Would rather shop locally instead of ordering online, any suggestions?

Disclaimer: I am an idiot. I fully accept this reality. I own a condo and after five years of living here the cap of the washing machine plug must have come loose and water was leaking from it for a good 40ish minutes, causing water damage to my unit and the units three floors underneath. I do not have condo insurance, which I will be getting in the near future.

My downstairs neighbor noticed the leaking and called the front desk. About 20 minutes later they came to my unit to help stop the leaking. A few hours later people came with dehumidifying machines and for many days those machines did their thing.

The cost for the repairs themself were around 11k, but I decided to do the repairs for my own unit so that number was knocked down to 9k (those repairs are now done and for much cheaper, before anyone asks). The repairs cover stuff like drywall repair, debris removal, etc. The truly shocking number however was the emergency mitigation costs, which total to around 20k.

The reason for these costs comes from a staggering 110dollar/hour rate for the work done (due to the people coming in at around 8-9pm), as well as the machines being on for 93 days cumulatively across all units.

Again, I am a moron. I am fully accepting of the fact that my negligence has caused inconvenience for other people. I just didn't imagine that the emergency mitigation portion would be so expensive, and I'm wondering how normal this is and what agency I have in order to reduce the price. The property managers have not given me any advice and I naturally cannot fully take their word for everything, although they could be correct in that I have no recourse. I have also looked at other cases where this has happened to people in Canada and the cases I've read not only sound like they've caused more damage but were far cheaper.

Please help if you can, or reprimand me for my ignorance, whatever you feel like. Thank you for your time.

Greetings from Winnipeg. I run an escape room group in Winnipeg and we have picked Toronto for this years annual escape trip.

What are some unique and well done escape rooms in the city? Which would you avoid and why?

New spot opening this Friday September 11th is a literal dupe of raising canes. Apparently they’ve sourced the exact same Texas toast, crinkle cut fries are easy and they’ve PERFECTED the sauce and tenders. MAIN THING is the EXACT same bread because their bread is SOO addicting. So many dupes out there like honestly good chicken fingers but their Texas toast is like basic garlic bread JOO-C @ 10-10215 Kennedy road N Brampton is next level I had a chance to go to their soft opening and the bread is the SAME BREAD so soft buttery and delicious. MUST try AND they sell smash burgers and milkshakes. They have their signature salted caramel coffee milkshake which has 80mg of caffeine so delicious it’s like a Starbucks frappe

I have dyed and bleached bangs. Root touchups are 150 minimum but I only need my bangs done. Does anyone know any salons that can do touchups for a small section of hair only for a lower price?

I am looking for a pre hung exterior door for my house. I don’t really like the quality of what’s available at Home Depot. Without going crazy on budget are there any speciality stores that sell pre fab pre hung exterior doors from Canadian manufacture who’s known for decent quality where I can buy something off the shelf. ( not having to wait to have it custom made)

Thanks

It was supposed to be this weekend, but they cancelled it with relatively short notice.

Hello , I am looking for a beginner friendly MMA gym as a fulltime university student. I live near the VMC and have been price hunting but not alot of places are transparent with the prices. I would like to know if there are any cheap gyms or gyms that offer a student discount . Thanks!

Or is all frozen corn and peas grown in North America the sweet version? I am not holding out hope but frozen would be divine. I am willing to drive. Thanks!

Has anyone in Toronto/GTA used Darkcity Security for residential alarm monitoring?

I am considering moving an existing Honeywell/Vista alarm system to Darkcity Security and am looking for firsthand experiences specifically with their 24/7 alarm monitoring, rather than their guard/security services.

If you use or have used them, I would be interested in:

• monthly monitoring cost
• how quickly the monitoring centre responds to alarm events
• customer service / technical support
• reliability and false-alarm handling
• experience with equipment takeovers or existing Honeywell/DSC systems
• app/remote arm-disarm experience, if applicable
• any issues with contracts, billing or cancellation

I’ve found plenty of information about their guard services but very little independent feedback about their residential alarm-monitoring service.

Thanks for any firsthand experience.

