Hi nity, yeps, it's their custom to give tip here, even if you use a cr card, not bad actually because service is usually good, but you still have a choice, as for being racist, i've read that all over the net, aus is also my consideration before coming here, again, i agree, unless i personally experience that, i cant validate it, but one thing i can validate, Canadians are the most friendly people to my knowledge, that's why I'm pretty confident to say there are more discrimination there than here. Now, I'm not very knowledgeable about allowances coz I'm single and not that long here, but from what I know from my friends the child tax benefit is pretty big, depends on your income, one friend of mine use that for her kid, and the rest he pays for the amortization of his car, technically iyang anak may ga bayad sa iyang sakyanan, again we have Employee Insurance, if ma taktak ka, you have a year of allowance for that, but again, you have to pay a premium while your employed for that, i dont know if may bayad ba pud sa inyo, maternity is 1 yr and so is paternity (i think), other than that, if your a low income earner, you'll receive a quarterly GST allowance, you can ask a month supply of groceries from the foodbank 6x a year, if you dont have furnitures govt will provide, and even everyday food, makipila ra ka
, again i think vacation leaves depends from the company, like me, relatively new, ill get 3 weeks vacation after 2 years I'll get 4, so depende ra jud na, dinha ba ang 4 weeks is across the board? which I doubt..what I love about here is people here are too rich that they give away things here and there, mga piano, tv, sala sets, washing machine, refs gi pang hatag lang, even sakyanan, last time i saw sa website a 1998 mazda gi pang hatag ra, uban as low as 300 dollars maka palit naka sakyanan heheh, hey they even give their kitchen sink lol, garage sales are everywhere, mao mga pinoy ngari abtik kaau, bought an altec lansing speakers for a dollar hehehe; well as I said, very similar atong countries, i guess that will depend on your preference, like ako, sington ko, daghan pud ko hubakon na frends but ngari, wa jud na problema, ako di na ko sington pag abot sa work unlike before sa pinas kay init, for me its better to be cold than init, cos mag add raka layers solve na, pero kung init, ambot lang saun na pag butang ug electricfan sa sanina hehehe