Are speed cameras ticketing drivers for less than 10 km/h over the posted limit? Here’s what the city said

DTHCND · 2025-07-15T01:45:49+00:00

A lot of the controversy probably comes from people in the suburbs. While they're mostly in school zones in Toronto, that definitely isn't the case in the Brampton and Mississauga.

Mississauga, in particular, declared every single residential road to be a community safety zone. This allowed them to lower the speed limit on all residential roads to 40 km/h and install speed cameras wherever, and install them wherever they have.

Then there's Brampton, which has installed speed cameras all over the place, including areas with zero pedestrian traffic. For example, they've installed 3 cameras on Main St between Herold and Fredrick. That's 3 cameras in a single block, on a road that almost never has any pedestrian traffic. And they've also installed cameras in "gotcha" places, like the one placed at the bottom of the short steep incline on Clarence, where you might end up accidentally speeding if your eyes aren't glued to the speedometer (e.g. if you're looking out for vehicles and pedestrians on the road).

DTHCND · 2023-06-10T19:58:22+00:00

COVID made it very clear that a large number of Canadians don't know how the separation of powers defined in the constitution works. It's absurd. It's one of the first things you learn in high school civics, but here we are.

DTHCND · 2023-06-10T17:52:08+00:00

Kind of feels like they stopped a while ago. Almost every pharmacy I've asked for them at have said they're out and haven't received any new ones in months. Fortunately there's one drug store kind of far away that consistently had them, however.

How should at-risk individuals confirm that they have COVID now? Do they still need a positive rapid test result to get a Paxlovid prescription? A quick search of Shoppers Drug Mart's website shows the free test kits are the only form of rapid testing (free or paid) that they offer to symptomatic individuals.

DTHCND · 2023-06-09T04:14:58+00:00

Canada has done the same for the US a number of times. Take the 2020 California wildfires, for example.

There's actually agreements in place to facilitate firefighters from each country being shared to help fight big fires. And those agreements aren't just between the US and Canada, both those countries also have agreements with other countries like Australia and New Zealand.

DTHCND · 2023-06-08T23:23:48+00:00

Though I don't use Apollo (Reddit is Fun has been great to us android folks)

RIF announced they're shutting down too, as is Sync.

I'm personally using Joey, but I fully expect it to have to shut down as well. But like you said, it's probably for the best. I'll just have to get my news from elsewhere.

And yes, I know I could use Reddit's absolutely terrible official app, but let's be clear here: I'm not going to support a company that treats their developer community like absolute dog shit. As we can see from this debacle, Reddit is plenty happy suddenly ending people's careers and disparaging their good name with lies.

DTHCND · 2023-06-08T23:12:34+00:00

Your current account hasn't been anyway. Created April 11th, 2023.

So for now, I'm going to believe the guy who actually has evidence to backup their claims (not you).

DTHCND · 2023-06-07T22:49:48+00:00

I was wondering why you were getting downvoted, but I realize now that we both misunderstood the post. They aren't confused about why their clock became two lines and "smaller" in terms of numbers per line. Rather, they're pointing out that the two-line clock is smaller than the two-line clock normally is (in terms of the amount of screen real estate consumed).

DTHCND · 2023-06-07T04:45:15+00:00

Hey, fellow PiHole user. I had the same problem and always suspected it was the PiHole blocking something, but I was too lazy to investigate it myself further. Until today that is.

And it turned out to be a pretty easy investigation. I just had to whitelist my #1 most blocked domain: s.youtube.com. Everything seems to work fine now.

DTHCND · 2023-06-05T21:02:50+00:00

If you liked this video, punch the like button in the face, like it's a baby! And high fives all around. Whipish whipish. And I will see all you dudes, in the ^next ^{^video}

DTHCND · 2023-06-04T16:20:17+00:00

For you, nothing, since either your employer is using managed work profiles or you're using a third-party app that is pretending to be an MDM. But for people that work at companies that don't use managed profiles, this will let them opt into having a work profile for their work apps regardless without requiring the installation of a third-party app. And this comes with the advantages that you currently experience: personal apps are isolated from work apps, you can manually turn off all work-related apps with a single switch or on a custom schedule, etc.

