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Just a heads up that if you receive an email like this, it's phishing and you shouldn't provide any info. I got this July 31st and it made it through Gmail's spam and phishing filters. I opened the link in the email because I'm a participant, but I didn't click anything on the site itself when I noticed I was ultimately brought to a .ru domain.

Subject: Legal Notice - Loblaw/Weston Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement [READ CAREFULLY]

From: Canadian Bread Settlement tech@visaneo.com

Body:

>Version française suit plus bas

>You are receiving this email because you were identified as having claimed a 100 to 200$ Loblaw Card from the Packaged Bread Loblaw Card Program in 2008-2026 and/or as having registered with the lawyers handling this class action.

>LEGAL NOTICE AUTHORIZED BY THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE FOR ONTARIO

>Loblaw/Weston Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement

>Class actions have been certified/authorized by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Quebec on behalf of all individuals and businesses resident in Canada who purchased Packaged Bread alleging certain manufacturers and retailers engaged in anticompetitive conduct resulting in overcharges for Packaged Bread sold in Canada. The Courts have not yet made any decision on the merits of the claims or the defences in either of the actions.

>The Plaintiffs in the actions have entered into a national settlement with Loblaw Companies Limited, Loblaws Inc., George Weston Limited, Weston Foods (Canada) Inc., Weston Bakeries Limited, and Weston Food Distribution Inc. (collectively “Loblaw/Weston”) for $500 million ($96 million of which has already been paid) and their cooperation in pursuing the claims against the non-settling defendants in the continuing actions. In exchange, Settlement Class Members will give Loblaw/Weston a full release of the claims against them in the actions in relation to Packaged Bread.

>...

>If you are resident anywhere in Canada except Quebec and you purchased Packaged Bread between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2025, inclusive, and wish to participate in the Loblaw/Weston Settlement, you do not have to do anything to be included in the Ontario Settlement Class.

><rest omitted, including French version>

Notably, there is no urgency. The text makes it clear you're already participating if you bought the bread. The button looks like some kind of optional call to action.

Got an email from the party today. It mentions the two candidates and includes their bios.

>Nira Dookeran is an educator, community organizer and longtime Green campaigner who has spent much of the past 12 years building the Green movement from the grassroots. She has run as a Green candidate six times, managed campaigns, served on electoral district association executives and helped local Green organizations to build stronger teams.

>Mike Morrice is a longtime social entrepreneur, community organizer and former Green MP for Kitchener Centre. Before entering politics, he spent more than a decade helping businesses lower their costs and reduce their climate impact. As MP, he worked across party lines, secured funding for affordable housing and helped establish the Canada Disability Benefit.

It also mentions that they haven't made it into the final ballot yet. They have to recruit new party members and raise money.

>In order for these candidates to make it onto the final ballot of the GPC leadership race they must each recruit at least 200 new party members, including 50 Young Greens, and raise at least $15,000 in donations by September 30.

There are some timelines for becoming a member in order to vote and when the vote will happen.

>If you want to help choose our next party leader, make sure that your membership is active before October 14 at 11:59pm Pacific. You can check the status of your membership through this form on our website.

>Voting is scheduled to take place from November 2 to 13, with the results announced on November 14.

EBOX referral codes provide a one time $25 credit for both the code's owner and the person using the code. It is applied after the customer's first month of service passes, on the code owner's next bill and on the new customer's second bill.

This is the megathread for August 2026. Post your code in a single top level comment here with no other text and no formatting (e.g. post just "ABC123", not "ABC123" or "My code is ABC123, please use it!"), with no spaces before and after your code.

Please do not post your referral code anywhere else on the subreddit.

Thank you!

While experimenting with MapRoulette using open government data, I’ve created an Oakville challenge about adding buildings and their addresses. A layer created by another OSM contributor provides the addresses during mapping.

I invite folks who like to map buildings and addresses to check it out and help us complete tasks in it if they like.

Each task is designed to cover 10-20 houses or a few large institutional buildings/farms and take about 10 minutes.

https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/55881

I tested using a CPAP machine overnight with my Elite 30 V2 and I have a few questions about how it works and what I can expect going forward.

The CPAP uses AC electricity. I plugged it into the power station before going to bed with the power station charged to 100%, the AC inverter turned on, and AC ECO turned off.

AC ECO was turned off because the same test the night before resulted in the CPAP machine losing power shortly after going to bed because the AC inverter was automatically turned off, I'm assuming due to the sporadic, low AC draw from the CPAP machine.

The following screenshots show how in the morning, it was at 54% and that the SoC went down steadily throughout the night with the CPAP drawing a small amount of electricity sporadically.

https://preview.redd.it/jjzdceiv1uch1.jpg?width=788&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbcb9469aab20031cada4b762fd9033560f58422

https://preview.redd.it/zvskyivc2uch1.jpg?width=788&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09a9b19971258580b3cf1cd6f78ce8a4d0f5969d

1. Is my understanding correct that the CPAP draws a very small amount of power but the SoC decreases a lot because of the amount of power required to keep the power station itself and its AC inverter running overnight?
2. Furthermore, would it be true that if I hooked up a second CPAC machine to the AC (e.g. having one in each tent, with an outdoor-rated extension cable between the tents), that the additional draw would be negligible because the power station and AC inverter would not draw any additional power?

It's been about half a year I think since we've been doing referral codes this way and I'm curious if the community likes it done this way.

Each month, we create a new megathread. Each megathread is subject to a strict rule where every user is allowed to comment their code just once and they can't use formatting or pleas. The idea is that everybody's code should be on equal footing. Users are forbidden from posting their code anywhere else. No posts, no comments elsewhere, no flair, etc.

