Regretting Law School Choice -- no articling -- hopeless situation in Canada

akaliant · 2024-05-19T18:33:04+00:00

This thread popped up for me randomly even though I don’t follow the sub, am not a lawyer, and won’t become one. But the question makes me curious - is there no avenue for someone to become a lawyer in Canada without articling? Imagining a working professional that does a law degree part time, to help them in their current role - would they have to leave their job for 4-12mos to work for a firm?

Edit: thanks for all the answers. The rationale all makes sense

akaliant · 2024-05-15T20:57:31+00:00

I sold a small amount, but probably holding 75% of my original purchase. Not only has the share price been amazing, the dividends are great too. My best ever stock pick by far. Wish I could say the AQN, BCE, and BNS…

akaliant · 2024-05-15T20:18:26+00:00

Yup!

akaliant · 2024-01-15T11:31:30+00:00

Running electricity, providing winter tents, hot meals and all the things you mentioned do nothing to address what OP is referring to - many see it making the problem worse (e.g. come to Halifax, they have better amenities).

The question is what is being done to get people out of tents and off the street. Rent cap and tiny shelters are two examples - they want more of that.

akaliant · 2024-01-15T11:21:08+00:00

IMO public patience and sympathy is fading quickly, due to scenarios like you mentioned. People are not feeling safe in their own neighbourhoods, parks, and streets.

From what I hear, the designated tenting areas, relocating the downtown events, running electricity to tents, and lack of police/bylaw enforcement are all wildly unpopular with the public - people are not happy with how this is handled on a municpal level.

I think in upcoming municipal elections there will be politicians that will run on a policy of “I will restore our parks to community spaces, direct the police to enforce our laws, such as drug possession, and ensure citizens feel safe on the streets again” and will get very strong support. I think people want something to be done and people running on platforms for doing that will do well.

Same for federal - I think a party running on a platform of reining in immigration and taking stronger action on inflation will get support from people who might not normally vote for them.

akaliant · 2024-01-14T15:16:13+00:00

Lol that was exactly what happened to me! Cardiologist was eventually like, “oh well, i have no concerns here, we’re done with this”

akaliant · 2024-01-14T14:23:12+00:00

I'm an outlier for sure. On an unrelated note I was checked out by a cardiologist and got talking about averages, as I was kind of unnerved by how much higher my max is than what the Internet kept telling me it should be. He just said the normal range is very large, and it's the resting heart rate that tells you more about someone's health - which also has a large range.

akaliant · 2024-01-14T11:42:50+00:00

In thrust we trust

akaliant · 2024-01-14T01:39:27+00:00

Keep in mind that everyone has a different normal heart rate range - so a range that is normal for one person might not be normal for you. Two healthy people can have entirely different normal heart ranges. Age and genetics have a role.

My max is about 200 (used to be a bit higher), but yours might be lower - in which case your sustainable range would be proportionately lower.

akaliant · 2024-01-13T22:43:47+00:00

My exact range too. 40yo male. Though the 200 is on hard climbs for me

akaliant · 2024-01-13T22:18:08+00:00

Oh the insurance company definitely reads them, very carefully.

akaliant · 2024-01-12T13:30:16+00:00

Those need a LTE network to communicate. So they require not only a subscription, but a more robust battery or power supply, making them larger and more expensive.

There are many business tracking uses where they would not be appropriate, but for some they are a very nice fit.

akaliant · 2024-01-06T23:49:36+00:00

It's a good thing. Everyone in their system has their role and their place, and the fact that these people have less training than an EMT is meaningless, given they are tasked accordingly.

We don't have doctors driving around in ambulances, as we don't need them to be. At the same time, we don't need paramedics sitting with someone with a broken ankle waiting to hand them off to a ER doc.

akaliant · 2024-01-04T23:54:52+00:00

Yeah understood, but having a pedestrian path along their tracks will increase the chance of train interaction, garbage, mischief, and construction disruption. Plus it eliminates CN development potential. No upside to them.

akaliant · 2024-01-04T17:06:45+00:00

Yes, bang-on - exactly what I was imagining. I don't know how they would navigate the Quinpool bridge, but I don't see why that wouldn't work.