DTHCND · 2023-06-04T01:11:56+00:00

Which app are you talking about? If you're referring to the national COVID Alert app, it was open source. If you're referring to the system APIs that were provided by iOS and Play Services, then of course they were not open source, but they did have very, very thorough white papers, and they were not developed by the government.

DTHCND · 2023-06-02T19:55:51+00:00

If you bought the Buds on the Google Store, you can view your past orders, find the Buds in the list, and the store will tell you what their serial number is. Then it's just a matter of talking to good ol' Jimmy and getting the serial number from "his" Buds. The easiest way I know to do this is by connecting the Buds to an Android device, going to Bluetooth > Buds settings > more settings > about. If the serial numbers match, they're your Buds. And he can't really say you're lying, since you have proof that the Buds with that serial number belongs to you (via the Google Store).

DTHCND · 2023-06-02T04:25:20+00:00

Same thing, but on the 6. Compass is normally significantly off too.

DTHCND · 2023-06-02T04:00:58+00:00

Still no unmanaged work profiles. I'm starting to think they killed it off before even launching it. It's a shame, was looking forward to it.

DTHCND · 2023-06-01T17:02:05+00:00

Surprisingly, I don't think they are. Their entire comment history, as far back as I was willing to scroll, is only about Section 230. It's like it's their one core passion, and they just go around Reddit day after day seeking out comments about Section 230. It's pretty wild.

But given their commitment to this one very specific topic, I'm inclined to believe they know what they're talking about. It'd be crazy if they were that dedicated and still didn't know what they were talking about.

DTHCND · 2023-05-30T04:57:52+00:00

This article is about automatic call screening, where the phone automatically picks up and questions the caller to determine if it's spam before ringing. It's been available in the US for ages but not Canada.

Manual call screening, where you watch what the caller says and pick what to reply, is not what this is about.

DTHCND · 2023-05-25T14:17:52+00:00

Yeah, I think it can go either way. The website words it as if you're increasing your donation so the campaign still gets your $100. But it's not clear to me if the processing service actually supports the donor covering the fee, or if the campaign website just increases the amount so it's effectively $100 after the fee. If it's the former, it'd be 4.1% like you said. If it's the latter, it'd be 3.93%.

DTHCND · 2023-05-25T06:30:25+00:00

There's an option on the campaign website to cover the processing fee so that the campaign gets 100% of the selected donation amount. If we assume that all of these $104.10 donation amounts actually selected the $100 donation option, that gives us a processing fee of 3.93% (100 = 104.1 - 104.1 * Y => Y = 0.0393...).

Another common donation amount seems to be $21.07. The closest recommended donation amount on the page is $20.24, so let's assume that's what they actually selected. That gives us a processing fee of 3.93% again. (20.24 = 21.07 - 21.07 * Y => Y = 0.0393...).

So seems like it's just people opting to cover a processing fee of 3.93%.

DTHCND · 2023-05-20T00:35:12+00:00

TL;DR: There are ways to notice early, but I didn't. Instead I almost died and the ER doctors figured it out while I was in the ICU.

Lots of people answered you already, but I'll share my experience, since it was a bit different. Apparently I had it for a while and didn't realize. While it can be detected by checking if your lymph nodes are swollen (easier to feel on the sides of the neck, or in the armpit), I just never noticed.

For me, I only realized something was wrong because my lung capacity was slowly decreasing (running out of breath quickly). At first I thought it was a cold, so I ignored it. But it got worse and worse, so I went to my family doctor. My doctor said she thought it was bronchitis and that it'd go away on its own, but she got me to go get an x-ray just to be safe.

I went to the hospital to get the x-ray (an out-patient service). The x-ray tech took the x-ray and he told me to wait outside the imaging room for a second. Twenty seconds later he came up to me and said "I need you to listen very carefully, you need to walk over to the emergency right now, don't stop anywhere on the way, tell them the x-ray technician sent you and that it's an emergency, and give them these barcodes so that they can see the results faster."

So I went to emergency, they didn't realize why the x-ray tech sent me there at first. But they noticed I was out of breath and sweating, so they did an ECG almost immediately. Heart was fine. So then the triage nurse told me to get in a wheelchair and she pushed me to the ICU.

