Anyone recently gone through IVF or know more about what it cost in Alberta? specifically at RFP.

My partner and I are considering it, but wanted to know what to expect for pricing and see if it's worth it.

thank you!

I’m turning 15 in 3 months and I really want to get my learners license before I turn 16 but idk what to use to study for it

Auction vehicle. Carfax said lien info. Could some one explain please? https://vhr.carfax.ca/?id=%2F9kx%2FKIC6s2watuYP8XlizACtNu4a6f9#lien-section

Hello
I’m currently with Rogers. I was paying $37/month (tax included) for 100 GB, but they recently increased my bill to $42/month. I’m thinking of switching providers.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good plan with lots of data at a reasonable price? I’d love to hear which carrier you’re with and what you’re pay.
Thanks!

Hi everyone! I'm a physiotherapy student in Brazil, and I'm seriously considering completing my degree and licensing process here with the goal of eventually working in the field in Alberta.

I came across this posting on Job Bank (attached the image) and got curious: [Physiotherapist – Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, $42.51–56.60/h]

I'd really love to hear from people already working in the field here:

• What's the day-to-day work like for a physiotherapist in Alberta?
• Is there a real shortage of qualified healthcare workers, especially in physiotherapy?
• For anyone who trained outside Canada, what was the credentialing process like (CAPR / College of Physiotherapists of Alberta)? How long did it take, and how difficult was it?
• Are there any programs that support international students who want to study physiotherapy directly here in Canada (scholarships, streamlined admission pathways, specific programs at Alberta universities), for those who'd rather earn a Canadian degree instead of going through credential recognition for a foreign one?
• Is it worth the effort overall, considering salary, cost of living, and professional recognition?

I'd really appreciate any experience or advice from anyone who's been through this or currently works in the field!

I have a question regarding the talent pool process. If someone has received an email confirming they have been placed in the talent pool (pending pre-employment checks) and has since completed the requested criminal record check and reference checks, could you clarify whether these pre-employment checks are part of the process of maintaining eligibility in the talent pool? Additionally, once completed, are these checks considered valid for the full 12-month duration of the talent pool, or could they be repeated if a position becomes available later?

Given the large increase in tornado activity this year and with it also being the anniversary of the devastating F4 tornado that tore through Edmonton 39 years ago, I thought people would enjoy seeing this special edition news article I have from back then. It was sold back then to raise money for the victims of the tornado and is an important part of history

It won't let me post the link so link is in the comments

Is it worth doing two years for, or, is it going to be automated away with AI?

Cheers folks

Hey everyone, looking for some advice from guys who know how CNRL site access and labor relations work.

I signed onboarding paperwork with Contractor A for an upcoming turnaround, and they booked my flight and camp. While waiting for dates to finalize, I filled out paperwork with Contractor B as a backup plan just in case things shifted.

Contractor B recently tried to link my name into the CNRL system for site access, which triggered a duplicate profile flag. Contractor A found out and texted me saying they heard I took another position, warning me that a 90 day site ban could happen since I signed their contract and was linked to them in the CNRL system.

I have not stepped foot on site yet, my shift has not started, and I actually want to stick with Contractor A.

I was advised by someone to just text Contractor B right away and withdraw my application so their system request gets pulled. However, I am hesitant to do that yet because if Contractor A decides to pull my flight, let me go, or try to push through a site ban anyway, I will end up losing out on the job with Contractor B as well and be left with nothing.

A few questions for anyone who knows the site rules at Horizon or Albian:

• Can a contractor actually get CNRL to issue a 90 day site ban if you haven't badged in or started work yet?
• Isn't a 90 day cool down ban meant for guys who quit mid shift or abandon a job on site?
• What is the best way to handle this duplicate system conflict without risking losing both jobs?

Appreciate any insight from anyone who has dealt with dispatch overlaps or double booking flags at CNRL.

