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BCExpat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2026 9:09 am https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/a ... hip-rules/

Looks like this might impact Chef's dreams of moving to Italy.

If Canada decides to join the EU it will all be fine. Then you can live and work anywhere within the union without any red tape.

So Per....is Canada fully joining the EU a real possibility from the perspective of European media reports?

Has anyone else heard anything of this?

Who here wouldn't love that to happen? Instead of wintering in arizona, the Greek isles or spanish Riviera would be an option. Not to mention the ability to live and work in nice places without red tape.

Man we can only dream

Canada could join EU, French foreign minister says
Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.

https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-could-join-eu-says-french-foreign-minister-jean-noel-barrot/

I am looking at pulling the pin on Canada actually. The quality of life here has degraded significantly in the past 10 years and it's becoming far less fun to endure shit weather when there's options on my plate.

Married to an EU/Swede helps

I can't disagree with ya Cuz.

This country is going down the drain. Continually handing out money to immigrants and foreign nations, unable or unwilling to actually green light projects that benefit Canada's economy, letting the extreme left dictate policy rather than telling them to STFU and recognize reality.

It's a mess. I've never been more in favour of western separation than I am now.

Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Northern BC, can form their own country. Give the Yukon and NWT the option to come with or not.

Interesting to hear this - I'm curious how your day-to-day life has changed to point that you want to bail?

I'm curious as well, and where you would consider moving to - that would be better?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a ... ngNewsSerp


Alberta has enough signatures for a separation referendum - great. Now we can vote against it and put the issue to bed for a decade or 2.

I'm okay with Canada joining the EU on a free trade basis but I wouldn't want to take it any farther than that.

5thhorseman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 12:25 pm I'm okay with Canada joining the EU on a free trade basis but I wouldn't want to take it any farther than that.

That's sensible.

But we need a government that will actually permit the resources we have to be traded to European countries that come calling with their chequebook in hand.

The cost of living has skyrocketed but the wages have stagnated.

Housing costs are through the roof and the meth zombies have made our urban centers Fallout level wastelands of violence, crime and thievery with little consequence.

It's extended even to far flung spots all over Canada as well. Vancouver/TO/MTL have always been like this but now people blow half a mill for a basic place in fuckin 100 mile and Lethbridge. Whitehorse, Yellowknife are all bad as well.

When you go to Europe the north had a high cost of living but you have unparalleled access to affordable transport to southern climates where things are far better. If you go into eastern europe (Czech, Croatia, Serbia, etc) you are getting into incomparablly more affordable costs for basics that we can't even comprehend.

I can buy a home in central Sweden for 100-200k that cost easily double that anywhere in Canada...probably triple. The costs for dialy things is pretty well the same but transport on trains and access to the Ryan air/easyJet/wiz airlines where you fly to nicedestinations for like 20-40 Euro per trip are all there waiting for you.

Plus, most of Europe has a standard 5 week per year vacation package for employees. The health care is equivalent, the quality of life is so far beyond Canada it's crazy

My hurdle I'm trying to solve is bringing my elderly mum who is in assisted living. If I could bring her we'd be gone already but it's tough to bring the old to Sweden. The immigration swell they experienced has led to strict changes that make this tough as fuck to solve

If you check out page 86 you will see that the provincial government is now adding PST to certain items that were exempt in the past, i.e. engineering services. It is not a full 7% but they I believe it says 7% on 30% of the total amount. Really not surprised they are doing this to raise additional funds.

https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/pdf ... l_Plan.pdf

Anyone else watching the big rocket launch?

https://apnews.com/live/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-moon-rocket#0000019d-4af8-d2e0-a7ff-7effe6190000

Cornuck wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2026 3:30 pm Anyone else watching the big rocket launch?

https://apnews.com/live/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-moon-rocket#0000019d-4af8-d2e0-a7ff-7effe6190000

Appollo 8