fee payment now but I’m not sure if SIN will be required at any point after making payment, I don’t want to waste my money.
Please can anyone who have an experience with applying on OCAS as PR confirm if I will be asked for SIN after payment or when sending in my transcript 🙏 thank you

Apologies for the long epistle

Good morning,base on my little Knowledge,you can easily be addmit into License practical Nurse diploma in any College in Canada, because their requirements are not much.

ezzylee:
You've not seen the ones that lip sync during interviews?

During interviews, they would arrange for someone knowledgeable about the role to be in the same room as them (the candidate being interviewed). When the interviewer asks questions, the knowledgeable person provides/says the answers, while the candidate on camera would be chewing mouth like he's saying something. If the interviewer picks up on something suspicious, they blame it on "network issues" to cover up the situation.

We all know these things
But people who are Star Struck by "success" will be closing their eyes to see what is the reality on ground
Recently a 31 y/o was busted in Goldman Sachs
Guess where he came from?
You guessed right

Below shows a snippet of how they have an entire industry that support the mass exportation of students with forged credentials

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/immigration-agent-convicted-for-preparing-forged-docs-for-indians-to-study-in-canada-101717061059144.html


Below shows a prominent Indian who was flippantly and shamelessly boasting about being beneficiary of this forgery industrial complex

Lalit Modi, the fugitive founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), openly admits to..

Hiring a guy to get him a 1550/1600 in the SAT in 1983, faking all his school grades from class 2 to 12 to be 90%+ and eventually went to Duke for his undergrad.

This Indian executive… pic.twitter.com/jLFTdjJzpT

— VICTSIN (@VICTSIN01) January 14, 2025

Below is the measure being taken by the British government after we have complained and complained about this trend of ppl coming in and. not knowing anything

https://english.gujaratsamachar.com/news/international/agents-providing-fake-documents-for-admission-in-uk-universities-to-be-blacklisted

IRCC have asked Indians as well as other people to resubmit documents, but of all nationalities, they are the only one fretting and panicking
IRCC had to address it, as Below

https://thepienews.com/ircc-addresses-concerns-over-document-resubmission/

One can only bury their head in the sand like ostrich, call it "emotional tantrum" or "racist trope"
But it is what it is
And like I have always said, this is the decade where that facade of being the "model minority " will be biitchslapped from their face
@Gerrard59

ednut1:
Another one. The liberal government can’t seem to catch any break 😩
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-international-students-school-attendance-data/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

You wanna wager that over 50% of these "no show " students will be from the land of the "model minority high skilled" people?

Mizzhelen:
Hi guys, please help my life.
I will be landing in March as PR, I won’t have my SIN until then and I want to apply to some BS Nursing programs for fall intake. I was able to apply to one university on OUAC as international student before the Jan 15 deadline because nursing is competitive (I couldn’t apply as PR because SIN is mandatory before payment on OUAC). However, I’m not very sure of my chances of getting in, so I would like to apply to some colleges on OCAS as a PR (SIN was wasn’t required before payment) and February 1 is the deadline for most complétive programs.

On OCAS, I was to select 5 schools on the portal for citizens/PR as against 1 on international portal where most nursing courses aren’t available. I want to make the application fee payment now but I’m not sure if SIN will be required at any point after making payment, I don’t want to waste my money.
Please can anyone who have an experience with applying on OCAS as PR confirm if I will be asked for SIN after payment or when sending in my transcript 🙏 thank you

Apologies for the long epistle

@ednut1
your insights please

ferfer:
@LordAdam16, RodgersAkpafu, Jedisco and any one willing to contribute.

So we have established that there is a deficit of talent in our community! What do we do to remedy this? It is not enough for us to describe a malaise, we can also try to proffer solution(s). You never know who will be reading this - now or in the future. We diagnose, prognosticate and also offer therapy - clear ones and in simple language. We have all heard the toll of the death knell of affirmative action, which as nebulous as it seem to some, is still something and has offered a pathway to a better life for many. And so it may behoove us to gestate or come up with a more bespoke alternative.

RodgersAkpafu spoke about a cultural shift. Can we get into the nitty gritty of this?

LordAdam16, I will take a couple of hours one of these days to look through that reddit thread. That looks loaded to the brim. Please provide more insight(s)?

Jedisco, please shoot!
Thank you.

What I mean by having a cultural shift is that as a people, we need to value education across the different strata of the society and put it in the front burner. The "school na scam" narrative spreading across the country and the "money na water" mentality is very very very worrisome and will only make us retrogress further

The cultural shift also mean that we need to get rid of the mercantilitst thinking that your gain must come at another /your country man expense. This is the underlying mentality behind why we don't lend a helping hand to each other, snitch on each other and do all sorts of malevolent things to each other
Indians generally aren't mercantilist to each other. The one person that knows the deal can cover for three others who are empty heads, make four of them sha enter, then those three will put another two on, and before u know it.....