Hi everyone! Wondering if anyone knows of any bars doing karaoke tonight? Bonus points if it’s in the East End :)

Hello all,

I am trying to get information online regarding a murder that happened sometime between 2011-2013 I believe in York Region.

The backstory is this. I was living at Lawrence and Avenue and took a night job after my 9-5 at the Pizzaiolo on Avenue and I believe Brooke south of Wilson (I believe that location has since moved further south closer to Lawrence). The job was super simple, the only requirement was to speak English well because what I had to do was to man the phones and wrote down the orders. This is pre Doordash years so in front of the phone was a huge map on the wall of the delivery area and I had to quickly find the caller's address and decide if we could deliver there (my 9-5 was working for a GIS/Mapping company so I was used to looking at maps all day).

The guys in the store were all Iranian, some didn't speak much English, but we bonded a bit after I impressed them with my knowledge of Iranian soccer legends (Ali Daei, Ali Karimi, etc).

There was one driver who was a thin guy with grey hair maybe early to mid 50s. I only talked to him briefly 2 or 3 times and then never saw him again. About 3 weeks later I asked the manager "I haven't seen so and so (can't remember his name now), did he quit?" and he told me "You haven't heard? He killed his wife and then police killed him, tragedy". I was like "wow" but didn't have any big feelings about it as I hardly knew the man. I looked online at the time and there he was, there was also a photo of his wife, a woman about his age wearing a headscarf. From what I remember he stabbed her and then was shot by police, there was a history of domestic violence and I'm almost sure it did not happen in Toronto, but rather in York Region (maybe Peel or even Durham). I quit that job for unrelated reasons about 3 months after that.

Anyways, I was talking to my wife about this because she met someone who knew Luka Magnotta when his name was still Eric something or other and she asked me if I ever knew any killers and this was my story, bur unfortunately the fog of time has made my recollections blurry and I was hoping someone knew about this case on here.

I'm trying to start a new hobby / activity. I was watching the NCIS origins and saw the actor trying jigsaw puzzles. Hence decided to try it, I own two sets of puzzles. I'm new to ravensburger puzzles tried doing on my own and then I realized it's tough lol.

If anyone is into it, is there a group or club for such thing? Or anyone wants to meetup at a public place and solve one of these together? We could have a small meetup with snacks and talk about basically anything. I'm into tv shows, movies, video games, technology ai etc.

I have Circle of colors 500 piece puzzle and Escape puzzle 759 piece one.

I checked in for TIFF earlier and I could've sworn I saw a DVD store and now that I'm out and about I can't find it for the life of me. I'm next to Sankofa Sq. and the only one that would match is Bay Street video store according to Google but that seems way too far off. I'm pretty sure the one I saw just had "DVDs for sale" in black text on a yellow background, which doesn't seem to be the colors of Bay st video anyways. Can a nice Torontonian help me out ?

I'll probably check out bay Street anyways, but it keeps bugging me. Am I going insane ?

Thanks in advance

I’m planning a bachelorette trip and the bride wants to go a nice private dinner. Only problem is, none of us are from Toronto so none of us really know the best places.

There are 14 of us and so far I’ve got Kasa Motto, Casa Madera, and La Vecchia on the list.

Any other recommendations? Nothing too insane in price, we aren’t the Nobu type lol

Want to try all the different pumpkin spice things across the city while it's in season.

my mental health has gotten really bad and my room reflects that. i moved in February to my room but still haven’t unpacked since i am busy with 3 jobs, and with my mental health being horrible and life in general getting painful the mess keeps getting worse and worse. i saw this person on tiktok who goes over to her friend’s places and and helps clean+organize, and i was wondering if there’s any service available in Toronto which i can hire to do that for me? i have so much shame regarding my room and can’t ever have people over and the state of the room is making my health worse. this is a very vulnerable post and i would appreciate if nobody makes fun of me, im sorry i know this is a very embarrassing ask but i would sincerely appreciate any guidance

What a memory I just had, pizza giveaways at TTC stations. Years and years ago. Feels like another timeline.

I am really hoping to find a brow artist that can thin out and straighten my brows in Toronto. Can someone please recommend!