The megathread has very strict enforcement in place via a Reddit "Devvit" bot that locks comments that follow the rules and removes comments that break the rules. We do it this way, where everybody's comment is locked, to prevent discussions from forming under them. We want it to be just codes.

We have noticed a significant decrease in referral code spam, which we define as people creating posts with their code or commenting their code on unrelated discussions throughout the sub, since implementing this.

Please share your thoughts. Thanks!

View Poll

EBOX referral codes provide a one time $25 credit for both the code's owner and the person using the code. It is applied after the customer's first month of service passes, on the code owner's next bill and on the new customer's second bill.

This is the megathread for July 2026. Post your code in a single top level comment here with no other text and no formatting (e.g. post just "ABC123", not "ABC123" or "My code is ABC123, please use it!"), with no spaces before and after your code.

Please do not post your referral code anywhere else on the subreddit.

Thank you!

I'm looking for some guidance on whether the particular way I want to combine a power station and solar panel are safe and effective. But, I also want to learn how to figure these things out for myself for the future, based on the stats of power stations and panels.

I have an Elite 30 V2 power station (288 Wh). Its manual says I can charge via solar at up to 200 W. So I know I could get a 200 W panel for it. But I'm also interested in maximizing performance in low sun conditions like overcast. For example, I'm okay with having 400 W capacity providing me with 200 W of power during low sun conditions.

1. Can I get a 400 W panel and have it provide me with up to 200 W during low sun conditions, and then have it throttle to provide me with 200 W during optimal sun conditions?

2. Is it better to do this with one 400 W panel or two 200 W panels? If two panels, would I wire them in series or parallel?

3. What are the power station and panel stats that are relevant here? Volts? Amps?

OCAA (Ontario Clean Air Alliance), a non-profit that advocated for ending coal back when we used to burn it to produce electricity, and now fights for fighting climate change as cost effectively and cleanly as possible, maintains a comparison of the price of Ontario's various utility electricity options. It compares things like nuclear, wind, solar, and energy efficiency efforts.

They updated it for June 2026: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/options2026june10.pdf

The options:

Option	Price per kilowatt-hour (cents)
Energy Efficiency	3.1
New Solar & Wind: IESO 2026 contracts	8.9
New Onshore Wind Power + Storage: Mid-point cost estimate	11.4
OPG Price of Nuclear Power in 2026	12.4
New Solar Power + Storage: Mid-point cost estimate	15.5
New Offshore Wind: Mid-point cost estimate	15.5
OPG Price of Nuclear Power in 2027	21.4
New Gas-Fired Peaker Plant: Mid-point cost estimate	27.4
New Nuclear Reactor	31.0

"IESO" refers to the Independent Electricity System Operator.

"+ Storage" refers to the source being accompanied by enough storage (in Ontario, almost always batteries) to store the electricity for when it's needed according to current usage patterns. I believe it does not refer to storing the power for long periods of time (e.g. multiple cloudy days, or an entire season), and that would be more expensive.

EBOX referral codes provide a one time $25 credit for both the code's owner and the person using the code. It is applied after the customer's first month of service passes, on the code owner's next bill and on the new customer's second bill.

This is the megathread for June 2026. Post your code in a single top level comment here with no other text and no formatting (e.g. post just "ABC123", not "ABC123" or "My code is ABC123, please use it!"), with no spaces before and after your code.

Please do not post your referral code anywhere else on the subreddit.

Thank you!

Saw an ad on Reddit recently for a solar co-op based in the Kitchener area. Not posting who they are in particular because I don't want this to come across as astroturfing. I'm just someone enthusiastic about solar who found it interesting.

I was able to find other solar co-ops when googling too. Some offers shares and some offered bonds. Some allowed investments to be held in registered accounts, some didn't.

When I checked them out, I saw that there were basically two perspectives:

1. Investors sign up and earn money through preferred shares, where the returns come from profits the co-op makes helping commercial property owners install solar on their property
2. Commercial property owners sign up and go through some process to get solar on their property. I think they do it without having to pay up front costs (that comes from the capital from the investors).

I thought this idea made sense, but I was a bit leery because I know grid scale solar has gotten very cheap lately, so I was surprised to see there be investment potential in rooftop solar, even at the larger, more efficient commercial scale (compared to residential rooftop solar).

Apparently they used to make money through FIT and microFIT contacts. But, as I'm sure many of us at least in Ontario are aware, FIT doesn't exist anymore. The current government ended that. Now we have a different net metering scheme.

I liked the idea of becoming a member of one co-op in particular, since it only required a one time $10 payment for a membership share and didn't require me investing. So I did, and when I logged in, I saw a few red flags, like seeing how the messages from them to members posted on their internal portal seemed to stop around 2020 after seemingly being active before then. On the other hand, they are having an AGM early next month and they seem active on LinkedIn.

How does the community feel about co-ops like these in 2026, from the perspective of both investors and those installing solar through them? I'm curious about Ontario perspectives in particular.

This happened to a subreddit I was in, /r/hovr. I saw a post about some stock show up in my main feed.

It turns out someone "took over" (the words they used when I used the message mods feature) and made the subreddit, which was about a ridesharing platform called HOVR, into one about a stock that uses the HOVR ticker.

They also deleted all the old posts, including one I made where I asked other people in my city about their experience with the rideshare platform, and I was waiting for responses.

Received this in an email today. Folks should know the referral program is being boosted throughout the rest of the month.

>Share your code, get $50! Through May 31, get a $50 credit when a friend signs up using your referral code!