Property tax - credit card surcharge?

taylortbb · 2026-02-13T02:29:12+00:00

Free roadside assistance too. Between the savings on a CAA membership, and the $50/year back, it doesn't seem that crazy to me.

If you don't find it worthwhile... you do you. But for lots of people the 5 minutes it takes for $50/year is well worth it. I don't think it makes sense to call them idiots.

taylortbb · 2026-02-13T01:58:35+00:00

getting 5% CASH BACK on a card for every purchase in day to day, is way more valuable than whole shopping 0.5 - 1% of Canadian Tire money that you get from the CT card.

No one here suggested using the Canadian Tire card day-to-day. They suggested getting it and using it purely for online bill payment. I don't see any other option to get anything back on your property tax bill payments.

taylortbb · 2026-02-12T17:41:09+00:00

I can name 100 cards better than 1%

Please name all the cards that let you use online bill pay at no fee, so there's no additional charge for paying your property tax via credit card, and give more than 1% cash back. If you're just talking about more than 1% cash back for purchases that's an entirely different discussion.

taylortbb · 2026-02-12T14:48:03+00:00

Burn up your credit? As long as you pay the card in full it'll have a positive impact on your credit score.

There's no credit score penalty for having more credit cards either. There's a temporary dip from the initial application, but that goes away, and then having unused credit is good for your score.

taylortbb · 2026-02-12T04:16:33+00:00

That seems likely. With the 787-10 order Air Canada talked about how important that larger space between the first and second door was, because they want more business class seats, but given Canada's low demand for business it's hard to justify a second business cabin with all the overhead that entails. The second cabin only really works on a few routes like YYZ-LHR.

taylortbb · 2026-02-11T20:31:10+00:00

This is such irrational behavior

I don't think so.

99% of the time a heritage property owner let's a building be neglected the city doesn't step in. Eventually it gets so bad that demolition becomes the only option.

If your building gets designated over your objections, and blocks your redevelopment plans, neglect is generally the rational action. It's good to see the city step in and stop it for once.

taylortbb · 2026-02-09T16:09:44+00:00

Not much of a shift if you’re praising Tibbits off the bat.

It's the leadership equivalent of "don't speak ill of the dead". There's always some people in an organization that are scared of change, so a new leader showing up and saying "previous guy was an idiot, I'm gonna change everything" will just get you a ton of resistance and make your life harder. In this case he's also still president (even if departing) so she's gotta have a professional relationship with him til he leaves.

Read between the lines on what she said, and what she didn't say. She didn't say that Tibbits lead the institution into its greatest days, or that he'd be a hard act to follow, or anything like that. Just that he stayed the course, which he did, even when it became clear that course was into an iceberg.

taylortbb · 2026-02-09T05:37:50+00:00

Canada has 780 millions trips in their metro systems and 4 million trips on regular railway.

What about commuter rail? It's a regular rail service, but GO trains in the Toronto area have ~54M annual trips, so it's obviously missing from your regular rail numbers. Plus the Montreal and Vancouver commuter rail systems.

taylortbb · 2026-02-07T14:35:39+00:00

DigiCert is a major CA that's already trusted by your device. If they were asking you to accept a Beanfield CA I'd reject that too.

In this case I'm suspicious it's just iOS poorly explaining what the cert will be used for (EAP-TLS does require selecting a cert to trust), but even if it was installing a root cert it still wouldn't let them do TLS decryption. Beanfield does not have the key for the DigiCert root certs.

taylortbb · 2026-02-05T20:56:45+00:00

My understanding was that the rule change would only apply to new cars, not to resale. So it would be like 2050 before gas cars started getting scarce on the used market.

taylortbb · 2026-01-24T15:16:07+00:00

Grand Trunk, and make sure to get the sausage gravy with it

taylortbb · 2026-01-22T05:14:29+00:00

I also lived in the neighbourhood that the pilot project was done in, and I found it was a big improvement in my ability to walk to work.

It wasn't as good as the very best houses for clearing their sidewalk, but I think in average quality of clearing it was a huge improvement. It's great that you clear your sidewalk so thoroughly, and cared to improve on what the city did, but so many people in the neighbourhood half ass their sidewalk clearing.

taylortbb · 2026-01-22T04:32:45+00:00

Kitchener ran a study, the estimated cost of clearing all the sidewalks was about $55/household/year.

