u/deanat78

Bonjour!

My wife is disabled and has been looking for a specific handbike (like a bicycle, but you use your hands instead of legs) for a few years. We live in Toronto and haven't found anyone selling it.

I found someone selling this bike in La Guadeloupe, which is 1.5 hours away from Quebec City. We're trying to find someone who would be able to deliver this bike to us in Toronto. We can pay $250, which I know isn't a lot of money, so it would only make sense if you're already planning on driving to Toronto.

I tried looking for moving services online, but they quoted me almost $1000 which we cannot afford.

If someone can help, please message me :)

I'm interested in buying the Sun Ht-3 handbike. I would like to add a battery on it to make it electric. My local trike shop said they have no idea how to do that. Can anyone here provide some guidance?

I'm planning to come ski in either Chile or Argentina. Argentina is much much cheaper so I would prefer it, but I heard that the season hasn't been great there so far. If anyone is at Bariloche this week, can you let me know how the conditions are? If I'm planning on coming in 2 weeks, are conditions meant to improve?

Hola! I want to come ski at Bariloche for a week in mid August. Since it's a very popular resort, how long do you usually wait in lines for lifts on the mountain? Someone told me there is new infrastructure in the last couple of years so it's much much faster now than before, is that true?

I'm looking to go ski in Argentina or Chile some time in August. I'm extremely allergic to standing in line for more than 5 minutes (if it's once at the base but the rest of the day is good, I can survive that! )

I saw that Portillo fits my description, but it seems that they are fully booked in all their hotels for August. What other places would you suggest? Bariloche comes up often as a popular resort, but I worry that it means there are very long lines, is that true?

I just arrived to Crete and will be here till July 8. I don't have any specific plans, but I do love beaches, hiking, anything active. I don’t enjoy museums and cultural stuff :p

Usually I travel solo, but I heard that in Crete it's best to rent a car to explore, and 'll be bored driving distances on my own. So if anyone wants to partner up (or form a group), message me!

I just arrived to Crete and will be here till July 8. I don't have any specific plans, but I do love beaches, hiking, anything active. I don’t enjoy museums and cultural stuff :p

Usually I travel solo, but I heard that in Crete it's best to rent a car to explore, and 'll be bored driving distances on my own. So if anyone wants to partner up (or form a group), message me!

I live in a condo (Canada), and we don't have fire alarms often (once every few months). But when we do, they are dealt with poorly in my opinion, and I'd like to know if there are any regularions that target these issues.

Last week when we had a fire alarm at 2am, the security/concierge took more than 10 minutes to make their initial announcement. The announcement was full of static so it was extremely difficult to understand it. I wanted to know what's going on so I went down to concierge using the elevators, and they told me that all they said was that the alarm has been pulled and that we need to "follow protocol". Then there were absolutely no announcements given for about 45 minutes.

- First of all, I know elevators are meant to be disabled. Is that a legal requirement, did they mess up by not disabling them?

- Secondly, is it reasonable to wait such a long time, or are there requirements to make an announcement within some amount of time?

- I was shocked that they only told us to "follow protocol" rather than give actual clear instructions, such as "for now you can stay in your unit". Only saying "follow protocol" doesn't help anyone. Is that what they're meant to say, or are they meant to give directions?

I'm interested in actually understanding if this is the correct way for them to handle a fire alarm, because to me it seems terrible, but perhaps that's how it is.

I live in a condo, and we don't have fire alarms often (once every few months). But when we do, they are dealt with poorly in my opinion, and I'd like to know if there are any regularions that target these issues.

Last week when we had a fire alarm at 2am, the security/concierge took more than 10 minutes to make their initial announcement. The announcement was full of static so it was extremely difficult to understand it. I wanted to know what's going on so I went down to concierge using the elevators, and they told me that all they said was that the alarm has been pulled and that we need to "follow protocol". Then there were absolutely no announcements given for about 45 minutes.

- First of all, I know elevators are meant to be disabled. Is that a legal requirement, did they mess up by not disabling them?

- Secondly, is it reasonable to wait such a long time, or are there requirements to make an announcement within some amount of time?

- I was shocked that they only told us to "follow protocol" rather than give actual clear instructions, such as "for now you can stay in your unit". Only saying "follow protocol" doesn't help anyone. Is that what they're meant to say, or are they meant to give directions?

