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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 13th 2026, 3:24 am
Replies: 5
Views: 765
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: McGill University

I knew McGill was a Scotsman (there's a bit of a clue in the name...) but hadn't appreciated he was an alumnus of Glasgow. That's a cool find. My better half is a McGill grad; there's an outside...
Forum: Canada
May 1st 2024, 2:59 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 2,812
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: UK Passport Renewal from Canada Lead Time

Quick. The online process is pretty efficient; ours took about 10-12 days. Submit everything (including photo taken with smartphone camera) online, send old passport via courier/express post, track...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 2nd 2024, 1:18 am
Replies: 23
Views: 3,598
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Canada's Mennonites

Mennonites are Anabaptist protestant Christians. There are many subdivisions within the Mennonite movement, broadly splitting Mennonite communities into Old-Order Mennonites (who eschew much modern...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 3rd 2023, 2:14 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,727
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Groceries

we do the same with Wellwise (the home healthcare bit of Shoppers) - regular supplies for daughter that we could probably find cheaper online if we looked hard enough, but the points tip the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2023, 1:36 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,988
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Parking Laws Are Strangling America

for a possibly more sensible take on the same subject, I can thoroughly recommend "Paved Paradise" by Henry Grabar.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634461/paved-paradise-by-henry-grabar/
I...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 28th 2023, 6:48 am
Replies: 2,356
Views: 261,017
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Home and garden projects

True, I may not have worded that very well - I did indeed mean "out of the end of the tap and not up through the valve stem." Before repacking & regreasing the string round the valve stem if it...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 28th 2023, 4:51 am
Replies: 2,356
Views: 261,017
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Home and garden projects

Yup, that's the badger.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 28th 2023, 4:50 am
Replies: 2,356
Views: 261,017
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Home and garden projects

...like this one, maybe
https://www.gardena.com/ca-en/products/watering/hose-fittings/twin-tap-connector-26-5-mm-g-3-4/900877001/
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 28th 2023, 4:43 am
Replies: 2,356
Views: 261,017
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Home and garden projects

potential alternative quick fix at least til after the weekend: get one of those quick-connect hose connector things from a garden or hardware supplier (Hozelock or Gardena are the big brands, I...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 23rd 2022, 1:22 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,036
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Toronto Homicides

heard the swarming story (though it wasn't yet categorized as such) on Sunday's local news. I guess the full extent of the incident (that there were so many perpetrators and they were so young)...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 6th 2022, 1:07 am
Replies: 93
Views: 7,544
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Pierre Poilievre

We could, or we could, alternatively, say that if it's not me who is pregnant then it's none of my f***ng business.


So why raise the issue in the first place? That seems a somewhat typically...
Forum: Canada
Sep 30th 2022, 5:05 am
Replies: 52
Views: 5,535
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: How different is Toronto to Ottawa

Bloody hell. It must be nearly halloween. The BE zombies are resurrecting themselves in anticipation...

Good to see some old well-worn names - the forum's been looking a bit tired recently.
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 5:34 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

so that'll be a no, then, to an example of a Dem legislator proposing revocation of 2A. Methinks I'm not the one who is living in a bubble, listening to what the Conservative media want you to think...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 5:15 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

Horseshit. No mainstream politician is seriously suggesting revoking the second amendment. Show us a quote, if you can, where a Democratic legislator has said they want to revoke 2A.

Poll after...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 5:11 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

wait, what? Who is deflecting? You have suggested, several times now, that I have this wrong and you know all the answers. Elucidate, why don't you? Or are you all about the deflection and not...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 4:58 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

Which issue - the exceptional and extraordinary number of children who are killed while in school? The fact that (some, but clearly not all) schools have armed response officers on campus and metal...
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 4:53 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

This. Very much this.

Pulaski seems to be confusing "what Pulaski thinks is happening in US politics" with "how US politics is fundamentally broken by single-issue lobbyists."
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 27th 2022, 2:22 am
Replies: 9,902
Views: 1,002,030
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: WTF in America

No. Ted Cruz, and others like him who take NRA money and parrot their talking points, are exactly the problem. If the GOP legislators, at all levels of government, would actually for a moment or two...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 18th 2022, 3:43 am
Replies: 9,778
Views: 803,250
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

My local chippy at uni - about 5 doors down from the house I lived in so heavily frequented by me and housemates - had jars of pickled eggs, gherkins and onions on the counter. A pickled egg with a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 18th 2022, 3:36 am
Replies: 9,778
Views: 803,250
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Could it have been the original Four Seasons Motor Hotel at Jarvis and Carlton? THere are some pictures here https://robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-first-four-seasons/
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 22nd 2022, 2:20 am
Replies: 8,202
Views: 700,099
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Let's talk about cars

Oh yes. I saw that post, and thought what a good-looking car that is. I'll add it to the list for Herself's consideration! :)
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 21st 2022, 7:20 am
Replies: 8,202
Views: 700,099
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Let's talk about cars

It's probably some sort of sacrilege on this thread, but I'm looking for opinions on fully-electric or plug-in hybrid cars. It's not long until middle child will be learning to drive. She will need a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 30th 2022, 8:55 am
Replies: 43
Views: 2,470
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Liberal NDP coalition

Not enough has been made of this comment in this thread. The biggest problem with Canadian politics right now isn't the Liberals or the NDP, nor even the Bloc, but the complete disarray of the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 22nd 2022, 2:15 am
Replies: 958
Views: 79,248
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: Masks

on masks, my offspring have reported that - despite the mandate being dropped from yesterday in Ontario schools - more than half the kids in the upper grades of elementary school (so roughly 10-13...
Forum: Canada
Mar 10th 2022, 5:39 am
Replies: 35
Views: 3,962
Posted By Oakvillian

Re: ArriveCAN

it's all a bit of a mess, isn't it? My OH arrived back at Pearson last week from a short trip, and was pulled for the random testing thing. That's a complete joke - apparently there are signs...
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