The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, today announced the first-ever launch of category-based selection for Canada’s flagship economic immigration management system, Express Entry.
Read MoreToronto Mayoralty candidate Olivia Chow visited the Taxi corral at Billy Bishop Airport on Monday, May 29th. One of the audience members captured and contributed this clip to Taxi News. Voter information is available on Toronto’s website, here. “If you don’t
Read MoreExceleRATE is a proactive driver risk evaluation designed to answer the question of driver fitness-for-duty. The program addresses the challenge of identifying impairment risk resulting from underlying medical conditions, which traditional training methods may not detect.
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Potholes and Cracked Pavement Keep Barton Street East in the Top Spot on the provincial CAA Worst Roads List. Photo: CAA
The votes are in, and the CAA Worst Road for 2023 is Barton Street East in Hamilton. Barton Street’s persistent issues with potholes and severe alligator cracking in the pavement have led to its dubious distinction. The road first appeared on the top 10 list in 2019 and has steadily climbed its way to the top now for the second year in a row.
Taking the second and third place spots are roads that at one point have also crowned the top of the list, Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto and County Road 49 in Prince Edward County.
Read More“Then I managed to contact a reporter who worked for the New York Times, who told me what was happening to me was exactly what was happening to him. His stories were being shut down, he was being blocked. As he saw it, we had two options. One of them was quit and be a whistleblower. Or just stay, and fight it out, and keep trying to push those stories through.
…I was just reeling from all this because I thought, you know, we have betrayed our audience on a massive scale. Massive.”
On Thursday, May 18th 2023, an earthquake occurred. On that day three senior journalists described under oath how Canada’s mainstream media broke the rules and failed every ethics test during the COVID era.
Media coverage of the Freedom Convoy was so obviously dishonest because journalists had, by then, gotten used to torquing the news outrageously. After two years of mindlessly parroting every official COVID talking point, they’d ceded their independence so thoroughly they no longer cared about the audience to whom they were meant to be delivering a public service. Taking orders from above, they were playing follow-the-leader.
Last Thursday, at a National Citizens Inquiry hearing, Marianne Klowak talked about resigning from CBC Winnipeg. In disgust and despair. After 34 years on the job. In her words, “I had witnessed in a very short time the collapse of journalism, news gathering, investigative reporting. And the way I saw it is that we were, in fact, pushing propaganda.”
Read MoreThe city had opened a Pandora’s Box when it initiated the restricted entry, equity licensing regime. By the time I entered the business, the city was trying to find a way of extricating itself from this system.
The main problem with extrication was that too many industry participants had invested their lives in the system the city had created. Thus, any move to eliminate the equity plate system was met with strong opposition from those who stood to lose everything they had worked for.
The city opted for a stealth approach.
ivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr would have instantly identified with the truckers’ cry for freedom. He himself talked about the “struggle for freedom,” the “freedom movement,” and “the gospel of freedom.”
Screen capture from the Enclyclopedia of Alabama. Source here.
Screen capture from the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Source here.
Like some Ottawa residents, certain Birmingham residents were hostile to the civil rights movement. They didn’t care about desegregating society. They resented the inconvenience. They wanted the protests to end.
Read MoreThe Alberta election is officially underway, and early polls indicate the results will be close. Though there are several parties contesting this election, only two parties can win: the United Conservative Party (UCP), led by Premier Danielle Smith, and the Alberta NDP, led by former premier Rachel Notley.
Rachel Notley served as Premier of Alberta from 2015 – 2019. The NDP election victory in 2015 came as a shock not only to Alberta, but to the country.
What did Notley and her NDP government accomplish during her time in office?
