If you paid too much attention to the mainstream media over the last 20 years, you might get the impression every single day is going to be just like the movie “Duel,” including the scorpions and the rattlesnakes.
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A Beck Taxi driver picked up an unexpected and unwanted passenger on December 28th: a baby yellow python.
The python was travelling in the purse of its owner and evidently slithered out somewhere along the route. When the young woman arrived home and realized her pet was missing, she called Beck in a panic and asked if the driver could check his vehicle to see if the python was there.
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“Highway 11/17 kills people,” says Richard Deschamps. “We need to come together and tell this Ontario government enough is enough.
“Enough with the deaths enough with these inexperienced, dangerous and unqualified drivers not respecting basic rules of our roads, enough with the carnage, enough with our safety being put in jeopardy every single time we use Highway 11/17, enough with the government not taking these issues seriously,” writes Richard Deschamps, who has launched a petition on change.org to pressure the Ontario government into taking action. “They need to take responsibility for these deadly actions.
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Following the December 16 accident it which it hit a tree, Whitby’s autonomous shuttle service “has been suspended until a full investigation has been completed,” says Durham Region Transit in a statement.
Additionally, the city of Toronto has taken its pilot shuttle out of service pending the results of the investigation: “The West Rouge Automated Shuttle Trial has been put on hold due to an incident in Whitby involving a similar service and due to current public health guidance regarding COVID-19,” reads the banner notice displayed on Toronto’s website.
Read MoreShould you ever lie to kids? This became a topic of conversation in my life in the last few years, because I’ve been around kids so little, they were just beginning to grasp the fact that there are such things
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In 2016, Mayor John Tory intervened with his own Motion to re-write the City’s Taxi by-law, providing ride-hailing companies with lenient new standards more to their liking. Five years later, in 2021, he has done exactly the same thing in
Read More December 18th update: Durham Region Transit has suspended operation of its “self-driving” shuttle project following an incident on December 16th. Photos published by Durham Radio News showed the shuttle had jumped a curb and hit a tree.
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“I’m very keen to find out how can we address it and how can we fix it, because Council has given direction on two occasions and on two occasions, we have now seen staff not just ignore the direction but simply reverse the direction on their own at their discretion, which is a problem.”
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Shortly after the vehicle for hire driver training item originally scheduled to be considered by Toronto Council on December 15th was delayed for a second day, Cheryl Hawkes asked media to “take a long look” at why training continues to be delayed.
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