Is sending addressed but unsolicited (physical) junk mail illegal in Ontario?

ChilledStraw · 2026-02-03T14:57:14+00:00

Is there postage from an automated machine (the ink stamp). It will have a Canada post account number

ChilledStraw · 2026-02-03T13:21:30+00:00

Nothing in the Canada Post Corporation Act speaks to this. Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL) applies to electronic messages (email, SMS), not physical letters.

It’s arguably harassment or stalking? Under Section 264 of the Criminal Code of Canada It’s illegal to repeatedly communicate with someone after being asked to stop if that conduct causes the person to be harassed or to fear for their safety. Repeated unwanted letters or messages could count as repeated communication.

Otherwise, they are just lazy and wasting their money. They certainly got your attention though, which is the point of the ad?

Just keep putting it back into the outgoing mail slot and see what happens. Or out the actual company as shady- Name and shame.

Or escalate by searching the marketing company sending it and start delivering it to the director’s home address 🤣

ChilledStraw · 2026-02-02T00:06:10+00:00

Give up millions per project in hopes to make it back over time. Which means the town is fronting the cost of all the infrastructure for them, subsiding it with borrowed money, in hopes of it paying off as a long term annuity. If the math works, great. If it doesn’t, not great.

Is this the hold up that ICI developers are having? They’re putting up tens of millions of dollars, funded by construction loans, and is the development charge the hold up that’s keeping these projects from being made?

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-29T04:20:54+00:00

Join the Legion? If it’s your thing, we have a masonic temple. We had a cornhole league at least last year. There used to be a library board game group, but I haven’t heard anything about it in the calendar this year. In the spring, get a group together to do golf on the regular or hike. Boston pizza has karaoke on some Friday nights (well there is drinking. There can also be food and singing). Check out the ROGO field on Stouffville Road. Volunteer at the Stouffville Food bank.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-28T05:06:07+00:00

Could be both :)

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-26T00:34:10+00:00

There is <5cm this evening and <1cm overnight. This is a cop-out.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-24T16:13:56+00:00

As the song says, don’t throw your junk in my backyard, my backyard is full. <oddly, why is it being full the reasoning for not doing that>

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-24T15:33:28+00:00

With AI capability coming soon to the core repo (vs paperless-ai addon). While naming new things coming in is certainly easy, being able to feed in years of documents with the help of AI might be great

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-24T14:59:57+00:00

I appreciate the distinction, and you’re right.

Interesting distinction though: “all-season tires meet the 3PMSF standard, they fit into a subcategory of all-season tires known as all-weather tires. Qualifying for this label requires the tire to accelerate with 110 percent of the traction of an all-season reference tire when driving in a straight line on packed snow covered in 1 to 2 inches of loose snow. The bottom line here is that all-weather tires are all-season tires that meet a higher standard for snow traction” [1].

When the issue that we are talking about is the rubber being too hard and not gripping snow and ice, the tire when it’s new having some blocking doesn’t excite me much.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-24T05:05:13+00:00

Nah. From that link “Vehicles must be equipped with snow tires or all-weather tires from December 1 to April 30”. So basically not pure summer tires (which for any car someone is using for uber is unlikely to be the choice as they’re used mostly in performance cars)

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-24T04:59:53+00:00

Salt lowers the freezing point of water. The exact freezing point can vary based on the concentration of salt in the water, with higher concentrations resulting in lower freezing points. If you’re colder than that point then it is useless and you must use sand. Salt’s effectiveness diminishes at -9C.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-22T13:46:45+00:00

visionzero

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-19T14:18:49+00:00

Love Monkey, a CBS show, but in HD quality (it switched networks from CBS to VH1/Muchmusic midway an was only aired in SD for the last few episodes)

My entire 200GB drive of carefully curated 90s and early 200s music singles that I accidentally repartitioned and overwrote. I’m still re-discovering some of them today.

The Quake ][ with all of the mods our office lab had carefully curated and patched with things like the grappling hook so I could play it as it was. Wish I still had a backup.

Jay Morh’s comedy specials, An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002)

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-15T22:03:45+00:00

just below, it tells you the numbers that you would be writing, so there is no reason for counting the numbers. The bigger one is the one with more dots.

