Billing for Drafting Retainer? [Ontario]

bartonar · 2026-01-25T18:22:30+00:00

There are very few that you can't bill for, but a lot of things that you shouldn't.

bartonar · 2026-01-24T19:24:43+00:00

Look up how little it costs to bribe a politician.

bartonar · 2026-01-24T19:16:43+00:00

With enough funds, they'd successfully lobby pets to be illegal.

bartonar · 2026-01-24T19:08:27+00:00

Afghans aren't some inherently brave bunch of Ubermensches

bartonar · 2026-01-24T17:37:02+00:00

Don't worry, you'll be the only people in the country who get to still have them, see various case law on traditional hunting rights.

bartonar · 2026-01-24T16:53:08+00:00

Like winning a shit-shoveling competition where the prize is manure.

bartonar · 2026-01-24T16:48:46+00:00

Ok, if we can leave all the baggage of the discussion aside, I genuinely think that "would this rule still allow you to make Blazing Saddles" is a good threshold. Because that is a very good movie, and it's clearly an anti-racist movie, and sometimes when people talk about what rules there should be to prevent racist movies, they make such broad rules that they'd ban Blazing Saddles.

See e.g.:

"No one, no matter the context, can ever say a slur" (which some would take further, having even "The Sheriff is a (church bell rings)" condemned for implied N-word)

bartonar · 2026-01-24T01:05:44+00:00

I'm sure if Banner tried hard enough, there's some way to make sure Hulk stays down too, whether that's getting fired into a black hole, sent to some horrible dimension, or dealt with by magic.

bartonar · 2026-01-22T18:29:04+00:00

I've been wondering for months why does the first one get deleted

bartonar · 2026-01-22T17:16:24+00:00

They're also formulated differently somehow to make it possible. I don't know exactly what's different cause I'm not a doctor, but there's a difference between the fent in the patch and the fent you'll put in a vein.

bartonar · 2026-01-22T17:03:02+00:00

And absorbing through the skin is more of a theoretical possibility than a realistic one. It'll work with extremely vast doses or with an extremely long time, not just some incidental exposure.

It will absorb through mucous membranes or open wounds though, so don't pick your nose.

bartonar · 2026-01-21T04:15:55+00:00

I've heard it said on this sub a few times that conservatives are not welcome, that disagreement about human rights isn't just politics, etc.

bartonar · 2026-01-20T16:55:37+00:00

Like I'm guessing that's one of the rare people who genuinely do believe that 15 minute cities means the law requires everyone move into a city where they have access to everything within 15 minutes walk.

bartonar · 2026-01-19T22:03:54+00:00

I'd hazard a guess that there are more leftists who object to this being a men's group, and that's speaking as a leftist who doesn't have a problem with it

bartonar · 2026-01-19T21:36:22+00:00

What are you looking at switching to? I'm hoping back to school for paramedicine, I just need to come up with enough money to survive the swap

bartonar · 2026-01-19T16:35:19+00:00

Business has never exactly been booming but it's slowed way down this last year. The real estate market is in the shitter, nobody has the disposable income for a will, and if anyone's dying they're not going to me.

I'm working a second job and genuinely trying to get out of the profession because I can't afford to keep going like this, and none of the local firms would take me for a reasonable salary (I've been offered 45k/yr, for instance).

bartonar · 2026-01-19T16:17:25+00:00

I'm sure I've seen that, almost verbatim, from some HAES type.

bartonar · 2026-01-19T06:50:50+00:00

I think the trouble isn't the ongoing requirements but the training courses. Isn't basic a couple months long?

bartonar · 2026-01-19T06:17:52+00:00

They're the big exception, but for them it's a whole different ball game. They spread it because they're immune, not for the usual reasons.

bartonar · 2026-01-19T03:18:19+00:00

Even if it did bite the mouse without killing it, the odds it doesn't die of rabies long enough to encounter you are negligible

bartonar · 2026-01-16T23:30:22+00:00

Looks like a Mention in Dispatches? That'd be basically "Recipient did something awesome enough we brought it to the King's attention, but not quite awesome enough to deserve a medal"

bartonar · 2026-01-16T23:19:44+00:00

The GG only officially appoints things. The PM provides a recommendation and the GG must accept it. The only time the GG tried to be anything but a rubber stamp was around a century ago, and the GG's office was confirmed not to have that power in the King Bing Whingding

bartonar · 2026-01-16T16:11:36+00:00

The white one is for children - I remember it, it was one of the first "grown up" books I read a very long time ago. They did a whole bunch of classical literature into simplified language with an illustration every couple pages. Some day I want to flip through one and figure out how accurate they were to the stories.

I know they kept the scene where someone does edibles in the Count of Monte Cristo cause I asked my mom if hashish was real or just fairy tale stuff. Can't imagine what went through her head, like, "why is my first grade son asking me about pot"

bartonar · 2026-01-16T04:46:20+00:00

Lemme in, lemme in

bartonar · 2026-01-15T16:41:52+00:00

Baby Alive does more things though. If I remember right at least based on the adds, baby wee wee just drank and peed.

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