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keep trying, I tried loblaw/pc superstore delivery this morning...there were no del times available. Now it shows today in 2 hr or 27th all day. Same applied to costco del this morning...no stock...now it is showing. I didn’t want anything, I was just looking at del times out of interest.

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Its a locally made food called Red Dog Blue Kat.

I think I found a store I can get it from, they are doing curbside pick up a couple days a week this week instead of closing completely.

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Oo. Good stuff by the looks of that. I would get that for Dusty pusscat.

I hope you manage to get some supplies J.

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maybe time to mix that with a more readily available kibble mix, to enable a complete change of food without upsetting Charles tum

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Now you can see the value of a garden shed and couple of jugs of homemade cider. If only to self isolate from err indoors.

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We did pick up 2 small bags of kibble on Amazon as an emergency back up if need be, and I dig manage to score some made in New Zealand canned food which I think if mixed with kibble will entice her if need be, she wont starve she may just not love it.

I still find it odd how food that made from New Zealand meats and veggies, canned in New Zealand, then shipped to Canada has a lower retail price than a food produced in Canada, you would think it would be the opposite.

I find the dog food and treats that come from New Zealand are good quality too. The brand is K9 Naturals says made in Christchurch from whole New Zealand ingredients.

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If we had a house with a yard at least i could go outside and fidget in the yard, and keep busier and not stuck inside. A house also limits your contact with other people. I am to the point if I do venture out, I wear latex gloves, and using tooth picks to press the button on the elevator, and refusing to ride in the elevator with other people, which is also now what the strata is requesting as well.

Reading a first hand detailed account of a 42 year old man in the US who posted his experience (still in hospital being treated) this thing sounds awful if you end up not being a mild case, sounds like the flu on steroids and at least in his experience sounds like it tricks you and you think your getting better and than bam it gets even worse.

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Labatt like some other alcoholic beverage makers is going to produce hand sanitizer, they plan to produce 50,000 bottles initially. They will donate the bottles to various places depending on local need. (Not selling it)

https://globalnews.ca/news/6715882/l...PRKJJsZO3OTEuk

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Excellent! I found this one who look like they are still delivering, if you get desperate, delivery is free (they also have a sale on some items).. https://nupetfooddelivery.com/collec...blue-kat-dog-1

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Superstore website works they just have no slots for 10 days, but I do check through the day to see if any cancel. Save On had some for this week when I briefly was able to access their site, but it crashed on me when I tried to add to the cart, and now while I got back on they have no slots left for the week.

Seems Sunday maybe is the day they open slots and everyone goes on and crashes their site and a select few manage to secure one, dunno.

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like I said, this morning there were no slots for approx 14 days...late afternoon showing slots from 27th onwards. Of course that’s for my post code, but I was thinking maybe its because weekends are particularly busy.

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Maybe for the next lot. I had to go to the small animal vet today so I dropped into a café where they usually buy them and cleared the backlog. I also picked up a curry and went to Home Depot to return an unused box of hardwood flooring. After a week of being indoors reading the internet I was quite surprised that outside it's business as usual.

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That is absolutely true. Many of the people in the egg pool are quite recent arrivals from poor countries. It's routine for them to say "I couldn't believe what they sell as eggs here". Freshness is important, when I put the eggs in customers' hands they are, at worst, two days old, but there's a fundamental lack of quality to supermarket eggs such that home grown eggs are better even if they're past their best.

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Surely they can't really force that, since you are paying rent to live there. They want people to stay inside, then say don't do online shopping....can't have your cake and eat it too would be my response. Do they want people shipping things to PO boxes or the post office and then unnecessarily having to leave the house? I suppose you could argue that what people may be shopping for is not strictly necessary, but come on in this age of social distancing and staying home surely we can be allowed to indulge in SOME frivlolous spending?

Does your granddaughter go to private school? I'm not aware of online school beginning in this area. The latest we've heard is elementary and high school will still be returning on 6th April.
I am in the same boat scilly. I may take your advice and follow the daily briefing with the PM and anything related and then switch it off.