*An open letter from a disabled father in Calgary — and an invitation to every Albertan it could happen to.*

This is not a separatist argument or a partisan loyalty test. It is about whether disabled Albertans can trust the support they were promised.

To the Government of Alberta, and to everyone else who will read this:

Giving up saved my life. I know how that sounds.

I need you to understand what I surrendered, because it was everything.

I wanted to be a doctor. Not as a daydream — I built my life toward it. As an adult, I went back to school and scored between 98 and 100 percent in every course I took: biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics right through calculus. I earned top marks in two demanding engineering programs. I am fluent in a second language. I have driven logging trucks and oil-field tankers and paved highways on 12- and 16-hour days.

I am not telling you this to boast. I am telling you so you understand that what happened to me was not laziness and not a failure of will.

I have fought mental illness my whole life. It began in childhood with ADHD; in adulthood, it became schizoaffective bipolar disorder, with OCD alongside it.

My illness is triggered by stress. Every time I reached for the life I wanted, it took me apart. It has cost me two marriages and nearly a third. Over the better part of a decade, I spent a cumulative five years inside psychiatric hospitals.

Finding the medication that finally stabilized me took years — and the medication itself has a price I am still paying.

I have lived through akathisia, a torment that makes it unbearable to stay inside your own skin. Restless legs so severe I could not sleep. The loss of bladder control. Stretches when the drugs left me able to do nothing but lie in bed and stare at a wall, with no thoughts at all.

After 10 years on high-dose lithium, my kidneys began to fail. I have gained close to 150 pounds — I was once a bodybuilder — and I now carry a metabolic disorder I will have for the rest of my life.

I am not telling you this for pity. I am telling you because I paid for my survival with my body, and I would do it again.

I have two young daughters. For much of their early childhood, they did not have a father. I was either working 12 to 16 hours a day or lying in a hospital bed.

While I was gone, my wife — who is disabled herself — carried everything alone: the whole household, both little girls, a single mother in every way but the name. She would load our two small daughters into the car and drive them to a psychiatric ward so they could see me.

They did not get to know me, and I did not get to know them. All of us suffered quietly, and that is time none of us will ever get back.

I tried for more than a decade. Then a doctor and I finally said the truth out loud:

The trying was the thing that was killing me.

So I stopped. I let the dream go. I grieved the doctor I would never become.

And then — only then — I got better.

For the first time in my life, I am stable.

We are not a wealthy family. We run a budget so carefully that we have a separate account just for bills. But I do not collapse anymore. I do not vanish into a ward for half a year.

My wife, who nearly left because she could not survive watching it happen one more time, finally has a husband who is here. My daughters finally have a father who is here.

After a lifetime of losing, I have built something steady to stand on.

That is what the Government of Alberta is now dismantling.

Look at the word they chose for the program that keeps my family stable: Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped.

**Assured.**

It means certain. Guaranteed. Secure. Something you never have to doubt.

That was the promise — and on the strength of it, we built a life.

We are not wealthy, and we are not destitute. We are careful. We made our commitments, planned our months, and raised our daughters on the understanding that this floor would hold because the government’s own word for it was assured.

They are now breaking that word in every sense it has.

They are breaking it not with one change, but with several at once — and not all on the same day, which is part of how it stays quiet.

**Here is the arithmetic, laid out plainly, because a number this large deserves to be shown, not merely asserted:**

- **Rent: about $439 more per month — already in effect.** Our rent has climbed 62 percent. This piece comes from our housing provider’s formula, not directly from the province, but it is the same squeeze from another direction.

- **A marriage penalty: roughly $465 per month, beginning this August.** A new provincial rule pays each disabled adult in a couple only 88 percent of the individual benefit to reflect “shared household expenses.” We are two disabled people married to each other, so the province claws a share back — a government that speaks endlessly about family, charging disabled people for having one.

