Recent content by jimintoronto

Not many people can play the fiddle AND step dance, at the same time. Natalie can do both. JIM.

In the year 2025 so far, I have spent over 80 days in hospital ( three different admissions ) here in Toronto. ZERO costs to me. Universal health care is the standard in the rest of the First World, but not in the United States.

Hey Patty. I thought I would drop in and say hello to everyone who follows your wonderful ongoing thread. Patty lives in Cape Breton, in the Province of Nova Scotia. Cape Breton has a long and deep history of fiddle musicians, one of the best is Natalie McMaster. Many of our American friends...

READING .....is the foundation for EVERY other subject taught in school. If you cannot READ properly, you will not be able to understand all of the other subjects. Did you just READ that sentence ? Then you proved my point. JIMB.

US twenty five cent coins that were made BEFORE 1965 are silver content. Same for the 50 cent coins. The spot price for a ounce of silver today is ....About $42 USD. Those pre 1965 coins are worth MORE than their face value at any precious metal buyer shop. JIMB.

Not directly, but in many cases their business or career may have resulted in amassing wealth. Two examples. Sir Mick Jager, and Sir Sean Connery. Canadian citizens cannot be granted a British title, unless they officially renounce their Canadian citizenship. One of the very rare examples was...

There are I phone belt holders that attach to your waist belt . The holder has a retention device, that you need to manipulate to remove the phone and use it. Mine is mounted in the horizontal position, so movement is not restricted. Mine cost me about $40 at Best Buy. JIMB.

When I was doing vehicle repos in the greater Toronto area, I had to go to the 4 seasons nudist park, to get a car that had been abandoned there by the person who had leased it from my client's dealership. At the entrance gate, I explained what I was there to do, and the uniformed security guard...

Hypnosis results are NOT admissible as evidence in Canadian Criminal Court cases, per a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. Read this link. Google Search JIMB>

What is over the next hill? During the 1980's I was an owner/operator with a long distance direct drive courier company, based in Toronto. I had a one ton ford cargo van that could hold up to 2 four foot square skids of material. All of my distant deliveries were "someplace in the USA " and they...

German and Italian POW's were held in Canada, far from the European fighting areas. About 40,000 of them in total. Under the Geneva Conventions, officers were not required to do physical work, but the other ranks had to work 5 days of the week. In return for doing various types of labor, the...

The fact that the dump trailer was empty...Was his saving grace. If loaded with tons of gravel, the frame of the trailer would have been lower, closer to the road surface, due to the compression of the trailer's spring system. Luck comes in many ways, this was one of those ways. JIMB.

If you pay to attend a televised sporting event in Australia, you agree that in return for seeing the event in person, you can be shown on the tv broadcast as a part of the crowd. That fact is made VERY clear, when you purchase the tickets, either online or at the event gates. Just one example...

They can be an identifier. Many Americans wear fashionable brand name trainers, with bright coloured lettering on them, advertising the maker's symbol or brand name. Combined with other specific items of clothing, a person can be identified on store security cameras, which is one of the first...

The Canadian perspective on this story. It is all most impossible to become a LEGAL hand gun owner in Canada AND even if you are approved and get a restricted hand gun license issued by the Federal Government......you CANNOT carry it around with you. The hand gun can only be transported ( in a...