Thursday, October 31, 2024

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DriveWise Canada now approved as trainer in Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire program

DriveWise Canada has been selected as the second training company approved to deliver the City of Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire program.

“We are pretty excited to have been selected,” Lesley de Repentigny, DriveWise’s president told Taxi News on June 3rd. “It’s good news for us, but also for drivers and people in Toronto, to have trained drivers on the road.

“We worked with the City to revise our program and ensure it includes all the elements Toronto was looking for; now, we are officially approved and opened up enrollment for the first class, which will begin on June 21st.”

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Canada’s constitution “does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators” Galati says

Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati argued that forced COVID-19 vaccines are an important matter of public interest and must be considered by Canada’s courts. Galati was presenting by Zoom on Tuesday, May 31st in Vancouver’s Supreme Court room. “The Constitution does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators,” said Galati, whose father was imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist government in Italy during World War II.

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Rocco Galati in BC court today to oppose “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional” COVID actions

On Tuesday May 31, 2022 at 10:00am PDT, attorney Rocco Galati is set to address the defendant’s Motion to Strike via Zoom in its case against the British Columbia and Canadian governments.

Galati represents Action4Canada in its response to legislation enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Action4Canada maintains that the legislation undermines Canada’s Constitution, the Charter, and Canadian democratic values.

Government actions, Galati says, have been “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional.”

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Mike Murchison’s “Post Cards” from the East Coast

Full-time Truck driver, part-time musician, writer and photographer Mike Murchison made a trip to Nova Scotia in May for an important family event.

Mike’s perspective on life and work, on the road and in Canada, is unique. Today Road Warrior News is dedicating a page to some of his most interesting East Coast photos; as always, his wry and ironic captions are at least as much fun as the images themselves.

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MTO has been “asleep at the wheel” says McDougall

“MTO was asleep at the wheel,” says Travis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways.

McDougall, commenting on the May 18th arrests by Ontario and Quebec police forces of persons providing fraudulent documents and fake commercial truck driver training, congratulates the police forces but wonders why Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation (MTO) overlooked the scam for so long.

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OPP, Sûreté du Québec arrest gang providing false documents, fake truck driver training and licensing

 Several individuals have been charged with fraud after a two-year investigation into allegations related to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver training.

On May 18th, Quebec’s Economic Crimes Investigation Service, in collaboration with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), arrested 6 individuals from Montreal, Laval and Brampton, Ontario in connection with the production and the use of false documents. The documents allowed foreign clients to obtain driver’s licenses, including licenses to drive heavy goods vehicles.

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