The way the US media handles news the same way throughout their network is very scary and it's hard to believe anything they say when they repeat word for word what everyone else says.
I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.
From The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
> The First Great Secret of the Medical Profession: 90% of all illness cures itself with absolutely no intervention from the doctor. Each of us, after all, is the direct descendant of innumerable unbroken lines of survivors
You don't need to speak french to work in Tech in Montreal, but you won't be able to work everywhere. I know many people who don't speak french and work in mtl.
Montreal is probably the only city in the province where you don't need to speak french though.
Canada also have the "investor program (not passport, thanks robteix)". (grants permanent residency visa)
It requires you to be accepted through an application (no criminal / health problems) and to 800k loan interest-free to the government for 5 years. You also need business experience and at least 1,6m$ in legally-acquired assets.
Maybe Australia also have other criteria ? I think countries on that list don't ask many questions...
Pretty bad "article" overall. It could've offered so much more information :(
Canada does not have an "investor passport." And AFAIK, neither do Australia nor NZ.
They offer _residency_ visas, not citizenship. Once you are a permanent resident, you can apply for citizenship once you fulfill the residency requirements (3 years over the last 5 in the case of Canada), but the article is about countries that offer citizenship _outright_.
oh yeha you're right I didn't use the correct term sorry, you get permanent residency.
Normally once you have the PR, you only need to spend the required time here and pay the fees to get the full citizenship. It's pretty straight forward (Friends are in the process)
It appears there is indeed a link between short/long sleep and mortality. As you said, the possible causes are usually not reviewed. This concerns me as I do sleep 9h+ on average. (But then again I do have an eye-illness that require a lot of concentration to overcome)
> Conclusion: Both short and long duration of sleep are significant predictors of death in prospective population studies.
> (...)
> Future studies should be designed to answer the question whether sleep duration is a cause or simply a marker of ill-health.
https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/33/5/585/2454478?sear...
I wouldn't say it's obligatory, especially since the poster already was aware of not assuming gender by using "he/she" (though I know some people identify as neither of those). I do prefer singular they; it's very natural and yes, it's been around in English for a long time.
The use of their / they refering a single person doesn't come naturally to me as english is my 2nd language and we're taught its plural. (it can indeed be used as "third person plural singular" according to oxford dict.)
Since its the "least bad" (to my ears) of the gender-neutral pronouns on the wiki page I'll try to use the "they/their" instead.
LWT has great montage on this.