A voter analytics firm harvested data from millions of Americans’ cellphones during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns and used the data to assign phone users a “COVID-19 decree violation” score and a “COVID-19 concern” score, according to a whitepaper released by PredictWise, the firm that harvested the data.
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Since the release of our regulatory perspectives article in 2021, there have been a variety of regulatory and policy developments around the world regarding the use of autonomous vehicles (AV or AVs).
In addition to highlighting recent developments for the operation of AVs in Japan, the U.K., the European Union, the U.S., and China, jurisdictions of South America, Australia, New Zealand and India are poised to make significant strides in developing regulatory landscapes conducive to the development of autonomous vehicles.
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Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government keeps insisting on one new expensive energy policy after another, and all of these efforts are designed to make energy unaffordable for Canadians.
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I have to tell you about the morning Alexis and I left for Ottawa.
It started in Oshawa on an extremely cold morning on the Thursday, January 27th. We threw our bags in the wagon and off we went in a 1981 Kenworth W900A day cab with too much wheelbase. As we rolled on down the road laughing about our rolling billboard behind us, Alexis kept me updated on any new convoy news.
Now ya gotta remember, we thought there were people already there from pics we had seen. We stopped in Joyceville where we grabbed a drink and yes, got flipped off. Little did I know, little Miss Alexis liked being in the big truck and would later go get her “Class A”…oopsy, my bad.
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Spectaire has developed technology which helps Trucking firms which exceed emissions standards by trading carbon credits. Photo: RWN Canadian trucking companies and operators now have access to an entirely new revenue stream thanks to a pioneering technology that’s just hit
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Judicial Watch obtained 249 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services detailing the extensive media plans for a propaganda campaign to push the COVID-19 vaccine.
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A recent piece of investigative journalism delved into the mysteries of Canada’s marketing board and quota management systems, designed to keep prices high and family farms solvent. Apparently, some Greek Orthodox nuns in Quebec ran afoul of the law by milking their own cows – and selling cheese.
The mistake the Greek Orthodox nuns made was that they didn’t have an app. Nor did they have the entire Junk News apparatus singing praises to their totally innovative new industry.
The solution to ever higher dairy prices is obvious: Uber Dairy.
Instead of selling dairy products, they could hire an army of gig workers to buy, or lease, cows and “share” dairy products using “disruptive technologies.”
Unlike dairy farmers who cash out their “quota” for piles of money at the end of their careers, Canadian Taxi industry “quota owners” outside of Montreal never received a cent in compensation when governments unceremoniously dumped the old quota system. The politicians just threw them under the bus.
They were the “unvaxxed” of 2012.
It was easy enough for politicians to do. The difference between the taxi quota owners and the dairy quota owners was that the taxi quota owners had nowhere near the political clout, nor public sympathy, of the dairy quota owners. Even the homeless have more political clout than anyone in the taxi industry.
As far as I know, no one in the Hamilton taxi business committed suicide over what the politicians did to them. Considering the magnitude of the crime, and the degree of devastation it caused, I find that surprising.
I have a theory, though. Since the taxi business is heavily populated with immigrants from corrupt and war-torn Third World countries, having everything they worked for destroyed in the blink of an eye was not unfamiliar to them.
And they learned a valuable lesson: that Canada is, in many ways, just as corrupt as the countries they fled from.
One of my friends in the business immigrated from India back around 1990. When we first became acquainted, he would tell me stories of the ubiquitous corruption in his native country.
“If you want a telephone installed, you will wait five years. But if you know the right palms to grease, you can get one in twenty-four hours.” After several years of building up his taxi business in Hamilton, he told me he had had a realization.
“You know, Hans, it is just as corrupt here as it was in India.” I finished his thought for him—”it is just less visible here.” Perhaps that is one reason he never invested as heavily in “taxi quotas” as some others did, and was thus able to weather the storm better than most.
As I read through the report on the plight of dairy farmers, I could see numerous parallels between their regulated industry, and the one I left in 2018.
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In a recent decision on COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the workplace (Parmar v. Tribe Management Inc.), the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Court) held that an employer is entitled to place an employee on unpaid leave of absence for failing to comply with its mandatory vaccination policy.
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