New payment options for passenger and commercial accounts will use transponders, prepaid amount accounts, cash, credit and debit cards and the use of a mobile app The majority of users of the Gordie Howe bridge are expected to be commercial
Read MoreThe new Gordie Howe Bridge between Windsor and Detroit is expected to open at the end of 2024, and is using a “dual design” apect.
“’Dual design’” means that it’s meeting the design specifications of both Canada and the US. If there’s ever a conflict between the design specifications, we go with the higher of the two specifications,” Heather Grondin told a packed room at the Hamilton Waterfront Centre on May 4th.
Grondin is the vice president of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority and was invited to address the the Hamilton Transportation Club (HTC), which has resumed meeting after a two year COVID hiatus.
Read MoreLast year, several witnesses testified under oath that Coutts and Ottawa were separate and distinct protests. There was no coordination, no grand plan. The leaders were different, and they weren’t in contact with each other. The freedom movement was organic. Lots of people, across the country, were concerned about the erosion of our freedoms. Some traveled to the nation’s capital. Other protested closer to home.
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Candidate for Mayor of Toronto Rob Davis says the front-runners are not "royalty" and should not expect they will be allowed to dominate the debates. Photo: YouTube
TORONTO, ON – Mayoral candidate Rob Davis – Toronto’s first Black city councillor and a three-term council member – today called on the city’s civic organizations and media to ensure equitable access to debate platform exposure on a wide range of issues.
“Toronto has a diverse population with wide-ranging interests and priorities. For democracy to thrive, it’s important that our public discourse affords equitable exposure to ideas from candidates reflecting the regions and communities that make up our city – and not just ideas from perceived front-runners,” said Davis.
Davis issued the call after the Toronto Region Board of Trade and TVO informed candidates of a restrictive format for their May 25th debate that gives an unfair advantage to sitting councillors and other candidates who have high name recognition in the early stages of the campaign.
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What are the odds I would win a framed print of Bob Coglianese's famed photo of Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes during my Year of Secretariat? 100 per cent, apparently, given the power of thought. (Photo credit: Debra Sherman)
2023 is the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest athletic accomplishments in history: Secretariat’s Triple Crown remains an inspiration for all ages I had been dreading the arrival of June 9, 2013. I didn’t even realize I had
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Speakers list for the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Heavy Duty Truck emissions reductions rules online hearing May 2nd. Image: EPA
The EPA’s virtual public hearings for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking took place on May 2 and 3, 2023. On a Speakers’ list packed full of representatives from the Lung
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Mayoralty candidate Olivia Chow met with drivers from Taxi and Uber during her campaign. Image: LDAO
Famed author Robertson Davies once noted that asking him to write the forward for a book on literary criticism was akin to “asking the Goose to say grace at Christmas dinner.” Taxi industry attendees at mayoralty candidate Olivia Chow’s “Taxi
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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
“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
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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