What I try to do as a person is to mentor these young black boys in my uni, that they can aspire to anything and support them in ways that i can. That mentorship makes a whole lot of difference and is seriously lacking in our community.
Encouraging our people on career paths to take, free knowledge and game, and all that, makes a lot of difference, but it needs to be done on an "industrial scale"

It's also important that we do not create the image of dishonest lying people who are forgers and nepotistic. We should strive to be as uptight as we can, and remain as blameless as we can be (like the Vietnamese ppl generally)

Lastly there is so much we can do without government support. The govts of pur competitors are spending a hell of a money on education both at home and sending people overseas
Vietnam is spending money like a drunken sailor to educate their people.
China own is even on another level

But since we know that's far fetched, we can only do what we can as individual's and as a people

RodgersAkpafu:
@ednut1
your insights please

i’m not a nursing student and have never dealt with OCAS. How i wan take know 😒

RodgersAkpafu:
@ednut1
your insights please

OCAS has their fees and try and see if there is any other restrictions. Try to register until you meet the payment page. Do you have grade 12 subjects or are your O'levels and stuff relatively fresh?

aestake:
OCAS has their fees and try and see if there is any other restrictions. Try to register until you meet the payment page. Do you have grade 12 subjects or are your O'levels and stuff relatively fresh?

#Mizzhelen
over to you

Ifetech4u:
Good morning,base on my little Knowledge,you can easily be addmit into License practical Nurse diploma in any College in Canada, because their requirements are not much.

Thank you, I will take a look at this too

aestake:
OCAS has their fees and try and see if there is any other restrictions. Try to register until you meet the payment page. Do you have grade 12 subjects or are your O'levels and stuff relatively fresh?

Yes I have made it to the payment page- there is an application fee of $150
My O’level is over 10 years ago, but I meet most of the selected schools English, maths, and Biology prerequisite except- chemistry where I had C6 . I didn’t see anything indicating that I need to be fresh out of high school to apply to any of the colleges I selected
I could be wrong about this- oh I also saw that there is need for a WES evaluation

cc: @rodgersakpafu

RodgersAkpafu:
that is why I get mad when I read in the NIUK (congregation of many fools btw) many instances of "care cos fraud" and other bad things we are doing to each other when we should be building together as a people
I know of a guy who is based in Bradford who collaborated with a Paki guy to start small real estate business, like prospecting and stuff,,,, The people there saw to it that he was "brought down Ask of "Maxx" for those who live in that side, you will the story and weep for him, because it wnded up in police station.
How are we going to do well, when as individual's we are just there but as a group we are nowhere

For reference, below is a snippet of a recurring decimal
https://x.com/don_pet/status/1880142493263499491

As in, a Nigerian guy was brought down by who, please? And why, please?

I prefer the Chinese anytime, any day. They are the next meritocratic folks after the white man. Generally anyway, na white and East Asian men dey run the world.

Gerrard59:
As in, a Nigerian guy was brought down by who, please? And why, please?

I prefer the Chinese anytime, any day. They are the next meritocratic folks after the white man. Generally anyway, na white and East Asian men dey run the world.

the Nigerian "grandpa's and grand mas" like we call them here (all these old timers that didn't do well with their many years in the UK) conspired against Maxx.
From spreading of lies and demarketing him.
To cut a very long story short, the matter got to the police. That is how messy the case was

RodgersAkpafu:
the Nigerian "grandpa's and grand mas" like we call them here (all these old timers that didn't do well with their many years in the UK) conspired against Maxx.
From spreading of lies and demarketing him.
To cut a very long story short, the matter got to the police. That is how messy the case was

And I was here thinking it was the Pakistanis that did so. Wow! That country seems to have congregated a large number of bad-belly fellows from Nigeria. Sha, in the English speaking world, no country defeats the US.

Mizzhelen:
Yes I have made it to the payment page- there is an application fee of $150
My O’level is over 10 years ago, but I meet most of the selected schools English, maths, and Biology prerequisite except- chemistry where I had C6 . I didn’t see anything indicating that I need to be fresh out of high school to apply to any of the colleges I selected
I could be wrong about this- oh I also saw that there is need for a WES evaluation

cc: @rodgersakpafu

Yeah, more than 10yrs may not be good enough (lacks currency) regardless of the subjects involved. Anyway, indicate you are somewhat a PR if possible. WES evaluation from your first degree may still help. Applying is one thing; getting admitted is another especially for a BScN program.

RodgersAkpafu:
You wanna wager that over 50% of these "no show " students will be from the land of the "model minority high skilled" people?

as seen on TikTok . The country of origin for the 50k non compliant students. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. Your country is number 3 . 😒

ednut1:
as seen on TikTok . The country of origin for the 50k non compliant students. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. Your country is number 3 . 😒

Can you see the gap....

Our supposed "model minority highly skilled pipu" have more ppl caught up in forgery than the next 4 countries put together
Now that IRCC has asked for more ppl to (re)submit their documents, be assured that that number with further balloon

As for Nigeria
We never claimed we were the "model minority nau"
we never claimed we were better than other ppl
So being caught up in fraud albeit on a smaller scale is not "headlines"

Mizzhelen:
Thank you, I will take a look at this too

Yeah, I know someone from Nigeria who got admitted (Practical Nursing) at Sheridan College with WES-evaluated Microbiology degree. She was almost done with PSW then, but she turned the offer down after being waitlisted for some time. Hoping to get PRed via PSW route....I don't know how that worked out.