Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford is the last living signatory to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Travel vaccine mandate challengers in court to contest “mootness” ruling: where is Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition?

Open letter to Pierre Poilievre, Leslyn Lewis, Melissa Lantsman, Roman Baber, Rachael Thomas, and the Conservative Party of Canada A public response is respectfully requested. My co-applicant, Karl Harrison & myself, Brian Peckford, Maxime Bernier, Nabil Ben Naoum and 6

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Taxi driving in Thunder Bay circa 1985: Don Taylor’s driving career gets started

I had always loved driving, and mom once told me the only car seat she could put me in where I wouldn’t cry was one with a steering wheel. I, of course, have no memory of this. I started driving taxi not thinking of it as a start to a trucking career. Instead, I just figured it would do until “something better comes along.”  It would be nine years of “making do” before I made the jump to being a full-time truck driver.

Before he was a writer, and before he was a Truck driver, Don Taylor earned his living as a Taxi driver at Roach’s Taxi in Thunder Bay.

My test drive with Roach’s was with one of their big commercial customers, mainly to see how I’d treat the vehicle on rough roads. The owner’s brother was the road tester, meaning, of course, that I was gentle with the car.

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