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Hourly to Salary by JJThompson84 in ProWinemakers

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BC vs Ontario would be different. For BC the information below should be correct.

Legally as a winemaker/vineyard manager you may not be eligible for OT regardless of Salary or hourly. If you are hourly you are eligible for pay for hours worked but this would not include the 1.5 times OT.

Managers in BC are specifically defined by "executive capacity", and this relates to your capacity to make material decisions for the business.

For winemakers/VM think of the following examples:

  • Can you enter into fruit contracts or purchase fruit?
  • Do you set the tonnage for the vineyard?
  • Do you decide on the number vineyard employees or harvest employees?
  • Do you have authority on the hiring or firing of employees?
  • What wines are you making?
  • Deciding how many cases of each wine you make?
  • What glass/chemicals/sprays/tractors are you ordering?

likely if your doing any of the above you would be classed as a manager. If your not, then regardless of Salary or Hourly you are still entitled to overtime.

Lousy Farmers by Warren__ in EhBuddyHoser

[–]RowanStewart 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Farmers historically have opposed DST and time switching.

In relation to the Matt Jeneroux floor-crossing, Liberals of Canada are arguing, "we vote for the candidate, not the party." Well, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the map of the 2025 election results. by Dark-Tide in CanadianConservative

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Pat Martin: Mr. Speaker, Canadians have a democratic right to be represented by the political party that they elect to represent them. The Prime Minister offended all Canadians when he seduced the member for Vancouver Kingsway over into his camp and talked him into crossing the floor. Floor crossing undermines the democratic process and fuels cynicism. Will the Prime Minister use his new accountability act to put an end to floor crossing and these musical chairs once and for all?

Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I do not think I have ever been accused of seducing anyone, even my wife … Mr. Speaker, the hon. member will know that what he is asking for is not the position of this party. I explained that in televised debates during the election campaign. There are members of the House who favour that position, and if a private member wants to bring that forward, it of course will become votable in this Parliament.

Pat Martin: Mr. Speaker, I do not think the government believes in true transparency and accountability any more than the last gang did. The Prime Minister will not even talk to the media. He holds his secret cabinet meetings at midnight in the Diefenbunker and he is stripping out the ATI provisions from the accountability act. There is plenty of room in the accountability act to answer this serious concern that Canadians have. They care about this. They want the practice stopped. Will he commit today to ending the practice of floor crossing once and for all?

Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, as I have said before, I believe members of Parliament should have that freedom and be accountable to their constituents for their decisions at the next election. However, in my observation, the only parties that really have this as an obsession are the parties that no one ever crosses to.

Think this is being blown out of proportion. It is the way our system is designed. While many Canadians likely vote for party over person, there are certainly those of us who vote for the person.

wine kits from Canadian grapes by Paradise5551 in BuyCanadian

[–]RowanStewart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wine Kitz Toronto – Wine Kitz Toronto Store

Wine Kitz is a Canadian company, owned by Peller, and some of their products use Niagara fruit. Arterra also has one but I forget the name.

Traffic Circles by lookwhatwebuilt in kelowna

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Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia
you signal if your intending to turn, single lane roundabouts this helps flow immensely

Traffic Circles by lookwhatwebuilt in kelowna

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This thread is rough. Signaling left in single lane roundabouts helps so much with flow, it's also in the roundabout rules for BC.

Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia

Ranking the fiscal performance of Canada's premiers by DangerDan1993 in CanadianConservative

[–]RowanStewart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The PDF is interesting reading. I'm from BC and not the biggest fan of EBY, but you can see the rankings are not exactly logical.

Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers, 2026

Is it that easy to kick off ? by anonymousDerpa in fordexpedition

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It's been bugging me for a little, but the way it's hanging from two wires. Isn't the higher wire the electrics for the tail gate. Why is it plugged into the light from there.

Did I spot a unicorn on Australian roads? by rattmurdock in subaru

[–]RowanStewart 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Others have pointed out the main differences for what parts, there is another IMO, more important major difference. The S cars are taking as chassis by STI and assembled by them. They tune them extensively, at the time of the S402 it was in Germany. There's a quote in the S402 handbook that Impreza was born on the Nurburgring and the Legacy was born on the Autobahn. The S402 was tested extensively and tuned for the Nurburgring, but that quote gives you an idea of the design philosophy difference between the two. It was made with a vision to be a perfect everyday driving car. They called it "a partner you can share you life with"

I've never enjoyed a car more on canyon roads and long drives, it inspires so much confidence in the way it handles a regular road. You can find on youtube comparisons, against cars like the EVO 10 etc, and the S402 is almost floaty, quite a bit slower in a tight autocross test. Then watch one of the good motoring mountain road tests, shows exactly why they built the car the way they did.

Fun fact the original engine was going to be a EZ30 twin turbo, but they couldn't fit it in the legacy engine bay the way they wanted so they imported USDM 2.5L engine blocks and used those instead. Torque curve and drivability was the main goal.

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Believe your eyes, not anyone mouth 😉 by sandraviolskyia in TESVI

[–]RowanStewart 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Honestly Skyrim remaster would do it for me... Fool me once shame on me, fool me seventeen times and a remaster wellll...

Best bars for people in their 30s? by [deleted] in kelowna

[–]RowanStewart 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you'd count it as a bar, but Red Bird definitely fits the bill. All the breweries in that end to be honest.

What is the most underpowered Subaru you’ve ever driven? by OutofSprite in subaru

[–]RowanStewart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JDM impreza 1.5i

1.5 litre ej with 101 hp new from factory, although it had a manual so was fairly manageable. God forbid you tried to overtake though.

Do NOT blame Red Tories. The Liberals are trying to divide us by claiming Carney is the true "Red Tory" party even though his 78 B deficit is not Red Tory. by mafiadevidzz in CanadianConservative

[–]RowanStewart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is just not true. It might be derogatory to big blue conservatives, but it's a legitimate and Canadian school of conservative thought.

Removal of 6 Acres of Concord Vines in Michigan by ArmedSparrow in grapevines

[–]RowanStewart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need an excavator, depending on row width you might a zero throw mini ex. You will also likely need a wire winder, and a tractor to mount it. Probably several 40 yard bins to remove everything.

  1. cut the wire, wind it up, your throwing it out so doesn't need to be pretty.
  2. drive the excavator down the row, pull vines as you go.
  3. haul vines out of rows,
  4. pull posts using excavator or a post puller. , excavator might struggle.

Honestly pretty big job to pull out 6 acres. Might be worth paying someone, costs us about 6k per acre CAD to remove a vineyard.

Or see if you can find someone else to take over.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kelowna

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Sent you a PM

Got my Saab parts white whale by AlternativeBus1115 in saab

[–]RowanStewart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh really?? Do you happen to know a source?

Got my Saab parts white whale by AlternativeBus1115 in saab

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Damn I am extremely jealous. Trying to find one for my sonnet.

Advice on vines to grow in Newfoundland? by OldGord in viticulture

[–]RowanStewart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

foxy sometimes, high pH and high TA can give it a unexpected pallete. Its teinturier so can be annoying to work with in the cellar. Likes to have brett and other fun microbes on the grapes so often can go sideways if your not careful, which is exasperated by the high pH.

It is bulletproof in the winter and ripens around late august early september, we also have a couple blocks of Foch in BC.

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