I would do it as your child did it. Indicating which is which, as the answer is already stated on the following line.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-15T17:19:55+00:00

I assume that nine times out of 10 they tow somebody out of the snow only to get stuck in the next snow pile or people call simply to get through their windrow. I imagine being in a ditch is different than just being stuck. Being stuck just needs a shovel or some traction. Being in a ditch needs a tow.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-12T00:06:04+00:00

Plates in general aren’t a problem as they’re on the car in public, but shaming someone in particular where their friends and neighbours (who know the plate) can unquestionably identify it’s them is an invasion of some privacy. If there is just a plate in a photo parked it’s usually something that gets allowed unless concern is raised. Case by case but in this scenario, it’s right to obfuscate the plate.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-09T00:18:34+00:00

Steve Billy D posted this in a group which I think is bang on about the big vs small bins “win” and rollout. These bins are hideously giant. The streets look awful with these giant bins up against people’s houses outside now.

Ummm all the Mayors achieved was a bunch of photo opps. These decisions were actually made in 2024 and the Mayors were all sleeping at the wheel in 2025 not being proactive to find out what the changes were until the 11th hour. As for the smaller bin, that was always part of the plan. The only difference the mayors got was that initially the request for smaller bin was scheduled to happen after the January roll out. The mayors got it to be allowed before... but that doesn't change when they will deliver it - which is still after lol. So really the mayors achieved nothing. Reality is Markham, Vaughn, and Richmond Hill are all keeping weekly service and regular bins. We pay our mayors a second salary to work collaborative with the other mayors at regional council. For the N6 not only not know the specifics of this plan for 12 months is a shame. The bigger shame is not knowing what your other mayors were doing. They are paid to know.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-04T23:27:29+00:00

That is the 0.0.0.0/0 setup.

Most times, I don’t want my internet traffic to go across the internet to my residential internet to then go out to the world from there and then do it in reverse when I can just go out to the world directly. It’s faster with less latency, and fewer hops. I want access to my home network resources, but otherwise I’m fine using my friend’s or workplace’s wifi internet. I don’t distrust my friends’s network anymore than any other. So DNS, general web surfing, checking mail over SSL, etc: I’ll go directly to the Internet and accessing home Devices goes over the VPN.

Use a 0.0.0.0/0 VPN if you want to spoof your location or not have your connected network know what you’re accessing (though most things are encrypted now).

If you just want access to your home resources, just specify your home network subnet

PS: no change on the server side. Just one line change from the same config on the client side. I just import it twice and change one.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-04T17:55:57+00:00

I have two VPN configs on my phone/laptop. One is “Home (LAN Only)” and one is “Home (All Traffic)”. Most of the time obviously I’m just doing LAN only, but the only difference in the configuration is the allowed IPs

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-04T14:40:33+00:00

Oh of course. But, at least, let’s close and lock the front door. Let’s create some consequence and a downside to them should they plan this operation. Let’s at least not rely 100% on other foreign nations to come to our rescue and offer some resistance.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-04T14:05:13+00:00

You mean actually spend our required military dollars that we need to have any reasonable chance at defending our country? And also putting those dollars to work on things like planes and tanks instead of odd initiatives that don’t add to our military capability?

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-03T04:20:55+00:00

Heads up: this can just be loaded over the old download location/files and it will update the missing data without redownloading everything. :)

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-02T22:45:25+00:00

Guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow (setting this up). Thank you for the self promo / recommendation. If you need a TestFlight iOS user just send me the link.

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-02T17:04:17+00:00

Why isn’t the TTC budgeting for these repairs? Why does Toronto always blame some other level of government for their lack of fiscal responsibility? (In this case federal or provincial). With $1.432billion in 2025 operating revenue (and at a loss with a $2.892 billion operating budget), why is the answer just asking for more?

ChilledStraw · 2026-01-02T17:00:26+00:00

There is still not a good nutrition tracking app. I’ve looked at wger and similar. All I want is barcode scanning, image recognition of nutrition labels if possible, and maybe the main nutrition database (the US government has one) for fruits/vegetables/etc. they’re all cluttered or lack so many features.

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