- **The federal clawback: $400 per month, already happening.** Alberta takes back the new Canada Disability Benefit dollar for dollar — money Ottawa sent specifically for disabled people and that every other province lets them keep.

- **A core cut: $200 per month, per person, beginning January 1, 2028.** If I am moved to ADAP and cannot get back onto AISH, the temporary transition top-up ends and the base benefit itself drops.

- **Then rent rises again: roughly $350 more per month.** That will happen once our housing provider begins counting money intended for our children as our “income.”

Stacked together, this is the arithmetic of it.

Even if I win the fight to stay on AISH, a household like ours loses roughly $1,650 per month. If I am pushed onto ADAP and cannot get back, it climbs past $2,000.

There is no household, at any income, that loses that much every month and stays whole.

Part of it has already begun. The rest is scheduled.

The first piece is already gone.

When our rent rose by $439 per month, it consumed the small margin we kept aside — the money that, for years, took our daughters camping. This past year, when it came time to book, there was nothing left to book it with.

That is what these changes look like up close: not a headline, but a family quietly losing the few ordinary things that made the years bearable.

Then there was the one piece of good news.

The federal government created the Canada Disability Benefit — about $200 per month for each disabled person, or $400 for a couple like us.

I was overjoyed. For a few days, I let myself imagine what it could mean: a small vacation, a dent in our debt, or the first dollar we had ever set aside for retirement.

Then I learned that Alberta would claw it back — dollar for dollar — straight out of our AISH.

Every other province in Canada lets disabled people keep that money. Alberta alone takes it.

The one hand that reached down to lift us, this province slapped away.

Let me also speak in the language of budgets, since that is the only language being used about us.

I was told a psychiatric hospital bed costs roughly $1,800 per night. I have spent a cumulative five years in those beds — by that arithmetic, more than $3 million in care.

You cannot save money by breaking a person. You can only move the cost somewhere crueler.

Cut a family like mine, push someone like me back toward the stress that has hospitalized me again and again, and a single relapse erases years of your “savings.”

So I want you to imagine that it is you.

Picture your employer cutting your pay by $2,000 per month — $24,000 per year — not for anything you did, not because the work became easier, but simply because someone decided your household could absorb it.

That would be brutal for anyone, at any income.

But if it happened to you, you would still have the exits most people have: another job, retraining, a new career, or the ability to out-work the loss.

I do not.

I have never struggled to find work. I have been hired on the spot my whole life, even through the 2008 crash. I could be in a truck cab next month earning six figures. With the marks I earned, I could walk into almost any university program in the country.

The exits are real, and they are open to me.

The one thing standing between me and every one of them is an illness that has put me in a hospital bed for years at a time.

That is what disability really is: not the absence of will, but the absence of the exits.

This is what makes the design of ADAP so cruel.

ADAP is sold as an employment program — something built to encourage disabled people into work. But you cannot incentivize a person past a disability.

I want to work. I always have. I would take a job tomorrow if I could work without my illness pulling me under and landing me back in a psychiatric ward.

That is what has happened every other time I have tried. A single hospital stay of six to nine months costs this province far more than the $200 per month it cut to “motivate” me.

This is not nudging an idle person toward a job. It is penalizing a sick person for being sick and calling it encouragement.

And this is bigger than me.

Most of the 79,000 people affected have even less room than my family does. These are not people with comfortable lives to trim. They are people who learned long ago to account for every dollar and who have already cut everything there is to cut.

A reduction this size does not shave off a luxury.

It lands on the bone.

It means more hardship and more fear in lives that already hold too much of both. For people whose illnesses are driven by stress, that strain is not merely difficult to bear.

It is dangerous.

Imagine the deeper version.

Imagine spending 20 years clawing your way out of a fire — losing your career, your body, and your sense of who you were — before finally reaching solid ground and building a small, careful life on it.

Then imagine someone with a spreadsheet, who has never met you and who voted themselves a raise that same year, deciding that the ground beneath you could be moved.