I am in this camp. Not a teenager anymore but 21 and am not really a follower of mainstream media, because it is always someone getting murdered or raped or some scandal and just negative energy overall. I am not diagnosed but I am sure I have some underlying anxiety and mental health issues. However during this crisis I have definitely chosen to follow CBC, BBC, etc. The most extreme form of social distancing i've taken is to not follow social media, because it's just become a toxic mess of coronavirus related BS. It is difficult to keep away from social media when you can't leave the house, but it was driving me mad.


There needs to be more of a conversation on how this is affecting people's mental health. It is definitely affecting mine as someone who thrives on regular social contact with others and social activity. The government needs to make supports available for people in this regard. Up until now I have been able to self-cope and haven't sought professional attention for my mental health but I fear the longer this pandemic goes on I may be adversely affected.

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Not my condo building, but some are refusing to accept non food/med packages. Not sure how they know what is in a package. :confused: We are owners, not renters. We pay condo fees towards this service, but I believe yes if the condo board approved it, it can and will be upheld.

Yes she goes to private school.

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Fair enough. I'll add that to my reasons to never wanting to live anywhere with an HOA. I'm not sure how they would know either, seems like a privacy violation for them to ask. However i'm sure you sign away all your rights to that when you agree to live there. I just don't think it promotes social distancing all that well as people will send their packages to friends houses or to post offices, promoting further spread of the virus. Or people will just go out to shops to get what they want.


Such an interesting conundrum for me - i'm young, single, and I don't want kids. I'd be perfect candidate to live in a condo. But can't deal with the rules and regulations and HOAs and being in that close proximity to other homeowners/renters - my car is loud(ish), I like loud music and need my space when I am at home.

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We ventured next door to the grocery store, but the line to get in was about 40 people in line and of course nobody is standing 6 feet from one another, so we came back home, I think standing in a line outside is too risky.

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it’s a bid to try to keep/limit the virus in the building by keeping the traffic down. Delivery drivers constantly dropping goods off...the security desk handling them...then people coming to collect them.

i think it is possible to choose a building to suit your needs. Many of the new very high 40/70+ floor buildings seem to have a high percentage of young people. Whether they are owners or tenants I have no idea.

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I hate condo living, drives me bonkers.

But I can't see anyway they can restrict deliveries to our building, no door person/no concierge/no security, seems something that would be easier to do in the larger upscale buildings though.

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I'm genuinely interested to hear where there might be a condo building with thick enough walls to drown out loud music and noise, so that other people wouldn't be bothered by me and I wouldn't be bothered by them, without an HOA. Because I genuinely like the idea of living in a smaller space with less to take care of, and paying fees to have maintenance taken care of, but don't think my personality is compatible with living in a shared space.

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Gawd, poor Mr Bevs. If people start flushing stuff like kitchen paper towel there will be an awful lot of backed up loos :( Let's hope people are sensible, or if they're not, that they realise they might be doing their business in a bucket in the near future. Plumbers shouldn't be asked to expose themselves to the risk of infection just because people are thoughtless/careless.

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It would have to be a building with super-duper, individual sound proofing for every apartment.

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If push comes to shove wrap a scarf or similar around your face, keep your hands in your pocket, and have a good wash of yourself and everything you've touched as soon as you get back indoors :thumbup:

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no idea. I believe there are condos mainly populated by party/student folk. Imagine they are pretty noisy.

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You know better than anyone how essential plumbers are though. If you have a business and the toilet doesn't work the health inspector can shut you down. If you have a rental property and the toilet doesn't work they can condemn it. If people are supposed to maintain distance from each other, they can't be going next door to use the bathroom. Remember the Plumber's Code.

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Anything wood frame would be out for sure.

Our neighbor plays pretty loud music, but can only hear it if your in the hallway, each unit is pretty sound proof, can't hear TV or talking or anything from the units on the side, but can hear the upstairs person banging around but can't hear actual music or TV, but he bowls or something up there and drives me bonkers, but overall pretty good sound proofing, but its hard to know until your moved into the building and living there to really know how it is.

But generally loud music isn't compatible with condo life, and kids really are not either, but sometimes parents have no other choice, but can find buildings that are mostly 0 or 1 bedroom and limits how many kids are in the building because not many move into 0/1 bed units have kids.

