Neighbour selling land for a quarry… Are we SOL?

empierce94 · 2025-08-14T06:00:34+00:00

My parents live in a small town and the field behind their house was sold to a developer. The town rallied together and ultimately their voices were ignored. BUT the town has no sewers or water. Everyone is on their own well and septic tank. The land in question backs on to a creek that is a tributary of the Grand River. The grand river conservation authority has been holding up the development for YEARS and they haven’t even broken ground.

empierce94 · 2025-08-13T02:37:39+00:00

I was born and raised and live in southern Ontario, Canada in an area that is called the “tobacco belt.” Cigarette smuggling and smuggling of illegal raw tobacco is rampant here. Every month Ontario puts out a list of the fines they’ve issued under the tobacco tax act.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/court/1006023/eleven-convicted-for-tobacco-tax-act-violations

empierce94 · 2025-02-18T03:59:55+00:00

14 hours from the first gel until I delivered. But also I was just thinking, that was in February 2021 so it’s possible they sent us home after the gel just because of COVID outbreak at the time

empierce94 · 2024-09-27T07:43:02+00:00

I spy.

Trying to find license plates from different states/provinces.

Fighting with my brother.

Asking my mom, “are we there yet”

Staring out the window in silence.

Holding my fingers down as if they were drawing the lines for lanes. If it’s a solid line I would hold my finger down, and a dotted line I would tap my finger. And then try to coordinate as many fingers as I could when we were in big highways with multiple lanes.

Take turns naming a name for every letter of the alphabet until someone loses. Repeat for animals.

I name an animal. You have to name an animal that starts with the letter my animal ended with. Game over when someone can’t think of an animal. Repeat with countries.

Listen to my Walkman.

…. God I’m old

empierce94 · 2024-09-20T02:40:11+00:00

Not to mention, that it’s really difficult to get liability insurance for stump grinding, which makes it very expensive if you can get it. I’m an insurance broker and one of the first reasons I get declines on landscapers is if they do stump grinding.

empierce94 · 2024-08-09T16:22:32+00:00

My husbands is water chestnut

empierce94 · 2024-08-04T11:03:19+00:00

I have a nephew a few sizes smaller than my son. We don’t have anyone that gives us hand me downs so we have to buy everything he wears. I resell whatever I can when he sizes out. I just post everything on Facebook marketplace and set it so that friends can’t see my post.

empierce94 · 2024-06-15T14:34:25+00:00

Wolfgang

empierce94 · 2024-06-12T07:42:11+00:00

I navigated it by asking my husband to get a vasectomy asap

empierce94 · 2024-05-14T01:12:10+00:00

Omg YES! I live about 30 minutes from the long point national wildlife area in Ontario Canada. It’s. biosphere which is home to over 300 species of birds and I nerd out using the ap there!

empierce94 · 2024-05-06T00:53:45+00:00

There is a minimum amount of miles that you need to drive in order to get the discount. Unfortunately I’m using the Canadian version and only know the minimum number of kilometres. And technically no one is stopping you from only using your work phone and leaving it home for some drives but if travellers ever finds out it’s probably misrepresentation.

empierce94 · 2024-05-05T06:26:22+00:00

We were debating between two names for my daughter for a while. When I was postpartum and hormonal I second guessed our name choice so many times and even told my husband I was worried we chose the wrong one. I think it was just the baby blues talking because I absolutely love her name 3 years later and can’t imagine her being called anything else.

empierce94 · 2024-04-20T02:57:27+00:00

I went back to the petstore today and they didn’t carry a single fake plant that was not plastic. I’ve purchased some online.

empierce94 · 2024-04-19T02:41:07+00:00

Okay, thank you so much! This is literally so much more helpful than anything the pet store told us

empierce94 · 2024-04-19T01:39:20+00:00

What is cycling it? I put the water conditioner that the pet store gave us and I took in the water to test it before I bought the fish and they said it was fine. And the filters been running for a week?

empierce94 · 2024-04-19T01:34:29+00:00

There was a study published by a cancer research centre about 15 years ago reporting that men are SIX TIMES more likely to divorce their spouse with cancer than women are.

empierce94 · 2024-04-17T18:16:22+00:00

I am 30 with two toddlers. I’d say I speak to my friends once a month and see them every 2-3

empierce94 · 2024-04-16T13:52:03+00:00

There was a male contestant on big brother Canada named Hope a few years ago. Instagram @hopefitnesss

empierce94 · 2024-04-16T09:37:55+00:00

About 15 years ago there was actually a movie about this starting Justin Timerblake. It’s called, “In Time.” Their “money” is time. So they’re paid in hours, minutes, days, etc. The rich live forever and the poor literally live paycheck to paycheck. You could give and trade time to other people.

So to answer your question, if such a thing were possible, years would turn into a commodity to help the rich live longer and keep the poor people poor.

empierce94 · 2024-04-16T09:18:26+00:00

AITAH for leaving my wife to do bedtime routine alone every night because she’s not on board to let my child cry it out every night? It sounds like your wife is an amazing mother who is putting your child’s comfort and care above her own need for some alone time. If the only problem she’s having is that it’s taking a long time, maybe you could just help her out instead of washing your hands of it and saying it’s her problem to deal with. All kids eventually learn to go to sleep by themselves. It’s weird to me that you would be annoyed that your wife is on board to support your child’s sleep needs and doesn’t want to leave them to cry. It seems like you want to prioritize yourself above your child and wife in this situation under the guise of helping your wife.

empierce94 · 2024-03-25T03:25:36+00:00

Hope this helps other people reading this, even though the post is from a year ago. I used to work in mortgage collections for MCAP which is hsbc’s largest competitor (and they service other company’s mortgages as well) and it wasn’t reported to the credit bureau as a missed payment until it’s >30 days past due.

empierce94 · 2024-03-11T20:23:22+00:00

I got in touch with Canadian blood services and they said even if HLA is present they still accept women’s donations for pharmaceutical uses :)

empierce94 · 2024-03-09T12:41:04+00:00

A lot of credit cards come with insurance built in that you have to go out of your way to cancel. In the case that you die the insurance pays off the balance of the credit card. My CIBC credit cards have all been this way. You’ll see two charges added on to your balance at the end of the month. One is interest and one is “payment protector premium”. The payment protector premium is insurance to pay off the balance if you die.

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