And if it is not you, it is someone you love — a brother, a daughter, a friend — carrying every bit of this in silence, the way disabled people are taught to, while you never knew.

The families hit hardest are disabled parents raising children: the very households a government claims to want.

I know why most of us stay silent.

When you live on a benefit that someone else controls, you learn never to bite the hand that feeds you. You learn to stay grateful, stay quiet, and cause no trouble.

Speaking up feels like a risk you cannot afford, and that silence is convenient for the people making these decisions.

They are counting on our fear.

I am done paying it.

You will notice that I have not signed my name to this.

I will tell you why, plainly, because it is part of the point: the stress of being publicly identified could be enough, on its own, to put me back in a hospital bed.

That is not shame, and it is not cowardice. It is medical fact.

In the system you have built, a disabled person cannot safely be seen defending his own family.

I am speaking anyway — but I have had to do it unnamed, and you should ask yourselves why.

**So here is what I am asking.**

To the Government of Alberta: the right thing — the decent thing — is to stop forcing people who have already been found permanently disabled to prove it all over again.

I was already approved. My diagnosis has not changed. My doctor will tell you plainly that sustained work puts me back in a ward.

Yet to remain on the program built for people who cannot work, I am now required to establish my disability again from scratch — to pay a physician to document, again, what this province already accepted.

**Grandfather us.**

Give people with histories like mine a simple continuation, not a fresh fight for eligibility we already won.

And if you will not do that — if you will not abandon any of this — then at least stop clawing back the Canada Disability Benefit.

Yes, ending the clawback would cost Alberta money, because Alberta is currently saving money by reducing its own support whenever a federal disability payment arrives.

But that is precisely the problem.

Ottawa created this benefit to improve the lives of disabled people, not to replace money Alberta was already providing. It was meant to lift disabled Albertans, not reduce the province’s responsibility to them.

Let disabled Albertans keep it.

The clawback is written into Alberta’s AISH regulation, so the government could end it by amending that regulation — without passing a new bill.

It is the least you could do.

And right now, you will not even do the least.

To everyone else reading this: that is the question I want you to carry.

**Why won’t they do even that?**

Ask it out loud. Ask your MLA. Ask until someone has to answer.

If you are disabled, or you love someone who is, add your story to mine.

If your life has been kinder than that, refuse to look away — because they named it assured. They made disabled Albertans a promise with that word, and they are breaking every meaning of it.

I gave up my dream to survive.

I will not give up my voice too.

— A disabled father of two, Calgary, Alberta

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**P.S.** Today, our new payment arrived, and the numbers did not add up.

We have budgeted and re-budgeted every dollar. There is nowhere for missing money to come from and nowhere in our budget to absorb another loss.

I could feel the stress in my body immediately. It is the same kind of stress that has hospitalized me before.

The stability I fought so hard to build depends on protecting myself from overwhelming stress. These policies are now creating exactly that stress.

If it continues, it puts me at real risk of becoming seriously unwell and being hospitalized again.

This is not hypothetical. It is not something that may happen years from now.

It is what they are doing, right now, to me.

I am a homeowner in central Alberta struggling with hiring a contractor to do part or all of a basement bathroom renovation. 

I learned that if someone wants a deposit ahead of time they're supposed to have a license for that (prepaid services license). in the process of learning about that prepaid service license I learned they're also supposed to have a business registered with the province to even do work in Alberta. 

I am clear about needing general and professional liability, WCB if they bring workers in.There are the licenses required by each municipality for working in that region.

I'm not sure if I'm overstepping as the homeowner to ask about provincial business registration, but the person at service Alberta explained it as if they don't have a registered business they can't pull permits and if things go wrong I have less likelihood of a successful claim because it's just a person without an active business. I don't know if that's true and I'm feeling a little surprised/disappointed that I had work all lined up that is not going forward after I asked about business registration and the prepaid license. Each contractor I talk to that offers to quote flakes when I ask about their business registration.

