Thursday, October 29, 2026
Taxi News & Road Warrior News

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Mark’s Kenworth. Photo: Donna Laframboise
Feature/ProfileGuest ContributionsTrucking

A Fisherman, a Truck & a Train Horn

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Mark rescues old trucks. These days he owns 30 of them, the oldest being a green 1936 Maple Leaf, one of the earliest heavy duty pickups sold in Canada. “I get most of them outta California,” he says. “You start with no rust, so they’re a lot easier to restore.”

A commercial fisherman in Nova Scotia for 40 years, in the summer of 2023 he tells me scallops are doing well. Lobsters are another story. Market prices are “always up and down, they’re yo-yos. You never know.”

Back in January 2022, an Ontario friend told Mark he was heading to Ottawa to take part in the trucker protest scheduled for that weekend. Did Mark want to come?

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Green for Life vehicle in GFL's Ayr, Ontario facility. Photo: RWN
NewsTrucking

Canadian product stewardship and EPR: 2023 summer update

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Gowling WLG – Mark Youden, Emma Hobbs, Lauren Mar and Wynona Klemt Across Canada, governments and non-governmental agencies continue to implement various innovative waste management programs to divert waste away from landfills. These programs involve many product categories, including tires, batteries, electronic products, packaging and printed

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"Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver" by Hans Wienhold is now availabe on Amazon. Image: Amazon
Guest ContributionsLaugh a Little

Avoiding vomit: the battle of wits between Bartenders and Cab drivers

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Over the 2025 holiday season,Taxi News will re-post some of thebest, funniest, and most memorable contributionswritten by drivers over the years.Thank you to our contributors! Excerpt from “Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver,” available on Amazon by Hans Wienhold Uncle Jay, whom

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Photo by Ian Cumming. Originally posted to the Ontario Farmer Facebook page, the accompanying text read: “Trucks parked on Wellington Street in Ottawa on January 29, 2022.”
Guest ContributionsOpinion/Column

How big was the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy?

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Agricultural journalist says it was wildly larger than reported by Donna Laframboise “I come from a long line of farmers,” says Ian Cumming, who covered the Freedom Convoy for the Ontario Farmer newspaper. Which means, he says, he grew up with truckers. On

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Young Trucker Tyler was so demoralized by Canada's COVID mandates, he decided to quit trucking and become a mechanic instead. Photo: Donna Laframboise
Guest ContributionsOpinion/ColumnTrucking

Not a Trucker Anymore

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“The convoy and life after the convoy has really changed my way of thinking and what I want out of life. I no longer enjoy living in a truck and living out of truck stops for days on end away from family and friends. After losing my job due to the vaccine bullshit and having some time off to sit around and think…I realized that I actually want a home life and a family of my own…

…I also realized that I enjoy fixing trucks more than I enjoy driving them. So I have decided to sell the truck…and chase after another dream. Tomorrow I start a new job where I will be fixing heavy equipment and trucks as an apprentice! I’ll be home every night with weekends off which is something I’ve never had as an owner operator! I’m very excited to start this new life.”

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