Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living

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    2 days ago

    There are canadian credit unions in BC without fees. Not smart for be to say online where i bank, due to how people can glean info. But check around you will find it

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      2 days ago

      I’m at a credit union. It has fees. I’ve never seen one in Canada with no fees. That’s ok! I use a EU bank and a JA bank that have no fees.

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        2 days ago

        Search more in Canada. I haven’t paid any fees in 10 years. But hey EU banks for the win.

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          I’ve spent too much pain with credit unions already. No, they didn’t work. Too many fees. I’ve spent literally years looking at different institutions in Canada and I have never found one that doesn’t have fees for what I do. It’s possible that what I do is different than what you do and that’s why you’re having a different experience.

          I have a VanCity account only to pay tax. That’s it.

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            1 day ago

            Other Canadian Credit unions are no fee chequing and savings, no fee interac, no fee transfers berween products. Maybe there is a fee if you are doing something else?

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              1 day ago

              I demand no fees for:

              Savings, chequing, Bank to Bank transfers (Inc swift), direct deposit, debit, and credit.

              I won’t pay fees anymore. I refuse. So it means I mostly can’t work with Canadian financial institutions. That’s fine, there’s other options that work great with no fees.

              The only “gotcha” is you basically need a Canadian account to pay tax. But there’s ways around that too…

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                24 hours ago

                Of have to check our bank to bank policy, but all the rest are free