The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Yes. If you're young, educated, speak English, and have a good job offer, you'll have enough points to be granted permanent residency, after which you get Canadian citizenship after five years I believe. We have a points system that favours economic immigrants and a much higher immigration rate than the US has relative to our population.
Even if you don't have quite enough points, I think you can get a two year work visa pretty easily and then having Canadian work experience gets you more points which allows you to apply for permanen residency. There are probably other types of work visas you can get too, because I know people who have been here for years who don't have their permanent residencies yet.
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