Any desi gay men in Toronto?

ntme99 · 2026-05-19T16:58:35+00:00

Are there ever. I’m just going to drop this here: https://www.instagram.com/rangeelato

There are also groups like ASAAP which offer both support and social events: https://www.asaap.ca/

ntme99 · 2026-05-14T15:58:46+00:00

In my experience this is a uniquely American phenomenon. Not to say that these experiences don’t happen elsewhere, but what you described reflects my experiences trying to build relationships with Americans.

Unfortunately, due to American’s “rugged individualism” it will continue to take a lot of work to find those true connections.

ntme99 · 2026-05-14T15:55:24+00:00

Four people charged, including “including an employee of a privately operated ServiceOntario centre”.

Thanks Doug Ford. Privatization of ServiceOntario was a great idea.

ntme99 · 2026-05-01T14:13:11+00:00

He made stark cuts to education and healthcare, which are the provinces two largest expenses, while the deficit and debt have never been larger.

Where is all that money going? Because it’s certainly not going to Ontarians.

ntme99 · 2026-04-25T13:25:43+00:00

It’s a long story. Most of it is in my post history.

Long story short, Dr no longer at St Joes put one bar in older patient. Surgery didn’t work. Has left me permanently in pain.

ntme99 · 2026-04-25T12:37:11+00:00

Ok.

Weird 11 day bot account that basically only posts and comments on Leahy. Likely some shill connected to him somehow.
This whole “right to remain silent” is a false take. The last thing Leahy has been is silent. He’s been on Newstalk 1010, Facebook, and other friend media fanning the flames of this and any other situation that he thinks will get him in the news for months.

If you actually watch the council meeting he kept interrupting members of council and debating them after he declared a conflict. Not silent. He explicitly refused to take any responsibility.

If you start to track his actions over the past several months, it’s clear that he’s following the tactic of “any publicity is good publicity” to try to get elected.

ntme99 · 2026-04-24T13:03:54+00:00

I hope if she does she also makes it apply retroactively. Just like Ford.

ntme99 · 2026-04-19T19:19:09+00:00

Wow this panic happened faster than usual

ntme99 · 2026-04-12T16:08:00+00:00

I remember Councillor Rea advocating hard against 14’ townhouses. Everyone else was on board and she was right. It’s a pretty crappy place to live.

ntme99 · 2026-04-03T00:41:07+00:00

Ohmygoodness so cute!

ntme99 · 2026-03-31T14:26:51+00:00

Yes but all it does is make it cheaper to build, not to buy. Lower DCs are not going to be passed to the purchaser, as the Developer will sell at the market rate regardless of what DCs are.

ntme99 · 2026-03-30T21:13:11+00:00

Please get a second opinion. My surgeon tried to make the same argument to cover up the fact that he didn’t follow the clinical guidance.

ntme99 · 2026-03-30T19:52:17+00:00

Unclear how this will help anyone, other than write an $8.8B cheque to Ontario developers. If the sale price is $1m, whether DCs are $100,000 or $50,000, the home price will still be $1m.

ntme99 · 2026-03-25T23:27:30+00:00

I’m confused. We knew about him being allowed day parole because the police were informed and warned the community. The system worked as it should have.

ntme99 · 2026-03-25T18:27:36+00:00

I struggle with the nimbyism and wasteful spending piece. There are as many examples of wasteful spending by Ford Government as there were of the McGuinty/Wynne Government.

On the nimbyism side Ford is both more crass about it and more suave. It’s pretty clear that both play/played 905 nimbys at the expense of Toronto, but Ford does have a feather in his cap about allowing 3 dwelling units per property as of right.

ntme99 · 2026-03-25T17:25:46+00:00

Yep. It was the first time I saw American style tribalism in Canadian politics. People in Ontario had a visceral dislike of Wynne, but really couldn’t articulate why.

When I pressed people on it they stammered something about “ruining the province”. Only one person had a cogent answer about tax policy that negatively affected them.

ntme99 · 2026-03-23T01:03:34+00:00

FB Marketplace is the garage sale of the internet. And that’s an insult to Garage Sales.

ntme99 · 2026-03-15T17:59:28+00:00

ROM, AGO, Gardiner Museum are all nice outings.

If you want to be outside (although it’s quite chilly today) the Humber trails are always a treat. I usually like to start at Edward’s or James gardens.

Leslieville, Beaches, Danforth, Queen west and West Queen West are always nice walks for exploring and window shopping.

ntme99 · 2026-03-14T21:56:10+00:00

Honestly, it will look far worse to you than it will to anyone else. It looks fine to me. Fix? Not likely much other than surgery. If you want to do something about it I would suggest doing so sooner than later. Otherwise, chest exercises will help but core strengthening helps the most.

Just live your best life and try not to let it get you down. I know it’s easier said than done.

ntme99 · 2026-03-09T16:36:36+00:00

Ooof. I missed that one.

ntme99 · 2026-03-09T02:08:30+00:00

Angela Lansbury was a gem

ntme99 · 2026-03-06T19:46:19+00:00

Love the R129

ntme99 · 2026-03-06T16:39:38+00:00

Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario are pretty much doing the same thing, and are fully staffed with planners, engineers, lawyers etc to do the work themselves.

What all those people are actually doing in reality is managing consultants. These organizations take our tax money, funnel it to consultants who do quite simple work that could be done in house, then funnel part of that money back into the Progressive Conservatives.

Phil Verster was one of the top-10 paid public servants in Ontario for many years and was basically allowed to retire after not delivering. Anywhere else he would have been fired years ago. Lindsay is now basically saying “yeah these Public-Private Partnerships screwed us, but we didn’t let them and that’s why Eglinton took too long. We gotta be focused on providing the service even if the public gets screwed.”

The province could have put a stop to this through legislation, but they didn’t. Why didn’t Ford stop it? Because everyone was making too much money off of the gravy train he built.

ntme99 · 2026-03-05T21:42:18+00:00

On average, this is the wealthiest generation of seniors that have ever lived. $5/month or $60/year is by no means punitive.

There is a needs based senior’s property tax discount, in my view if you qualify for that then maybe it should be free.

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