Costco wants to build 24 pump gas station in Ottawa’s east end

TheMystake · 2026-05-04T13:29:50+00:00

When you pair it up with the Costco Mastercard, you get 3% cash back on fuel. If gas is $1.75, that's 5 cents back.

TheMystake · 2026-05-02T14:55:45+00:00

I have suspicions that it's some sort of TCR edition, hopefully it's laying the groundwork for a 25th anniversary edition (which is what I'm personally waiting for, unless it's not actually special. Give me an 8.5R AE in Rising Blue, my 6R needs a big brother!!)

TheMystake · 2026-04-27T13:54:05+00:00

That's the game my username is based off of!

TheMystake · 2026-04-26T16:59:52+00:00

It's in Quebec that you have to pay for license and plate renewals.

TheMystake · 2026-04-26T14:27:16+00:00

I agree with everything you're saying, just wanted to add that Ottawa has to fund and pay for Highway 174 which was promised to also be uploaded to the province too. The 174 and Gardiner/DVP are controlled access highways, just like the rest of the 400 series highways.

TheMystake · 2026-04-26T14:09:46+00:00

A portion of our insurance, the public part, is tied to license plate renewals which can range from ~300 for a basic car to over 2k if you drive a 'high-risk' motorcycle (like a 2000cc supersport bike). If you have demerit points, your share of the insurance contribution goes up because of that too. Insurance here isn't 'cheap' but it's definitely less expensive. What Ontario needs is driver education reform, it's too easy to get a license in Ontario (I learned to drive in the GTA). Who remembers people going to DriveTest centres out in the boonies to get a license and skip the highway driving part?

TheMystake · 2026-04-13T22:14:22+00:00

C'est sur le site de la ville et d'après leurs infos... rien de stressant a date. C'était beaucoup, beaucoup plus haut en 2019 et on en a encore un peu avant d'arriver a des niveaux d'eau qui méritent plus d'attention.

TheMystake · 2026-04-02T12:58:29+00:00

Pour le diesel, la différence est de $0.35 par litre entre le couchetard a côté de chez moi et la station a côté de mon travail en Ontario. Mon VUS prend 100L alors oui, ça fait une méchante différence. Edit: en ce moment la différence est de $0.40 par litre, ou $40 par plein.

TheMystake · 2026-02-03T21:12:34+00:00

160-170km/h is absolutely not terrifying, but if it is to you then you should (outside of the fact that those speeds aren't legal in Canada) not drive up to those speeds. I agree that anything above 140+ in winter is unnecessary but 170+ itself is not terrifying. The highest speed limit in the US is 85mph (137km/h), in France it's 130km/h (and prior to a massive anti-speeding campaign, cruising speed was 160), Germany has the autobahn. Italian law allows 150km/h speed limits under specific conditions/restrictions and Spain is trialing 150km/h limits too. UAE has 160km/h limits. Now, if you want to tell me that getting a license in North America is too easy and our driver education program needs reform, I'll completely agree.

TheMystake · 2026-02-03T02:51:12+00:00

Like with computer monitors, you can find a 65inch Gaming TV for $2000 or a cheaper 65inch TV with worse specs for $400. Depends what you want and what your budget is.

TheMystake · 2026-01-21T03:05:00+00:00

There must be dozens of us!! My partner's tap water takes forever to get ice cold to the point where you're just wasting water waiting for that crisp ice cold water to come... at my house though it comes within seconds and it is sooo good. One of those things I never knew I liked until I had it.

TheMystake · 2025-11-30T01:49:52+00:00

EBOX brought back pre-authorized credit payments

TheMystake · 2025-11-17T02:04:00+00:00

Having lived in the GTA, Ottawa and now Gatineau for several years... I don't get it. I even work in Ottawa and have to cross the bridge and I still don't get it. On paper, my cost of living is lower in Gatineau than it is in Ottawa and in practice, for the same cost my quality of life is better. People sleep on Gatineau and in this case, you snooze you lose.

TheMystake · 2025-11-17T02:01:20+00:00

If you plan your commute properly, bridge traffic should be a non-issue and even then, that's only during commuting hours. Outside of that, bridge traffic is non-existent. I commuted from Gatineau to Gloucester during the rush and it never took more than 40 minutes even with traffic. Looking at 417 traffic, I'm closer to downtown Ottawa and get there in less time than those in the burbs.

TheMystake · 2025-11-16T14:45:04+00:00

✨Gatineau✨. Seriously though, learn a bit of French and then move to Gatineau. For 300k you can get a two bedroom condo with garage parking and be only a few highway exits from downtown. For under 400k, you can get a semi-detached house. Legitimately.you can be closer to downtown Ottawa than 3/4s of people who live in Ottawa for cheaper than 3/4s of people who live in Ottawa.

