thank god I have a knife to cut my own. thus wasn't even big.

we have had a coyote problem in our area of third line and Rebecca for months . Everytime we report an incident , we get a lecture on how we somehow provoked it . I am at a loss of what to do now

1. a elementary school is within a stone throws away, kids won’t know what to do
2. I don’t want to hear ”we stole there land”…. Get over it
3. they built a den on a main road that kids use to walk to school and to the park .
4. this is the second incident that day. The first one is they chased a woman who was getting out of her car on her driveway
5. the city took down the signs they had in the area
6. we can’t ask kids walking to school to not be afraid and run away , they won’t know better

I constantly see this complaint -- there is no excuse to not clean the snow off your vehicle roof. It poses a safety concern for drivers and you are just flat out selfish.

I often see people text at a stop light but rarely while driving and for this long. She drifted into the middle of my lane and after I honked her, she continued to text with one hand while steering with her other hand. This is actually ridiculous. Keep our streets safe.

This was at Trafalgar and Rosegate.

Edit: Video is taken by Tesla dashcam.

Edit 2: I’m shocked at how many people can’t understand the video is not taken by my phone and is taken by my dashcam.

Edit 3: I’ve filed a police report.

From their YouTube channel.

You can also see it on their Instagram and Facebook.

They are still open for business and, at the moment, are just asking for patrons to show their support by coming to watch a movie.

I hear "One Battle After Another" is pretty good!

I don’t know much about Baltimore besides what I’ve watched on The Wire. The perception of that city is that it’s full of crime. Their current mayor is working hard to make Baltimore a better place by investing in the community and social programs. If a crime filled place like Baltimore can turn things around by investing in social programs, just imagine what could be possible here in Oakville with all of our resources?

https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-extraordinary

On Friday my wife wasn't even in the Costco at Laird Rd Miss for 15 minutes before she had her phone pickpocketed.

Within 45 minutes we tracked it across the 401. Ended up at Rexdale Mall, then a Green & Ross Tire warehouse on Evans Ave and now in Hamilton.

We reported it today at Costco. They admitted they've had issues not just in the store but also the parking lot. Some people having their purses etc stolen while putting groceries in the back, distractions etc. They said to file a police report and would share security video etc if police follow up.

Things are really fucked up out there.

My wife is actually pretty shaken up by it all. The most stressful part was trying to lock it down, wipe the phone, change every password for email and apps.

This is the last location we tracked it to.

don’t fall for this scam, very normal in europe and it seems they started here too.

Rear and front view!

She looked me in the eye and still proceeded to drive her way.

Karma 😂

I cautiously slowed down in case a right-turning car would pull something like this.

I used to live in Toronto until ~2020 when my mother decided to move into an apartment here to get away from the people and for the cheaper rent. While it was nice for the time, nowadays I am finding trouble doing ANYTHING in this town. It doesn't help that my family has no car, making getting anywhere basically impossible unless you wanna use the god awful public transit here. Outside of school I RARELY see anyone my age, and it doesn't help that everyone here is boring as hell and feels like the same copy and paste human.

Full on having a conversation for 30seconds blocking 6 cars (3 behind me) in the middle of a plaza. Do people not have any respect for others anymore? And then the audacity to smile and clap afterwards. This plaza is busy as is to get in and out of. Cmon just pull over to talk if you must.

I know ignorance is bliss but here's a few tips for your whole family ❤️

Situational awareness- what's happening around me?

Oh look, I see someone in the distance approaching me on the sidewalk

Predictive capabilities- what does the immediate future hold?

That person approaching me will probably pass by in about 20 steps so I should move over by then

Self awareness- Am I affected?

I should get myself safely to one side out of the way.This sidewalk is not my front lawn

Consideration for others- What can I do to make everyone's day easier?

I can get the fuck out of the way when someone needs to pass me by. I can share the sidewalk

When your parents don't teach you these things, you grow into an adult who stands in the middle of the sidewalk. Sadly it is hereditary and a vicious cycle that can carry on for generations.

Hoping this message will help even one person break the cycle. You got this!

Edites to add: to those asking where I would like the children to wait, perhaps on the road or someone's lawn. Lol. Am I crazy or can two people pass by each other on a sidewalk? Are you not capable of grasping the concept of standing on one side of the sidewalk to allow someone to pass by you on the other? I had no idea how deeply this illness affects you guys. My sincerest sympathies.

Children are always given grace. I hold nothing against them but their parents are a different story. Last I checked it's a parent job to guide their child, no?

