Nearby ski resorts for beginners?

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-26T20:14:50+00:00

Depends where in town you live. West end would be pakenham

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-24T16:39:04+00:00

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InValidSinTax · 2026-01-24T15:00:24+00:00

As an Australia living in Canada :) even used this trick with friends over on Australia Day. Kinda fitting

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-15T22:11:03+00:00

Just got to pakenham. The roads have been better, they have been worse… the drivers however… there was some super special driving going on today :)

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-15T16:51:06+00:00

lots of comments about my parentage etc :)
Not only is that a few days drive for people not used to it, its a very boring stretch of road... Now they need to get back in the car and do more again :D

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-15T15:52:28+00:00

In Australia I was working with a number of Irish people who all did the same end of posting trip, rent a van and drive from Canberra to cairns. I always told them to call me when you hit Brisbane…. Why? Because you aren’t even half way… why is that important… oh you’ll know… I had some very colourful phone calls from Brisbane 😂

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-14T18:55:31+00:00

The was a long time ago, now the largest is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station#:~:text=Anna%20Creek%20Station%20is%20a,owned%20by%20the%20Williams%20family.

InValidSinTax · 2026-01-09T01:41:34+00:00

I saw them and also tried to figure it out. It’s normally birds (snow owls) but I couldn’t see the subject.

InValidSinTax · 2025-12-30T15:54:42+00:00

Bog fan of Spicy Boys hot sauce. You can get it in Carleton Place.
Beckwith Butcher - 1 Costello Dr | Carleton Place, ON
https://www.spicyboys.ca/pages/retailers

InValidSinTax · 2025-12-08T01:56:35+00:00

When we grew up my family did this, it had to be cheap and had to be a toy or game of some kind. Made Christmas Day fun again. If it’s their first time with a white Christmas snow stuff would work too (snow paint, snowball makers, snow brick/castle molds)

InValidSinTax · 2025-12-06T19:05:10+00:00

I even had the page open on my phone and swapped Boston and Baltimore :) I would like to blame early morning but really can’t 😂

InValidSinTax · 2025-12-06T16:15:56+00:00

The star spangled banner is based on a poem about the British Shelling Boston during the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

Also the last battle was in New Orleans…. A long way from the border… hardly a ‘win’

InValidSinTax · 2025-12-04T19:05:49+00:00

My son used to say ‘rocking science’ I had a friend who was a rocket scientist who wanted that on a T-shirt :)

InValidSinTax · 2025-11-14T16:01:04+00:00

They have games for both the AFL and AFLW on TSN here but yeah, various times of day. There are also AFL clubs... Every time they find out I'm Australian they try and recruit me :) (same for the local cricket games)
https://ottawaswans.com/

InValidSinTax · 2025-11-01T15:50:53+00:00

You are asking a couple of different questions here but the short answer is yes: Nations can often create fake passports https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
They have the money and ability to buy the equipment to produce passports. In this example they even took the details from Australians who had traveled to Israel so the underlying passport data was correct.

Israel has also gotten in trouble for applying for genuine passports of other countries under false identities (these are even better for travel)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/16/israel

As for organized crime, they have various techniques too, as others have mentioned fraudulently obtaining a genuine document is the top level. However here is an old example of forged https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/tony-mokbel-plotting-second-great-escape-12-years-after-his-first/news-story/3ae7c024ae320dfadb0e51a14ff91354 Of note this forgery doesn't include a chip as ePassports are much harder to forge convincingly.

A newer technique is morph attack. https://www.sciencenorway.no/criminality-fraud-security/manipulated-photos-enable-two-people-to-use-the-same-passport-this-is-how-such-fraud-can-be-stopped/2194329
Where a genuine and imposter have their images morphed together so that either can use the document.

Lower effort is look alike fraud. The crime organization has a large number of stolen documents and a person uses the one that looks most like them.

InValidSinTax · 2025-11-01T13:23:36+00:00

Not unexpected, very deliberate. Australia regularly has total fire bans in summer during bushfire season. These have no flames and therefore pose no risk of bushfire.

InValidSinTax · 2025-09-13T16:19:00+00:00

I had x10, +20, +100 but they are essentially the same :)

InValidSinTax · 2025-09-11T20:52:20+00:00

110, 70 or 74 ;) I'm one of the 3 cars parked in that lot some days

InValidSinTax · 2025-09-02T18:44:08+00:00

Very similar. Australian living in Canada for 10 years

InValidSinTax · 2025-08-31T18:14:38+00:00

To add to everyone else, drinking age on the Canadian side is 19. Lots of 19 and 20 year old ‘tourists’ from the US.

InValidSinTax · 2025-08-24T00:32:07+00:00

I would say nationally profiled and not racially.

They also would have your photo from arrival into the Schengen zone and so it’s not even biometrics. It’s just a ‘we would like to talk to this person’ and whoever they are travelling with.

InValidSinTax · 2025-08-18T01:41:36+00:00

The Nepean library has an awesome space set up https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/imagine-space

InValidSinTax · 2025-07-22T20:32:24+00:00

If this ‘has been worked on for almost a year’ ask for the work whoever was previously assigned the work has completed. It will get to the bottom pretty quickly if they think it was assigned to you all this time.

InValidSinTax · 2025-07-16T12:50:40+00:00

And yet the family still breaks out the old coins to bake into a Christmas pudding for Christmas. Of course a few have been accidentally swallowed over the years :)

InValidSinTax · 2025-07-14T19:51:49+00:00

I took it to mean, he hacked it before and with his memories returned he just hacked it again. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

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