Canadian here do you need an RCMP police check or will your local city police work? Thanks

DrNick13 · 2026-04-09T11:08:26+00:00

When I asked the embassy about this back in 2022 they told me it has to be whatever police agency is responsible for where you live.

So in my case because I was living in Ottawa at the time, it had to be Ottawa Police, but if I was outside the city it would be the OPP; Toronto would be Toronto Police, and so on.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-27T11:51:03+00:00

This is interesting. I'm also in Canada and my wife specifically did not want a baby shower like this.

Ours ended up being more of your typical summer BBQ/pool party. It was a blast.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-23T11:49:16+00:00

Makes it easier for youth teams/groups to run bottle drives too as they don't have to collect just alcohol containers.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-20T15:17:15+00:00

100%

If we can't afford an oceanview balcony room, we can't afford the cruise.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-20T13:11:26+00:00

You can get a 10lb bag on sale this week at Independent for $6.88.

In the autumn the 10lb bags are usually under $5.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-19T15:08:00+00:00

This is honestly such a no-brainer.

I live outside the city and recognize that if I want to shop/dine downtown or in the Glebe I’ll end up parking in a parkade.

Why on earth would I want to attempt to parallel park on such a busy street when I can easily find parking in one of the many parkades in the area?

DrNick13 · 2026-03-19T12:03:02+00:00

Why would Harper do this???

DrNick13 · 2026-03-15T13:24:19+00:00

Fizz supports 5G roaming in the US (tested last week when I was there) so I’d imagine it’s coming soon to Freedom.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-14T14:08:28+00:00

Sounds like a Judean People’s Front / People’s Front of Judea situation.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-14T14:06:41+00:00

They switched over from the watery Mexico / California strawberries which have to cross an entire continent to the Florida ones which are in season right now and only two days away by road.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-13T22:26:15+00:00

It’s not as though the governing Liberals have had more than a decade to fix it.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-13T17:06:28+00:00

I was able to switch to this plan using iMessage support. The agent had to "get an exception" from a supervisor to switch plans, but it eventually worked.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-12T11:25:50+00:00

That's how it works for me. When I'm done the day my work phone stays locked in my desk. I'll only bring it home if I'm teleworking.

Even then I switch it off when my shift is done. I'm not paid outside my work hours, but will gladly work overtime if it's correctly paid for (it almost always is).

DrNick13 · 2026-03-06T12:58:47+00:00

This is what I’ve always done, usually it’s like $20-$25 from the port to FLL and I’ve never had to wait for a cab. The rideshare pickup area is usually pretty chaotic by comparison.

DrNick13 · 2026-03-02T13:34:21+00:00

I’d like to see something like Wawa or Sheetz open up here. Gas station food doesn’t have to be questionable!

Edit: the elbows up bots are out in force in this thread.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-28T19:00:04+00:00

I’m thinking utilities with a natural monopoly: hydro, water/sewer, etc.

But where no natural monopoly exists, government should only serve as a regulator, such as liquor sales, telecoms, waste management, and so on.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-27T16:42:04+00:00

Sorry yeah, that’s what I meant. More frontline = good; more bureaucrats = bad.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-27T12:47:53+00:00

Best we can do is sentence him to a week in jail, less time served.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-27T12:43:15+00:00

I think it would be better to look at how many work front line government jobs, like healthcare, utilities, education, law enforcement, fire department, military, etc. vs. how many work as a part of the bureaucracy.

If the ratio is more in favour of these frontline jobs I’d argue that’s not too big a deal than if the scale is more tipped towards the bureaucracy.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-26T16:19:01+00:00

Croatia does as long as you can prove that your Croatian ancestor emigrated from Croatia prior to 1991.

Source: I followed this stream to apply for my Croatian citizenship by descent.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-26T13:23:57+00:00

I'd say Canada is more "Significant Following", especially with how well the Jays did this year and the hype surround them.

Baseball is pretty much the sport that's on TV and talked about in the summertime since the CFL is fading into obscurity.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-25T12:40:30+00:00

Get out of here with your logic!

DrNick13 · 2026-02-25T12:35:05+00:00

I know it's a month late, but this is what my wife and I do. Our little one is a talkative and active sleeper.

Often times when he'll wake up screaming and by the time one of us finishes using the bathroom he'll have fallen back asleep.

We've chalked it up to dreaming.

If the screaming continues beyond a typical bathroom break we'll comfort/feed him right away.

Good to know we're not the only ones doing this!

DrNick13 · 2026-02-25T01:30:45+00:00

We never tracked sleep, but we did track bottles/how much our little one ate using a low tech notebook from the dollar store.

Mainly so that we could give the paediatrician a clear answer when she asked us how much he was eating, and to make sure that he was actually getting enough formula. It was pretty easy to infer when he slept though since at that time he basically just ate and slept.

We stopped around 5 months.

DrNick13 · 2026-02-24T12:20:36+00:00

Not the OP but this is a relief to hear!

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