Please don't respond with anecdote, I'm interested in actually understanding if this is the correct way for them to handle a fire alarm, because to me it seems terrible, but perhaps that's how it is.

I live downtown TO and have a road bike with 28mm tires. So far my longest trips have been going to Vaughan (for family/friends functions). I want to do a longer 2-day trip.

Based on my research, it seems that Darlington Provincial Park or Niagara are fairly easy routes. Does anyone know if I can do them fully using a road bike? If so, is there an app or a map that shows the exact route to take?

There has been so much buzz in this city for the last few years about how 2026 summer will see such a massive influx of tourists, and we have to pour a ton of money to support all that and to make the world cup happen.

But I don't realistically see this happening. Toronto is only hosting six games, and they are going to be mostly the lowest tier games (only one game outside the group stage, and none of the group stage games are too interesting). I understand that most cities are only hosting several games, but we got stuck with all the low interest games.

On top of that, the ticket prices for these relatively uninteresting games is exorbitant.

This isn't comparable to when Vancouver hosted the winter olympics, because they hosted the ENTIRE event so clearly that brought in a ton more people.

I just don't see why tons of people would flock to Toronto to pay crazy amount of money for the chance to see one or two group stage games between low-ranked countries. There will be some visitors, but I don't foresee it being a spike in tourists that would make a difference from other years.

And I'm not complaining about this -- I'm happy that traffic won't be a mess like everyone is predicting :)

I'm curious if others tend to agree.

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EDIT: It's really funny to see how hostile and negative some redditors can be. I will never understand why in this sub so many people have such an inclination to put others down. There's been so many assumptions about me, it's really funny because all of them are entirely false. I won't go into them, but all the angry redditors here really could not have been more wrong :) All I was trying to say is that I don't foresee a huge tourist spike, and I'm just wondering if others agree or have a different analysis.

I'm going to use fake numbers for simplicity.

I live in Canada. 10 years ago I worked at a startup company that gave me some stock. They gave me 5000 shares. A few years later, when I wasn't with them anymore, but I still have the shares, they went public. At IPO, the share price was $20. So theoretically I had $100k on paper, but it was inaccessible to me because of the IPO lock-up period of 6 months. After 6 months, the share price fell to $12, so now my shares are worth $60k. At this point I started working with my broker to get my private shares onto my account, a process that took a few weeks. On the day that my shares finally hit my account on Questrade, the share price climbed up to $15, so I had $75k in my account. However, even on the very first day that the share came into my account, Questrade considered the purchase price of the share to be $12 (when I initiated the process), not $15, so it shows as if I already have a gain of $15k.

Fast forward to today. The stock crashed, the company is delisted, I lost everything. Now I have a lot of capital loss that I can claim. Questrade issues me a form T5008 and from Questrade's point of view, my loss is $60k, because that's the price they consider my "initial" price.

My question is: can I claim that my capital loss is actually $75k because that's how much it was worth on the moment it got into my account? Or can I claim $100k loss because that's how much I technically had on paper at IPO? Or do I have to go with Questrade's version of things?

I'm going to use fake numbers for simplicity.

I live in Canada. 10 years ago I worked at a startup company that gave me some stock. They gave me 5000 shares. A few years later, when I wasn't with them anymore, but I still have the shares, they went public. At IPO, the share price was $20. So theoretically I had $100k on paper, but it was inaccessible to me because of the IPO lock-up period of 6 months. After 6 months, the share price fell to $12, so now my shares are worth $60k. At this point I started working with my broker to get my private shares onto my account, a process that took a few weeks. On the day that my shares finally hit my account on Questrade, the share price climbed up to $15, so I had $75k in my account. However, even on the very first day that the share came into my account, Questrade considered the purchase price of the share to be $12 (when I initiated the process), not $15, so it shows as if I already have a gain of $15k.

Fast forward to today. The stock crashed, the company is delisted, I lost everything. Now I have a lot of capital loss that I can claim. Questrade issues me a form T5008 and from Questrade's point of view, my loss is $60k, because that's the price they consider my "initial" price.

My question is: can I claim that my capital loss is actually $75k because that's how much it was worth on the moment it got into my account? Or can I claim $100k loss because that's how much I technically had on paper at IPO? Or do I have to go with Questrade's version of things?