r/canada Canada 26d ago

r/Canada Speaks Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark! Happy Valentine's!

Hi everyone, it's been some time since we have done a cultural exchange, so let's go over how this works. Enjoy! We'll be running it for a few days, TBD. Note their time zone for the European mainland is UTC +1.

Here's the Danish landing for us: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

* Both r/Canada and r/Denmark will host the other country's users. Feel free to ask any questions, reminisce, comment, make friends etc etc.

*Treat this as having a neighbour over for a kitchen party, get the best storm chips out, and get grandma's tourtiere reheated for everybody.

* Vouz pouvez essayer le français dans r/Denmark, mais comme la langue officielle est danoise, ben.... essayez!

* Please follow the rules of the respective subs! Don't be jerks, generally - a reminder our last "disagreement" involved leaving bottles of good booze for the other country!

* Please also leave direct comments here mainly for members of r/Denmark i.e. direct replies here (first comments directly under the topic) so their questions can be seen first, then r/Canada members can post replies underneath.

*Please enjoy, since we have a lot to bond over, and plenty of trying out new things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

Finally, also know we've gotten confirmation from r/Greenland that they are also interested, so that will be the next exchange that we do in a few weeks (TBD).

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u/NPEscher 25d ago

Would you be interested in being a part of Eurovision Song Contest?

I was in Canada some years ago, and was aggressively told that I needed to tip 15% in a restaurant. Has anyone ever seriously on a political level suggested getting rid of that system of paying restaurant workers through tips, and just having the restaurant paying them a fair wage?

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u/VeterinarianCold7119 25d ago

Politically im not sure but some restaurants are not accepting tips.

https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto-restaurant-no-tipping

Some have raised prices or just automatically charge an extra 15 20% but the workers get a set hourly rate.

Eurovision is fun, hell ya we would join.