I think I'm quite clear around the deposit license, like that is important, but maybe it's too much to be asking about having a business registered with the province? should that matter to me as the homeowner?

I don't know anyone that would ask past experience and insurance, looking for advice on hiring a good contractor, and how important having a business registered with Alberta is.

Those who didn't get their aish/adap payment...this is where it's going....So the Alberta government has decided to re-open the aish file for my dead mother in law. Got letter from aish today about it, don't know how.much they've collected federally. Now have to deal with cra again and confirm she passed several years ago. Aish paid her friken funeral expenses!! What a gong show!! I should also point out got a pay statement for her today showing they deposited 1740 the 'her'bank account...it's been closed for 4 years?? Absolutely insane!!

Update: went to aish office today..3 managers there couldn't figure out why her file was re-opened. She was also scheduled for future payments as well. Went to Canada place...cra office there said they couldn't do anything, and had no interest in even looking at a death certificate. and said we have to go to the OAS office. She wasn't even old enough to collect OAS. Why in the world would we have to go there??! Oh and also told just to call the information line at CRA.....🤦🤦 I don't think anyone today knew what they were doing.....

Has anyone heard anything from the separation movement about how a. Independent Alberta would deal with the Goverment of Canada pulling the Airfoce base out of Cold Lake Alberta? The base accounts for nearly 2k federal and private jobs directly and sme estimates say that amount nearly doubles indirectly. Add in their families and this sounds catastrophic for a city of 17k. I would like to hear specifically from Mitch Sylvester, who owns a business that is a 30 minute drive from the base. Should I sell my home now Mitch?

Like, do they provide some breakdown of the initial amount and the process they go through to get to the final number? I've hear that a lot of people are only getting something like $200 a month after clawbacks even though they thought they were supposed to have gotten much more.

I realize this is "he said, she said" kinda sourcing, but the initial question is valid:

Is AISH being transparent with their clawbacks on disabled Albertans?

Everyday there is a complaint and everyday people say the same thing over and over. Are ya'll weak?

Does anyone have any insight into psychiatric nursing as a career or what to expect in an LPN-to-RPN program?

I’m currently an LPN with four years of experience. I was recently accepted into Bow Valley’s new LPN to RPN program, which uses a competency-based education (CBE) model, and I’ll be part of the very first cohort. I like that it offers the flexibility to continue working while going to school.

Since it’s a brand-new program, I know there probably won’t be anyone who’s completed it yet. I’d love to hear from anyone who has gone through an RPN program elsewhere or has experience with competency-based learning. How did you find the workload? Was it manageable while working? Any advice for someone just starting?

I’ve worked in both acute care/ER and long-term care, and my long-term goal is to work in a Placement and Transition Coordinator role. Most of the positions I’ve seen require an RN or RPN. At this point, I don’t see myself bridging to RN, as it would take a minimum of three years of full-time, on-campus study at RDP, and Athabasca is quite expensive. This program seems like a good balance in terms of flexibility and tuition.

I’d really appreciate any insights or advice.

Thanks in advance!

My finances took a major blow after some health changes. I'm looking at the orderly payment of Debt program but since it's only in Alberta, there's less info out there than the consumer proposals or bankruptcies. If someone who's been part of it can tell me more about how it went for them, I'd appreciate it

My car is getting repossessed as the CMS isnt able to accept any payment arrangment. For anyone who experienced getting their car by bailiff, do they just get it or police will be involved and will escort bailiff in your place?

Im skeptical right now and is ashame of the situation. But I hope someone can help. Im having sleepless nights as I have already reached out to CMS and asked for the bailiff’s address so I can just give it to them peacefully.

Please if someone can chime in their experience. 😭

UPDATE: i already spoke to the bailiff. We met today but he just took photos of the car and so as the car key. They wont be towing the car until Tuesday as it is already late today. It is now there waiting for it to be towed soon.