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AFAIK all modern high rise condos here are made of concrete...all walls are concrete apart from an odd internal wall. We don’t hear a thing...from next door.

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To be clear, i'm not that loud of a person. I'm not talking having a party in my apartment. But, I do like to listen to some music at night, and might have people over to have a few drinks, and don't want to have to be super mindful of the noise I make. On the same token, I don't want to hear my neighbour's dog barking through the wall.

Even living in suburbia, i've had problems with neighbours getting upset when there's more then 1 car in the driveway and 3 mates drinking beer and watching movies, having cops show up at 8pm for a noise complaint on a Friday. So when one has experiences like that it makes you think "I definitely wouldn't want to live in a condo"

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Something like this?



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Interesting, good info...I suppose reviews are likely available online for most buildings. Modern would definitely be a requirement for me.

Generally the nicer a building is probably filters out the amount of families with kids or pets...because if they can afford the nice condo they can probably also afford to live in a home more suited for family- or pet life. Especially outside the big cities Toronto and Van etc.

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High rise is the same here, but the low rise buildings still tend to be wood frame since its cheaper.

You must have some bored cops....lol

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it’s my experience that most condo units are pretty sound proof. In summer if you are on the balcony or have a balcony door open...then noise will travel.

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Yep, we definitely do.

I usually pass more then 1 speed trap on my way from my house to the edge of town to take the highway into the "big city" to go to school. On a ~3km stretch of road. I've seen them just sitting in the bar in full uniform shooting the shit with the barman.

Fair enough.

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https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...74716f9eff.jpg

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Canada has pulled out of the Olympics. Beginning to look like they will be cancelled.

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Vancouver Airport has a crosswind runway runway 13/31 its going to be used as a parking lot for Air Canada and Westjet as they begin parking aircraft.

One thing that seems to not be on the radar of politicians yet is the homeless and drug addicts of the DTES, how does one self isolate when one has no home?

Vancouver Park Board is going to close high use parking lots of various parks around the city, due to insufficient public compliance with social distancing protocol.

These small closures one by one is in my opinion part of a large shutting down coming soon.

https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/p...-response.aspx

Looks like most of the parks will remain open for now, just no parking which likely mean less people visiting.

Looks like they are starting with

• Kitsilano Beach
• Queen Elizabeth Park
• English Bay
• Jericho Beach
• Locarno Beach
• The Seawall
• Stanley Park
• VanDusen Botanical Gardens

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Yep, our neighbourhood is attached to a nice park and parking lot has been full every day i have taken walks through the park and it just keeps getting busier. Parents were fighting over whos kids got to use what play equipment to try and limit the amount of kids on one thing at a given time.

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I got laid off today, not unexpected, Grandad 94 in UK is in Hospital with Pneumonia, sore throat and a cough, is awaiting covid test results, is not allowed visitors.

my grill element on the oven has conked out and the washing machine is filling with water when it's off.

Early May visitors have cancelled, one half is stuck in the US, the other half at home in Germany, they are mid -late 70's, our late May visitors are looking into rebooking for next year.

I am going to buy some craft supplies and dog food tomorrow when I pick up my letter from work and then cocoon myself. Puppy will miss out on essential socialising and may cause issues in the future, hoping to at least be able to book her into a groomer in the next two weeks before everything is shut down.

OH is still working at the moment, his place of work laid off 21 on Friday.

stay safe peeps.

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re noise on apartments and condos ................

I read an interesting article a couple of weeks about how to reduce noise coming from adjacent apartment of from yours to them.

They seemed pretty simple and not too expensive. I think it might have reviewing a book, but can't now find it. Maybe you try googling for "ideas to reduce noise in apartments"

One suggestion was install cork on the walls ...... perhaps not for a renter bu could be for an owner.

Another was book cases from floor to ceiling all along a joint wall, then fill the shelves with books .... pick the books up cheaply at a thrift store.

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I'm really sorry to hear that you've been laid off Piff Poff. Lots of bad news for you in one hit, I'm glad you're getting some craft supplies to give you something nice to do.