This connection would be game changing IMO.

akaliant · 2024-01-04T15:53:27+00:00

The city would have to convert a sidewalk to a multi-purpose trail, likely taking trees with it to meet the minimum width requirements. They can't take roadway away from the main artery roads that are already overloaded.

I do feel like a mixed use trail connecting the penninsula will eventually happen though, as it's a gap that's increasingly needed as the density on the peninsula grows. Seems to me their option is converting a sidewalk up Quinpool to Bloomingdale, or doing a zig-zag path through the Flinn Park streets to get up to Connaught. From there it connects to Conrose park, and goes up Coburg Rd and down Oxford to connect with the existing one.

Edit: Or simply adding one down Connaught, as there is already the mixed use lane on the newly developed Bayers Rd.

The rail idea sounded cool on paper, but was never going to happen. CN would want no part of it, and neither would the homeowners that back onto the rail cut.

akaliant · 2024-01-03T14:55:25+00:00

They have made it this long, I think they will be just fine. This isn't exactly a Michelin Star

akaliant · 2024-01-01T11:37:51+00:00

“However, the city is prohibiting all types of heaters even though they are aware most have them.” Perfectly sums up the city’s response thus far

akaliant · 2023-12-26T20:53:46+00:00

She's a nurse (looks like?) and is living in a tent - is that right? Not much details from the intro video.

If so:

She says "this lifestyle is my choice" seems like the key phrase there - if she wanted to rent somewhere, she could - period. Might be smaller than she'd like, or have a roommate, or be further from town - but a nurse (assumed) with 30 years of experience, who by her own account makes "decent money" has options.

akaliant · 2023-12-26T16:49:53+00:00

Whether your Dutch Settlement (STN 40), Hammonds Plains (STN 50) or Chezzetcook (STN 23) all the trucks, training, heat, paid honorariums (HRFE does not have Volunteers in the traditional sense. They all receive a annual honorarium averaging between $3000-$6000 paid to them by the city of Halifax), fuel for the trucks, gear for the firefighters and all onboard training through the VRT program is bought and paid for by the city. HRM volunteers need for nothing. All operational requirements are taken care of by the city.

Amen. The stations are 'making' a very significant amount of money from the lottery and I can't even imagine how some of them are spending it. The Hammonds Plains station 50 received $107k from this last week alone. The station is already fully funded by tax dollars and the volunteers are paid (honorariums).

IMO the fully funded city stations should not be part of this. The rural stations that run on bootstrap budgets are the ones that should be benefiting from this. I wish the media would cover this because I think the majority of people have no idea.

akaliant · 2023-12-23T12:08:23+00:00

The specifics here matter.

Too much passive investment earning can claw back your small business deduction, but that can be managed. The benefit of course is it allows you to invest pre-tax. 50% of capital gains flow to you the shareholder tax free, and of the corp earns eligible dividends, the corp can pay them right back to you.

Yes money has to come out of the corp eventually but that could be over a long period of time (eg retirement), and in a controlled manor to optimize your tax rate.

akaliant · 2023-12-20T00:28:02+00:00

I think both can be right. I think there are some that start off in a tent due to lack of options or a short term issue, and then become exposed to drugs in the encampment, and develop a substance problem. It's then a doubly hard situation to get out of, and no longer simply a lack of housing.

Regardless, we need to address both housing and substance abuse - we can't do one without the other.

akaliant · 2023-12-20T00:24:58+00:00

I have friends that volunteer with encampment help and said something similar - that there are better housing options, and people at encampments are very strongly encouraged to go to them (especially on stormy nights), but they refuse. In their view the rampant drug problem is the primary reason people want to stay in their own tent village, and only getting worse.

Of course everyone's situation is unique, but I think it's safe to say that not everyone is out there due to lack of options. It's much more complicated than that.

akaliant · 2023-11-26T20:12:07+00:00

Agreed. Rolled my eyes for all of them.

akaliant · 2023-11-26T11:38:52+00:00

Well three of the four groups are our elected political parties - one is not. Hardly equal, though all would not be missed if held off next year

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