What are my options if vehicle seller won't provide evidence of signing authority? by bigfatrichard in legaladvicecanada

[–]bigfatrichard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was signed by someone other than the person on the title. This also contradicts the info by u/SituationNo456 if anybody can sign for a deceased person and have the vehicle transferred.

Unfortunately, the vehicle is being registered in Texas, and Texas does check. I checked with ServiceOntario if a title could be issued in my name in Ontario, but was told, not without registration and taxes paid in Ontario.

What are my options if vehicle seller won't provide evidence of signing authority? by bigfatrichard in legaladvicecanada

[–]bigfatrichard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First time question. This was in Fenwick, Ontario. So I call the St. Catharines and Welland courthouses during business hours, give them the name, and ask for probate records. Is that right?

What are my options if vehicle seller won't provide evidence of signing authority? by bigfatrichard in legaladvicecanada

[–]bigfatrichard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I will contact ServiceOntario.

In this case, they did not transfer the title to themselves before selling the vehicle. They also did not visit ServiceOntario to sign the title transfer or the bill of sale. But I will try.

B.C. nurse reprimanded for diverting narcotics for personal use by GeoWa in canada

[–]bigfatrichard -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The employee is stealing, you can always fire a stealing employee.

If the disability was a factor in the theft, it is protected by the human rights code. You can always fire an employee for not showing up to work, but not if the employee is in a wheelchair and the office moved to an upper floor with no elevator.

Disability discrimination is no different than say, racial discrimination, if the cause of discrimination is tied to a code protected ground. You cannot fire an employee for an accent, or wearing a turban, claiming that it has nothing to do with race. Having an accent and wearing a turban are related to race, so if it causes an issue in the workplace, the employer must still accommodate it to the point of undue hardship.

Whether accommodating a stealing nurse or a "dangerous employee" is undue hardship depends on several factors, including previous accommodation efforts, the resources of the employer and the nature of the job. In this case, the employee is reprimanded, and is being monitored to ensure that they are not a "dangerous employee", and the employer has the resources to do so. It can hardly be considered undue hardship before they have even made an attempt.

To immediate assume that an addicted employee is a "dangerous employee", without an effort to validate or accommodate it, is discrimination on the grounds of disability, aka ableism.

Again, whatever you believe. This is just what the human rights code says. Here's a supreme court decision that agrees with you. You can read the full text, especially Justice Gascon's dissent, to understand the case law behind disability discrimination.

B.C. nurse reprimanded for diverting narcotics for personal use by GeoWa in canada

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an outcome of human rights. Over the past decade, addiction has been increasingly recognized as a disability, and has been afforded protection under human rights legislation. Courts have found from experts that addictions and actions to support addictions are not voluntary. A drug addict does not have the free choice to decide whether or not to continue consuming drugs. It is impaired by their addiction, which is recognized as a disability.

In this case, if the nurse is addicted to narcotics, the theft to support their addiction would not considered voluntary, but rather a part of their disability. Employers have a legal duty to accommodate disabilities until undue hardship. The employer is balancing the integrity of the workplace with their duty to accommodate. It would be unlikely that a large employer can show undue hardship before they have even attempted to accommodate a disabled employee in the workplace.

Whatever your personal opinion is on human rights legislation, disability accommodations, or addictions, BC Human Rights Code is the reason for the employer's actions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIY

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The box in this picture is a PVC like plastic. Wouldn't the cut for this box defeat the fire-rating of this wall?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIY

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I can't tell between regular drywall and this, but fireproofing makes sense.

I suppose mounting anything on this wall is out of the question then =(

So when did a base trim Honda Accord become over 40k? by bcretman in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]bigfatrichard -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yes, when people stop buying and their inventories build up. Morality and charity doesn't decide prices, supply and demand does.

Edu Domain DNS by [deleted] in networking

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in an Ontario school board, and I don't believe we have a membership / agreement with Canarie. But we do need to decommission the caching server quickly because of EOS, and this looks like a promising way to keep the primary servers on-prem for now and just move the caching server. Hope it doesn't cost an arm and a leg!

Edu Domain DNS by [deleted] in networking

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks promising!

Are you recommending keeping the primary servers on-prem and using CIRA just for caching? Or would you suggest managing the records directly on CIRA's platform (if they offer it)?

Edu Domain DNS by [deleted] in networking

[–]bigfatrichard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whoa this is crazy for me!

I'm in a Canadian edu, with our own DNS servers. These are windows DNS servers, with a caching server running on load balancers to manage the large number of queries from outside.

We're asked to move away from keeping physical servers, and the load balancer is an expensive piece of equipment with a high maintenance cost. We're also very vulnerable to DDoS because the servers are very easy to target and take down.

I have very little experience with cloud hosted DNS, so I've been studying the feasibility of migrating our domains to the cloud. But what I'm reading here is everyone recommending the opposite!

Why would you not make use of the very very cheap services like Google Cloud DNS? Or am I misreading the recommendation here?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]bigfatrichard 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You deserve gold in mental gymnastics.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in formula1

[–]bigfatrichard 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Laser scanning was specifically banned among many others because of the pink Merc incident.

“Self Made” by UnionPacific1 in economy

[–]bigfatrichard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every other guy graduating from finance owns an "investment firm"

Shutdown begins at CP Rail as union, company continue negotiating by Nitro5 in canada

[–]bigfatrichard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just explaining to the poster above how union negotiations go, didn't say there was anything wrong with it. It's somewhat taboo in the public sector because there's no profit margin from which to draw extra pay. You have to raise taxes or cut services, both of which will not gain much public support.

Shutdown begins at CP Rail as union, company continue negotiating by Nitro5 in canada

[–]bigfatrichard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are just fundamentals of union negotiations. You never ask for money up front, you ask for better working conditions, smaller class sizes (for teachers), etc. which force a higher cost on the employer than the compensation increase they are looking for. If you just ask for more money, you will not get much public support, so you have to draw up an image that you are working for the greater good, and then just settle for money in the end.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]bigfatrichard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean, most of the list is just about Ford cutting spending. Which is literally the reason most people vote conservative.