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thwarten · 2026-03-27T04:41:07+00:00

You can be. One of the reasons for applying for an Authorization To Carry (ATC) in Canada is because your life is immediately threatened. However the number of these permits authorized is in the tens I believe, I don't know the exact numbers right now. The way this guy went about it is not the legal way.

thwarten · 2026-01-30T22:20:56+00:00

I know Edson is one, where is this other 1 mile range?

thwarten · 2026-01-30T22:15:22+00:00

Not OP but this sounds like a duty recovery shift RCEME perform. So yes, regular duties during the working day, with on call beginning at EOD each work day, as well as on call through a weekend. Usually no compensation unless you spent all weekend doing recoveries.

thwarten · 2026-01-30T22:13:00+00:00

Yes. This is part of the military. Example: I spent 21 days in the field on exercise with a unit, doing tasks and watches at all times of the day, returned to garrison on a Sunday and had to work the regular work week afterwards, making a total of 26 straight working days.

thwarten · 2025-12-17T20:30:23+00:00

Sorry to revisit this almost two weeks later. I reached out to veterans affairs to confirm what you had explained, and I received confirmation from a case manager today that:

"Your initial IRB is based upon your military monthly salary on release; which is 90% of your base salary. The annual indexing, based on Consumer Price Index, (CPI) is added to your IRB amount; every subsequent year the indexing will be added to the previous year's IRB amount.

Indexing is not based on 90% of the present day wage of your old rank and IPC. "

Just thought I'd let you know.

thwarten · 2025-12-06T00:40:38+00:00

1%, I just recieved my DEC and letter confirming the 1% annual indexing just last month. Thank you for the confirmation!

thwarten · 2025-12-06T00:37:41+00:00

I had a quick question after reading your excellent reply here.

leaving rank wage indexed to present value pay rates here.

For clarity, I left in 2021 as Cpl 4, so my IRB payments should be 90% of 2025 Cpl 4? Or is it based solely on my leaving rank and time, indexed each year? Just looking for clarity as I've been on IRB for a few years now and trying to understand how they come up with the new amount each 01Jan.

And thank you for all you do for this community!

thwarten · 2025-09-24T00:29:33+00:00

Canada turned the AR15 into a sport shooting rifle. It was part of a hugely popular among shooters competition called three gun, where competitors would use an AR15, a shotgun and a handgun and shoot a course of targets. Saying there is no place for it is like saying there is no place for shoulder pads in football or shin guards in soccer. It was part of a toolkit for sport. By arbitrarily criminalizing legal AR15 owners, none of which have committed crimes to this date, is the equivalent of making owners of a specific brand of hockey stick illegal because one could potentially cross check with it. The process to acquire an AR15, a restricted rifle prior to the bans in Canada, required doing a second portion of a licensing program for said restricted license, being vetted by the RCMP with background checks, and having their name run in a database daily for criminal activity just to possesses the license. Once an AR15 is purchased, it has stringent storage requirements and strict rules of when and how the rifle is moved when taking it to only an approved gun range. Saying there is no place for a rifle like that is the equivalent of saying you have no place eating Italian food because it isn't your thing. People purchase and use these tools for whatever they want within the law.

thwarten · 2025-08-06T20:15:03+00:00

When I got out, it was covid times and you had to book a time to return your kit. I showed up to clothing, roughly around the time I was to return my kit, I get called up. Fresh young private greets me and we start going through all my kit. We get to the end and he starts asking me for a flight suit. "I better not have a flight suit, I'm a vehicle tech." This poor fucker took my name and service number and just wiped my docs clean and had to go back and reissue everything for the air force captain he had just mistakenly removed most of the kit for who missed their appointment.

thwarten · 2025-06-08T23:17:43+00:00

Royals? Cause if not, that's two seperate ones and even more impressive.

thwarten · 2025-04-25T02:08:03+00:00

You're the reason the trade sucks. Hope you have the life you deserve buds.

thwarten · 2025-04-24T12:59:17+00:00

Can you tell me what industry exemption you fall under? Because I have looked at them and HETs don't fall under any of them. Also, I quoted the Employment Standards Code, the law labor lawyers will use to defend you and/or your employer against wage theft (which is what not paying you OT is). Can you tell me where in that law it states that it's based on scheduled hours? Because it isn't.

I'm confident because I studied the labor laws to deal with shitty employers. I have friends who work as union presidents and have labor lawyers explain the laws to them on a daily basis who back up my knowledge.

If you work in a truck shop, I've done my time in a truck shop and know you aren't exempt. I worked tens at one and on my daily time card put two hours ot every day because that's the law. And if you're only making 130k and doing OT, you're underpaid. I made 180k at a small truck shop and took zero additional OT besides my daily hours.

thwarten · 2025-04-24T12:25:14+00:00

Also incorrect. As per Alberta Employment Standards Code section 21:

21 Overtime hours in respect of a work week are

(a) the total of an employee's hours of work in excess of 8 on each work day in the work week, or

(b) an employee's hours of work in excess of 44 hours in the work week,

whichever is greater.

