Celebrating the good things about Canada this Canada Day. Good reasons to live there, great reasons to visit. Live it, love it, and travel well… Canada is far from perfect. There’s still a lot of work to do when it comes to poverty, racism, the environment, immigration, and other issues. Issues that are getting a lot of traction in the news thanks to decisions of our neighbour to the south. However, July 1st is Canada Day, so I want to celebrate the good things. Overall, I think my country is pretty decent. For today, I’m going to take the opportunity to celebrate some of the things I like about Canada and being Canadian. 1. Universal Health Care Last year at this time, I was suffering discomfort related to kidney stones, though I didn’t know it at the time. They were small, so hard to diagnose. I went to the walk-in clinic in Yellowknife and even the hospital emergency room more than once. Then I visited another clinic in Vancouver when I was in pain while on vacation. Doctors ran a few tests trying to figure out what was wrong. This included sending me for x-rays, blood work, and an ultra […]

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