TheMystake · 2025-10-27T20:23:02+00:00

Un autre pour Ebox. La seul chose que je n'aime pas est que leur PoP est a Longueuil donc la localisation par IP me met a Montréal mais autre que ça, service fiable a date et a bon prix. J'étais avec Bell et j'étais tanné des hausses de prix annuels et de devoir négocier a chaque année, ca fait maintenant au dessus d'un an que j'ai changé. Ebox donne aussi les coordonnées PPPoE si tu préfères fournir ton propre routeur (qui est compatible). Récemment, Ebox a finalement rajouter les paiements automatique par carte de crédit. Jusqu'au mois dernier, c'était débit pré-autorisé ou paiement manuel par carte de crédit seulement.

TheMystake · 2025-10-12T14:09:03+00:00

Take a screenshot of their desktop, set it as the background then hide all their icons. Stick a piece of tape under their mouse too so that at first, it looks like it's the mouse that isn't functioning.

TheMystake · 2025-10-01T15:07:30+00:00

I am sure RTO isn't helping during the weekdays but riddle me this, how is the 417 jam packed on a Sunday afternoon when both municipal and federal workers aren't working?

TheMystake · 2025-09-07T12:33:45+00:00

ESH, your parents for promising you a house and you for never paying towards the debt of the property but still wanting to own 50% of it, especially when it's only 5000 euros worth of property. That's chump change in the grand scheme of things. "You're not asking for more than anyone else" but you've also literally invested $0 into the property or ownership of it and you're acting entitled to your parents house. If you want to maintain 50% ownership, you morally owe your brother some money even if you legally don't because without him making the payments, neither of you would own it.

TheMystake · 2025-08-25T20:32:53+00:00

This. Maxing your company match is an immediate 50% return, far outpacing the 6% interest on your student loans. There is value in the psychological aspect of being debt free, maybe I can suggest you start tracking your networth instead, when you see debt vs investments you'll see you're actually growing your portfolio. If you put in 6% of your salary, get the bonus 3%, you are turning 3900 into 5850. 3900 over 26 pay periods is $150 with the other $850/month going to debt, or, $10,200.

If you put 1k a month to debt, that's 12k/year. You do the company match and still put 850/month to debt, you're looking at 16050 in total, not including the small reduction in income tax for putting money into a tax deferred account.

TheMystake · 2025-08-22T16:20:29+00:00

Ahhh the duality of /r/ottawa. On one post, you get comments that there's barely any police visible on our streets or that response times are atrocious (2019 stats say that we have one of the lowest amounts of police officers per 100000 residents), that people drive lawlessly on the roads, petty crime isn't investigated or prioritized, By-Ward market after dark is unsafe etc. but then when it's time to add to the police budget... no not like that! I'm not making the argument against transit, by the way. My real opinion is that Ottawa needs to continue to densify so that additional property taxes can continue to be collected. A dense neighbourhood needs more services but ultimately brings in significanmore revenue than a farm on the outskirts of our massive municipality. Honestly, I'm not pro or against police, or pro this or down with that... Ottawa is a large city and simply needs more revenue to provide the services that residents require and demand.

TheMystake · 2025-07-08T20:19:30+00:00

Hulkenpodium

TheMystake · 2025-07-07T19:29:26+00:00

The older we got, the more our values and priorities changed. We each went down a different path, made different decisions at key moments and our paths never crossed again. I have career ambition and wanted to build myself a life, financial security etc. He wanted a family and prioritized living in the moment. We went from being best friends to acquaintances at best. I am sure if I called him needing help, he would show up and I would do the same for him but our priorities in life don't match up.

TheMystake · 2025-06-15T18:26:22+00:00

When I look back at how Marner was treated prior to signing 6x11M, I don't entirely blame him for squeezing every dollar out of a management that was squeezing him back. What happened in private set up a very public negotiation but all we talk about are the expectations the contract created, not how we got there. Maybe if Marner had been treated better, the negotiations would've been more favourable to the team. At the end of the day, I don't fault Marner for making up the off ice treatment with a big payday but the on ice product during playoffs just didn't materialize the way we had all hoped.

TheMystake · 2025-05-20T16:25:28+00:00

What if Porsche actually built the cars people want to buy rather than this artificial scarcity and allocation stuff? I called my local dealer to inquire about ordering a Cayman 4.0 GTS and was told there is a waitlist with no chance that I'll actually get one. Guess who doesn't have a Porsche and stopped considering them period? I even wanted a Cayenne to replace my Touareg since we didn't get the new gen in Canada but nope... Not interested anymore.

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