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Author: Rita Smith

Some of the CAF members Christianson represents refused the Covid shot and have been released or disciplined; others took the vaccine and are suffering disastrous side effects. “These are previously healthy men and women, now facing medical emergencies and injuries that have left them disabled for life,” Christianson told the National Citizens' Inquiry. Photo: NCI
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Loss of trust will doom military, lawyer for CAF members says

Rita Smith

“Being forced to take this into my body by a superior officer was like being raped over a desk at basic training all over again.”

This quote from a female member of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) was provided to the National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) at the April 26th hearing by Catherine Christianson, a lawyer representing hundreds of members of CAF in their efforts to obtain justice in their fight against Covid-19 policies.

Some of the CAF members Christianson represents refused the Covid shot and have been released or disciplined; others took the vaccine and are suffering disastrous side effects.

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Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman provided a detailed overview of what goes into writing an Emergency Plan for fire, flood, terror attack or pandemic. "They burned all the plans for COVID," he told the NCI. Image: NCI
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Former Canadian Armed Forces, Emergency Management Officer slams Canada’s COVID response

Rita Smith

13 provincial plans, federal plans written, shared, updated regularly by professionals were tossed aside during COVID, Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman tells the NCI Plans developed by Canada’s best professional Emergency Management Officers (EMOs) were discarded at the start of

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Ontario Line construction on Queen Street begins May 1; work is expected to take 4 years

Rita Smith

Starting Monday, May 1, no vehicular traffic will be allowed on Queen Street in the heart of downtown Toronto.

There will only be pedestrian access to Queen Street, from Bay Street to Yonge Street and Yonge Street to Victoria Street, for an estimated four and half years. This diversion is to accelerate Metrolinx’s construction of an Ontario Line connection to TTC Queen Station.

“Richmond, Adelaide, King and Dundas are going to be packed for next four and a half years,” says 36-year veteran Taxi driver Jafar Mirsalari. “Drivers will need to go further north, or way down south, to avoid it.”

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Isn’t going from 5,500 Taxis to 86,000 VFH is the opposite of “Net Zero”?

Rita Smith

Do Torontonians actually trust their Council to create a “Net Zero” program which reduces emissions without decimating the downtown core? The same Council that voted for “Net Zero” while increasing the number of licensed vehicles for hire by a factor of fifteen – from 5,500 to 86,000?

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TTSAO president Phil Fletcher; Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney; and TTSAO Board Chair Ken Adams met to discuss training challenges and opportunities on April 19, 2023.
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MELT, fake trucking credentials, simulator training covered in TTSAO meeting with Minister Mulroney

Rita Smith

Upgrades to the MELT curriculum, a mentorship program for new graduates, and counterfeit Trucking credentials were all on the agenda TTSAO’s April meeting with Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney.

Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) President Phil Fletcher says the agenda was packed but the discussions went well at the April 19th meeting.

“Most importantly, we discussed the concept of adding a ‘post-graduation’ mentorship program for new drivers,” Fletcher says. “We would need to co-ordinate it with the carriers hiring new graduates, and it can be designed specifically to target some of the real problems we are seeing with new drivers in Northern Ontario in winter.”

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