Nils

This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.

I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.

Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost…

What I don’t find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.

They do already, and most of the comments on the noise are “please share promp”.

https://suno.com/song/56199a21-16e1-4906-b3db-5d847cf81a18

They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.

Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and “hire” half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).

The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.

Brazil (R$ right?) used to have a lot of programs to send students to foreign countries, but around 10 years ago the numbers dwindled.

I don’t see many Brazilian undergrads anymore, some grads, but mostly post-docs.

If you shared your field and education level, I could point you to a more precise direction.

But for education, your best bets are:

• Check the exchange programs with your current university, they have partnership with other universities around the world and you probably can pay cheaper with local currency.
• The higher your degree, it is easier to come. Despite what we see on the news about people denying science, and we are losing a bunch of researches to the EU, it is still better to find high education positions here than undergrad or lower. Also, you might be able to get paid, either as TA, researcher or just apply for a coop. That might offset your costs a bit.

Payment here is different, you pay by period X number of curses (Fall term, Winter Term, Spring/Summer) - some places in Europe it would be called semester) not by year, so that 20.000 CAD a year would be split in at least 2 periods. The university puts that so it is easier for you to plan your life. There is no monthly instalments payment like in some countries, but students can apply for awards, support, loans, etc… Check your university of choice for this information.

As others said, you need to take in account other costs too, from the visa process (a student visa will take longer and be pricier than a visitors visa), to housing and food. Some universities offer housing and food at a smaller cost than doing it all by yourself.

From your other comment in the thread, it sounds like you just want to leave the country for a while to experience life somewhere else.

Commonwealth countries and some places in Europe offer an easy to get work visa for under 30 years old. Check if you qualify for those. Usually, those visas lasts for a year, and you can renew if you meet some criteria.

I understand better your points now, thanks for sharing your thoughts and optimism, I needed some optimism.

When I first read the report on budge.canada the “greener path” shows that pretty much everything ended in 2024. Moving forward they mention carbon capture without details what kind of investment they are putting money in (best I could find is funding this https://www.alberta.ca/carbon-capture-and-storage that is also a bit vague), investing in mining (justifying that mining specific minerals helps the environment, but no mention on how to make mining less damaging to the environment and hold companies accountable) and removing the carbon cap saying that investments in several sectors would reduce the emissions anyway. A lot of wishful thinking on the budget text, or on the worst case mental gymnastics malice.

Like, there is this promising

To finance government spending that helps industrial and agricultural sectors get cleaner and more competitive, …

I would love to see the government working with farmers to keep production high and with low footprint. Despite the text being vague on how/who will get the money, farmers are already very thin on their footprint, usually limited to the access of resources to maintain their farms (heat, fertilizers, etc…). A farmer that only has access to gas for heat would not be able to reduce their footprint unless other options are made available.

I also felt like there is no handling “american shitstorm” either, there are plenty of brags on how they capitulate and are one of the least impacted by tariffs because of that.

Also, good thing you bought up the taxes. One thing I found interesting while reading the PDF version earlier, they pretty much teach us on many ways to avoid paying them, I wish that was easily available at the CRA website. =P

dealing with the American shitstorm
getting us on a greener path

Can you clarify your position or share the article you read? I might have missed those points when I read the https://www.budget.canada.ca/ report

there are parts I’d like more of and otherd of which I’d like less
broad compromise that I think is reasonable to a large swathe of Canadians,

A bit vague no? What do you mean?

Thanks.

That $2B USD from the digital service taxes would not be so bad now.

Also, guess who will pay less taxes, and who will foot the bill?

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/11/government-of-canada-releases-budget-2025-canada-strong.html
A bit better diluted: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/budget-highlights-9.6966595

(detailed): https://budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/pdf/budget-2025.pdf

The author surely likes that the mascot is a dog. It feels more of a read and analysis of the terms of use than a deep dive of the tool but it was a good reading and I liked the suggestions.

I also liked the “reminder”.

Edit: you should share this in some community as a post, every time I see this kind of website (pure content no-nonsense) it is shared is in the comments. 15 years ago this kind of stuff was easy to find, but nowadays, I only see them in comment sections. Even the search engine recommended around here would list a bunch of junk in the first pages.