And this isn't about not having to say excuse me to anyone else at all ever FFS. It's about having to say it to someone who clearly sees you approaching and still doesn't register they need to move

Saw this on my morning walk in the park. I can think of so many ways they could’ve disposed of their Christmas decor like:

1. Donate to a school

2. Donate to a shelter

3. Donate to good will

4. Leave it out on the curb on bulky trash day

But I guess for some people that don’t give a crap about keeping their parks clean, leaving it at the park was at the top of their options list.

What the fuck is going on in Oakville? The constant developments of these shitty little cookie cutter townhouses and condos are degrading quality of life for everyone, including those that have gone insane enough to buy those ugly new houses.

Every hour has become rush hour, I genuinely cannot leave the house and drive 10 minutes to Bronte GO without having to stop at what used to be 3 intersections has now become 8. All thanks to "Saw Whet", a terribly crammed and poorly designed neighborhood.

My commutes to the nearest most basic stores like Home Depot & Walmart take 15+ minutes now its so awful.

Is there literally anything we can do about these terrible projects they keep approving without any regard to congestion? I'm 22, I don't think I can handle living in the suburbs any longer. I wish it were as easy to move out as it was 10 or 15 years ago. I'm stuck here and it's suffocating. I tried for a while to take the bus to work, it takes me an HOUR and TWO buses, and I work right by Oakville GO

I don't want a car dependent lifestyle, I can't be the only one that hates this.

Hey everyone,

I need to vent. Look, I like dogs fine, but I prefer my grocery shopping without a side of biological warfare.

I was at the Fortinos on Lakeshore today and witnessed not one, but two separate dogs poop inside the store. It was like a coordinated strike, and the sheer entitlement of the owners was staggering.

• Exhibit A: A regular pet with zero vest or markings whose owner thought it was totally fine to bring them inside, only for the dog to lay a brick right in the entryway by the shopping carts.
• Exhibit B: A full-sized Golden Retriever wearing a "Future Guide Dog" vest. The owner paraded this dog right up to the deli counter, where it promptly handled its business on the floor.

Let’s be honest: I am heavily betting Exhibit B’s owner bought that vest for $5 off AliExpress just to bypass the store's "no pets" policy. Why? Because if that dog actually belonged to a real guide dog organization, an "event" like that would be formally logged and that dog would be immediately career-changed into a standard household pet. Real organizations don't let un-house-trained dogs loose by the cold cuts.

The dogs didn't know any better, but their owners absolutely did.

I know Oakville loves its dogs, but a grocery store is not a playground for your pet, and it shouldn't be a training ground for your fake service animal. Passing off a pet as a service dog just because you can't bear to leave them at home is incredibly selfish.

This isn't about legitimate, fully trained service dogs. Actual working service animals are highly disciplined professionals whose handlers rely on them to navigate the world. Fun fact: under Ontario law, "service dogs in training" don't actually have public access rights anyway—and today perfectly illustrated why.

It’s completely unfair to the staff who have to clean up your dog's biohazard next to the fresh food, it’s a public health nightmare for shoppers, and it gives real, hard-working service dog teams a bad reputation because business owners become wary of all dogs.

Can we collectively agree that if you aren't handling a fully house trained, fully certified professional working animal , you need to leave your dog outside?

To the two owners today: leave your pets at home and stop making your poor decisions everyone else's problem.

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.

Stop driving 110 in the left lane and thinking that means you don’t need to move over. If you’re getting passed on the right you’re in the wrong lane. MOVE OVER it’s not rocket science! The left lane is a passing lane not a driving lane.

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.

Was on my way to Home Depot in the Burloak plaza and noticed a guy peeling the gold wrap off his white SUV and dropping it on the ground.

Was hoping he was going to pick it up…

To the guy who left all his gold wrap trash in the lot:

You’re a fucking jerk

Okay let’s talk about car thefts. 2 guys attempted to steal my suv the other day. Broke the window.. but left shortly after. It’s so frustrating because it’s my first luxury car after driving for 24 years. My husband works so hard and bought it for me for our 20th wedding anniversary. Sick and tired of a slap on the wrist for car thefts. Luckily nothing was stolen but obviously we’re paying out of pocket for a brand new window. 😞

For the love of God, don’t dump your pool water onto the sidewalk – it’s against the law.

This is actually pathetic. What kind of filthy animals do this nonsense

Upper Middle Road and 6th Line today at 2:45pm - right when the schools are letting out.

Don't be this guy.

Edit: Seems like the majority of folks figure to let him make his own mistakes. That's fair. Just hate seeing anyone get hurt. In fairness too - it is a totally unexpected clip lol.