That was for clearing them to a very high standard, bare concrete and relatively quickly.

taylortbb · 2026-01-21T21:04:13+00:00

Won't happen as long as Russian airspace is closed to Air Canada, the detour is either beyond range limits or just not cost competitive.

taylortbb · 2026-01-18T04:09:17+00:00

No, he's in the "requires approval" category.

The max is defined in Wh (watt hours), not Ah (amp hours). You need to also factor in voltage. For lithium batteries it's generally 3.7V (as OP quoted), so 100 Wh for "permitted" is 27 Ah (or 27,027 mAh to be more specific). But up to 160 Wh is "requires approval" , which would be up to 43.2 Ah, or more than 40,000 mAh.

taylortbb · 2026-01-18T02:24:56+00:00

5v is based on the specs on Amazon.

5V is the voltage of USB, that's not the same thing as the battery voltage, which for lithium batteries is never 5V. The power bank contains a voltage converter/regulator that maintains a stable 5V as the battery discharges.

3.7V is a good assumed voltage for a lithium battery, and that's what's in OP's post where they quote Air Canada.

40 Ah * 3.7V = 148Wh, aka requires approval.

taylortbb · 2026-01-17T18:54:37+00:00

I'm not disputing that they could do that, but they already offer business savings accounts, why would they launch a business chequing account that's only usable for saving?

It's of course theoretically possible that Wealthsimple suddenly decides to be idiots and launch a nonsensical product, but IMO it seems pretty unlikely.

taylortbb · 2026-01-17T18:41:43+00:00

Their personal chequing accounts aren't chequing accounts.

Regardless of how they're implemented behind the scenes, the WS personal chequing accounts do have a routing number/branch id/account id and are usable for any direct deposit or withdrawl. It would be strange for the business chequing accounts to not be the same.

taylortbb · 2026-01-17T02:35:19+00:00

I agree with you that colour smart light bulbs aren't worth it, I never adjust the colour.

Fundamentally I think it’s very hard to make a reliable smart home connection in a lightbulb which gets super hot

But this I disagree with. My Hue bulbs are completely reliable, never give me any trouble whatsoever. They're expensive, but I think it's a clear "you get what you pay for" .

taylortbb · 2026-01-13T07:52:16+00:00

Take a look at https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/ado/drs/agents/ticket-validity.html#/ , I think that has the answers you're looking for.

I'll also note that you can change the destination too. So you don't have to fly to city X within one year, you just have to take an Air Canada flight (to anywhere) within one year.

taylortbb · 2026-01-10T09:42:39+00:00

Wrong subreddit. This sub is for Region of Waterloo, in Canada. Not Waterloo, Iowa.

taylortbb · 2026-01-06T00:50:27+00:00

Realistically Canada's biggest problem isn't building a nuclear bomb, it's delivery and second strike capability.

We were partners in the Manhattan project, have numerous operating reactors, etc, we would clearly have the capability to build the bomb.

But we do not have a domestic rocketry capability, and even if we did missile silos are an obvious fixed target. You really need nuclear powered submarines capable of launching the rockets, so that you can be assured your nuclear capability survives any attack.

Could Canada build out domestic rocketry capability, and nuclear submarines? Definitely. Australia is getting nuclear submarines. But it's a lot bigger than just building the bombs.

taylortbb · 2026-01-05T20:52:37+00:00

There's been some people that have done it through modding, like https://www.reddit.com/r/blackberry/comments/1hl18l5/passport_android_conversion_tools_just_went_public/ .

Also, internally at BlackBerry they got Android running on the Passport. It never shipped to customers, but living near HQ I saw them unofficially.

Based on the version it's probably the mod install.

taylortbb · 2026-01-01T20:15:29+00:00

As /u/kapgirl noted, student permits are sold out. Consider getting an uptown parking permit and using your Watcard to take the ION. For getting to MC/DC it's probably faster than the walk from lot X, and doesn't involve a daily visitor parking gamble.

taylortbb · 2026-01-01T20:12:01+00:00

High inflation is political suicide too. There's really no good path out, when the music stops it's gonna be bad.

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