so with the permalinks, what should I do?
I am with DreamHost.
Yes the www was there. I had to add some define() in the wp-config myself because I futzed something when setting up the network. It initially says, when you first enable multisite in config, that you should ideally have things without “www” and so I changed that in my settings and it kicked me out permanently. So I added the following two lines to my config to fix it,
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://www.stolteclan.ca');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://www.stolteclan.ca');