Our first also needed a frenotomy, and we had to go to a specialist clinic outside the hospital.
My best understanding of that situation was that they first wanted to make sure it was actually a problem over a week or two of observation. Then, the procedure was technically classified as dental surgery, so a doctor at a hospital couldn't perform it for professional/ethical/insurance reasons.
How much support new parents get seems to vary by city (and maybe province?).
I've also had two children born in Canada in the past few years, but in different cities (and provinces). Neither gave us a baby box, but the first provided a free and unprompted hearing test right in the recovery room, while the other required us to make a seperate appointment in the weeks following the birth for that same service.
I had an surprising one, actually: I went to a private religious school, but I had a strangely comprehensive sex education.
It started with unvarnished discussions of human anatomy and cautions about sexual abuse around age 8, and then moved on to the basics of (hetero)sexuality by the time I was a preteen. In high school that continued, though talk about birth control was postponed until the health units of later physical education courses, which not everyone took. Of course, the stress was always that sexual activity should be limited to monogamous (heterosexual) marriage, and there was no mention of anything outside of the hetero-normative.
The last wrinkle was that it was all opt-out. At every point, there was at least one person who would leave the room for the duration of the class because their parents really didn't want them learning about naughty bits.
So it ended up actually providing a pretty good foundation. It was still incomplete and biased, but a lot better than what you would expect when you hear "private religious school."
I'd be interested to see the full breakdown, if only to find out how different my tastes are from the average lemmy.ca user. I nominated four songs, and I wouldn't be surprised if one received zero points because I didn't even vote for it.
I did have Fake Friends at the top of my French list, though.
In fact, the distance between the shores of Newfoundland and St. Pierre and Miquelon is shorter than the width of the English Channel at the Straits of Dover (25km vs 34km).
I don't know if my memory of that era comports with actual history, but this is how I remember it playing out:
It looked like the Conservative attack ads were going to win the election for them again, just as they had against Dion and Ignatieff. They were ahead and gaining in the polls, and the Liberals seemed to have no response. The slogan was, "Trudeau: he's just not ready."
Then the polls stabilized for a few days, and the Liberals released that ad. The polls started rapidly reversing, and the Liberals decisively swept into power. I don't think I even saw another, "he's not ready," attack ad from the Conservatives again after that.
EDIT: One can debate how much of an effect that ad had, and whether Trudeau's actions matched it's promises, but for me it will always stick out as a good bit of political strategy.
I'll also always remember how the Liberals pulled a judo-reverse on the Conservatives by turning their main line of attack back against them. I knew from the moment I saw that ad with Trudeau on the escalator that the Liberals would win.
As Liberal party leader, it's Mark Carney, a former central banker and economic policy guru.
As Prime Minister, it remains to be seen. In theory, Carney could take over from where Trudeau left off before Parliament was prorogued. In reality, the opposition parties have already promised to topple the government and trigger an early election.
Our election cycle is much shorter than the USA's, so even if there's an election called tomorrow we'll have a new government and PM by the summer.
Our first also needed a frenotomy, and we had to go to a specialist clinic outside the hospital.
My best understanding of that situation was that they first wanted to make sure it was actually a problem over a week or two of observation. Then, the procedure was technically classified as dental surgery, so a doctor at a hospital couldn't perform it for professional/ethical/insurance reasons.