#canada 2026-06-07

the border question comes up a lot and nobody here will tell you what to declare. that gets stopped quickly

postal in winter

does the postal service or the courier handle winter better

*that should say weekly

quebec seems to be different again, is that right

there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time, ask me again in a month

gel packs either direction

slightly off topic but how do people insulate against cold rather than against heat

slightly off topic but anyone in ontario able to say what theyre actually paying

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the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not

the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about, i could be wrong

i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double

coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another

an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose, i could be wrong

slightly off topic but an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither of them could believe the other one

the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for

i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything

did anyone get stopped at the border bringing it back

transit was 15 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility