r/oakville

Hello, I’m new to Canada. Is there a Trader Joe’s equivalent super market in Ontario that you can recommend? I liked being able to pickup snacks in Trader Joe’s without having to worry about the unnecessary and unethical ingredients on the products. The prices were unmatched too. Plus if it’s near areas like Mississauga, Oakville, or Burlington.

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Hi I stay here for the summer and im looking for friends. im a 20 yr old girl and i honestly j want more friends. all my friends are in different towns due to university and im hella lonely. i really like edm and im also looking for other edm lovers. i love fashion, cats, jewlery, sewing and all that type of stuff. ill go thrifting with you!! if u are also 20 plz lemme know and lets connect bc im so bored. i work and stuff but im still looking for company.

Recently moved to the Glenorchy area (near Sixth Line) and am struggling to find an internet provider. Our area is still mostly under construction. We are with Cogeco currently and the connection isn’t strong, but we haven’t been able to find any other providers that service our area yet.

Anyone live in this area and have suggestions?

Love to hike, travel, horse back riding and just eventful ideas and things together interested in a group or just a solo friend

Any walk in clinic you’d recommend in Oakville? I’m new to area

And facing severe burnout at work. I need a script for some time off or something before I go off the ledge

What are people doing with the leases that were signed in 2023 and 2024 when rent was so high. I see the prices now are decreased and what I am paying is above market and yearly increase still applies. Is your landlord matching the market or do you have to move out and get a new lease? Especially apartment buildings. Thanks

Does anyone know of any piles of wood chip mulch laying about anywhere around town?

I just need a few wheelbarrows full... I don't want a full arborist load or to pay for shitty bagged mulch from Home Depot. Just looking for good old fashioned arborist wood chip mulch that might have been dumped somewhere and forgotten about that I could dig into.

(And no, I don't mean the free compost from the dump. That's a different thing.)

My dad was walking my dog earlier this evening, when out of nowhere a grown ass man on an e-bike hits my dog. My dad said the rider was going so fast that he didn't see him until he was already 30' away rolling on the ground.

By some miracle my dog is okay, the guy was roughed up a bit but also fine. My dad (a biker) surprisingly only gave him a fairly stern talking to, and he still tried to defend himself by saying "I slowed down".

I understand teenagers are idiots, but this guy was in his 30's. When is enough going to be enough? Is there some kind of traumatic brain injury threshold we have to hit before we consider banning e-bikes? I'm all for personal freedom, but it is very clear that people are too outright dumb to be trusted with certain things.

I’m a capable swimmer but not the fastest/most practiced. Looking for a pool in Oakville or Burlington where I can get back into swimming without feeling like I’m holding up faster swimmers (maybe a pool that is not as busy)

Hi All,

My current AC 1.5 Ton unit is dying and I need a replacement. Looking for two stage and two ton AC recommendation and the service professionals you would recommend?

Thanks!

Oakville has genuinely become the capital of people pretending to be busier than they actually are. Every time I go anywhere now it feels like everyone is operating on fake urgency. People are tailgating on Trafalgar like they’re transporting organs to a hospital when in reality they’re probably headed to Pilates or picking up a salad. The funniest part is watching someone aggressively cut through traffic, speed past everybody, nearly cause three accidents, and then you end up right beside them at the next red light anyway. And don’t even get me started on the grocery store parking lots. Oakville drivers will see your reverse lights turn on and immediately materialize behind your car like vultures waiting for a parking spot while you’re still putting bags in your trunk. Relax bro, the Whole Foods parking lot is not the Hunger Games.

If so, what were you thinking? Our community is not a McDonalds’s play place.

There are no public fireworks or organized community events in our neighbourhood for Victoria Day, and there hasn’t been for years. What are you dropping your kids off here for? What exactly do you think they are up to while wandering around unsupervised? When you see the videos each year of literally hundreds of kids in our streets, running in and out of traffic, shooting fireworks off into crowds, aiming fireworks at each other, members of the public, homes, businesses and even police, do you think that’s ok?

The Bronte community is sick of this disruptive and dangerous behaviour, and sadly Victoria Day is just the warmup for Canada Day. We gladly welcome more than 20,000 of you each year for the lakefront Canada Day festival and fireworks. However your unsupervised teens are not welcome to run riot after the show. Last year there were close to 1,000 of them, literally terrorizing the community. Time to take some responsibility for your offspring.

We are grateful that police and town council finally devoted adequate resources to this problem this year. Tonight the several hundred kids who showed up were surprised to find police on every street corner in Bronte. Those who were arrested and / or given hefty fines for violating the new and improved bylaws were probably surprised too, but not as much as their parents. There was still dangerous and disruptive behaviour, but less than in previous years.

Parents, do better. If you wouldn’t want this happening in your neighbourhood, please don’t let your kids behave this way in ours.

I know it says Burlington in the heading, but they are also prowling Oakville!

I know a lot of people in town (myself included) have been having a hard time lately. I wanted to make a post sharing some of the resources that has helped me when I needed someone to talk to, and hope that if someone here is needing someone to talk to can find this useful too.

These are just some of the ones I have used and I have used the texting option.

988.ca ( text 988) has helped not only to get my thoughts out but they also gave me resources in ways to better handle tough emotions. This is a crisis and suicide hotline.

Progress Place Warm Line

Warmline.ca texting 6pm to 12 am is not a crisis hotline but you can connect with someone if you feel overwhelmed or lonely and just need someone to talk too. ( it took awhile to connect with someone but once I did they were very friendly and nice). There is also a calling option and on online chat option.

Some other resources I have come across but have not used but still wanted to pass along is:

Distress Centre Halton

www.dchalton.ca

COAST: Crisis Outreach and Support Team.

If anyone has anymore resources that they have used or know of, I would love to look into it.

Thanks!

Hi all,

What does everyone do for ticks here? How many of you have your pet on something like Bravecto? Are tick checks sufficient? Its our first summer here so just looking for some direction - We have found 2 ‘dog ticks’ un attached so far since maybe April ish? Ty in advance…

Edit to add; we never really had to deal with ticks - we relocated for dads job, spent a few months in kitchener area while he commuted and the vet didnt even mention bravecto (granted it was in January) but I will call a local vet to see what their opinions are, we dont go outside much, its limited to the sidewalks around our house and we dont walk on trails or anything like that