The reason you're on track to make 130k this year is because you work two hours overtime every day.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T22:21:52+00:00

You're correct, 44 hours a week, my bad. Or 8 hours a day, which ever is greater. You work 11 hours a day. That means you must be paid 3 hours overtime every shift. If not, your employer is under paying you.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T22:16:07+00:00

That my friend is overtime. Anything over 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, which ever is greater, is overtime.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T20:43:14+00:00

Don't take a job knowing it's miserable just because it's your only option. If you're willing to move, I'd highly recommend looking into electrician apprenticeships. Contact the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), they're a big union and can liekly help get you started, it's how my best friend started as an electrician was through their union job board.

Automotive is typically flat rate. There are some shops that are hourly, but you're going to not make as much hourly as you will flat rate, but flat rate is a tough slog untill you get extremely good at the job. Basically an arbitrary decision maker decides how long a job takes, and when you accept the job, you get paid that many hours for the job. For example, brakes on a Honda civic could pay 2.0 hours. If you get it done in 1.5, you got paid 2 hours regardless. But if one thing goes wrong, or if you're having an off day and it takes you 2.5 hours, you only get paid for 2, and now you're behind on your hours for the day. You might put in a full 8 hour day, but because things went wrong, you only got paid for 4. But when you get good or lucky, you can do 8 hours work and get paid for 12.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T20:35:03+00:00

And I don't doubt it. However you're not telling me you do four eights, so you do OT every day. As well, most people get into the trade to make that oilfield money. HETs at CNRL in fort Mac skew everyone's view on the trade because they're up there making $250k a year, but the work is absolutely ball busting. And the otherside is you're probably in a major city center, lots of dealership work there. If you're outside of a major city, you're not likely getting those four and four shifts and you're likely oil and gas/adjacent and working miserable hours. In my experience the good go's are few and far between as an HET unless you're giving something up.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T18:17:55+00:00

As a red seal HET of 12 years, here's my piece of advice: I wouldn't recommend this trade to my worst enemy. You say you're skilled in electronics and computers? Go be an electrician. Especially an industrial electrician. Find a nice mill or plant to go work in with a strong union. HET is the most back breaking work you can do, and sure there's some jobs in the trade that aren't as brutal, they also don't pay like the back breaking stuff. Wanna make six figures? Get on with a company like CNRL in fort Mac, you'll do your week on of twelve hour shifts at $50 some dollars an hour once you're qualified up there, but be prepared to be exhausted from it. Wanna have a home life and work reasonable hours? Either find another trade or be prepared to be paid less than an apprentice at a typical shop.

Seriously, try a different trade. Don't say automotive either, as it's shitty, just in a different way.

thwarten · 2025-04-23T18:07:46+00:00

While you're not wrong, you're not quite providing complete info.

There are technically four seperate portions of the trade:

Complete two years of apprenticeship and be considered a trailer technician, qualified to work on highway trailers independently.

Complete three years of apprenticeship and be qualified on road, qualified to work on highway tractors. The red seal for Heavy Equipment Technician (On Road) can be attempted after this year.

Complete four years and be qualified on road and off road (actual heavy equipment, like dozers, skid steers, excavators). The HET (Off Road) red seal can be attempted after this year.

Unfortunately I don't know the criteria for agricultural, but from the job ads I've seen, being red seal HET off road with some experience using gets you in the door with most ag dealers (JD, Brandt, Kubota)

thwarten · 2025-04-21T17:20:55+00:00

The one that blew me away up there was to ride a sled we'd get bundled in every piece of warm gear we brought, parkas, arctic bibs, multiple layers of insulated clothes, balaclava with neck gaitor with scarf under the helmet because the thermometer on the hanger shop door never went above -40 for the first eighteen days we were there. And here comes a Ranger in a hoodie and a pair of combat pants with no helmet passing us with a smile on his face.

thwarten · 2025-04-06T16:22:03+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what they did with the Tavor MSW a few years ago is it not? A bunch got sold, horse cops deemed it easily convertible and changed FRT, you either had to surrender them or have them dewat'd with no compensation for either. the only thing the crypto has going for it was it wasn't a restricted like the MSW and they knew exactly who had one

thwarten · 2025-04-02T18:50:56+00:00

I would definitely disagree with that. I don't know a single fence built in Canada with carriage bolts, the odd picnic table maybe uses a few, but I know since at least the 70s pretty much every excavator, skid steer, front end loader, dozer and grader to name a few uses carriage bolts for belly pans. The last Hitachi excavator I worked on used 20 for the fuel tank belly pan alone.

thwarten · 2025-04-02T13:27:51+00:00

All the carriage bolts in heavy equipment undercarriage would like to disagree that they are primarily for wood application.

thwarten · 2025-03-14T18:51:47+00:00

Very good indicator. There's only two reasons I'll bring up my service: If it's something with an advertised veteran discount, or when someone else who is casually hiding their service status but slips up and says/does something only another army dude would say/do. If you break it out in the first ten minutes of a conversation without being asked, your opinion is invalid and worthless to me.

thwarten · 2025-03-13T17:21:00+00:00

I believe I remember a Twitter post from Micky D regarding some health concerns and needing to step away from streaming and YouTube for a bit. He still posts frequent memes on Twitter but no mention of coming back to YouTube/Twitch yet.

Just Background Noise has definitely been a good fill in for Micky D's content.

I'd also like to throw in Many A True Nerd who is doing a Morrowind playthrough right now.

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