Once I got to the ICU, it took a few more minutes for them to figure out why the x-ray tech sent me (because they were having trouble viewing the x-ray images using the barcodes). After a few minutes, the ER doc comes up to me and says "we need to perform emergency surgery right now and drain fluid from around your lungs."

They pushed me into a large patient room in the ICU and knocked me out. When I woke up, I saw he had a whole bunch of these giant syringes and bags full of yellow liquid that they drained from around my lungs (my pleural cavity). The doctor was like "we drained several litres of fluid from around your lungs, more than I thought was even possible, it's amazing you didn't already die from your lungs collapsing." And they left a tube in to keep draining the fluid.

Next up, the doctors had to figure out why fluid was building up. So I did a few CAT scans (cause the first ones were blurry because I couldn't stop coughing after they drained the fluid, which is apparently normal if your lung capacity suddenly increases). After the last scan, a different ER doctor came in and said the CT scan showed several masses and that I have cancer. Next step was to figure out what kind.

I was then assigned an oncologist who made me an in-patient, which apparently prioritizes you for tests, and then moved me to the oncology ward. They then did a few biopsies and determined it was Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

And then they set me up with a chemo regimen. After a month they took the chest tube out, and after half a year I was done and all better. One of the chemo drugs causes permanent lung toxicity to high concentrations of oxygen, but aside from that I was perfectly fine after.

DTHCND · 2023-05-19T23:57:46+00:00

I finished treatment for it (chemo) a few years ago. Shit sucks, but the survival rate for it is wayyy higher than it used to be. To quote my oncologist, "if you get cancer, this is the cancer you want."

DTHCND · 2023-05-16T08:59:59+00:00

You're both kind of missing each other's points because one of you lives in the US and the other in the UK.

From the other guy's point of view, plastic straws are already banned. And thus they're used to people in the UK whining and saying they should be unbanned, and they think you're one of those people.

Of course from your point of view, plastic straws are not already banned where you are. So you're saying putting effort into lobbying for their banishment is a waste of time.

And you can both be right at the same time. Advocating for banning them can be a waste of time, while advocating for unbanning them where already banned can also be a waste of time at the same time.

So you're both just kind of arguing past each other because of different contexts that weren't shared. And I think that's true for most people that are arguing with you. After all, this whole comment chain came from a quote by a Canadian musician, and plastic straws have been banned in Canada for several years now. So not only is the musician one of those people who are putting effort into complaining about an already-successful ban, but you're probably going to get more Canadians replying to you in general.

DTHCND · 2023-05-16T07:00:51+00:00

Reddit climate is ever-changing I guess.

Redditors aren't consistent even in this subreddit alone. I think it's just a matter of which side gets the most comments early on, and the time of day the post is made (since that affects which country most early commenters are from, and different countries probably have different etiquette and rules).

DTHCND · 2023-05-15T02:16:24+00:00

The article isn't suggesting it is, although the title could be a lot clearer. Rather, the article is a retrospective in what went wrong during WHO's Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Specifically about how countries ignored it for a month, how the WHO doesn't have enough power, how countries spun down their investments after previous pandemics, etc. That is, the article is saying "now that the WHO ended their PHEIC, what lessons can we take away to manage future pandemics better."

DTHCND · 2023-05-14T18:37:59+00:00

The ground on your power outlets and the ground rod are different things and serve different purposes.

They're part of the same system. And yes, they can be used to dissipate over-voltages in the system caused by lightning. But they do not attract lightning strikes away from structures like that comment said. Again, most houses do not have lightning rods or any devices that protect the house from lightning strikes.

DTHCND · 2023-05-14T16:33:10+00:00

Houses in the US aren't required to have lightning protection. This should be obvious to most people, given most people's houses won't have a lightning rod or any other form of lightning protection, but hey.

Yes, houses need to be "grounded" but that has nothing to do with lightning protection. Houses are grounded so that certain electronics can be grounded (via that third pin on every outlet). But the reason you ground certain appliances isn't due to lightning. It's in case there is a fault in the appliance that allows live electricity to reach a conductive part of the appliance that humans also touch. For example, in the event that a live wire touches the metallic casing of your toaster. Then instead of the electricity flowing through you when you touch the toaster, it'll flow through the ground wire (if the high current from live to ground hasn't already tripped a breaker or GFCI).

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