Guest Commentary Archives

Don is from Thunder Bay, and is the author of "Stories from the Road: My Years as a Long-Haul Trucker"

Letters from our Readers

March 17, 2024 Guest Contributor

Re: Sarkaria opens Thunder Bay inspection station If the new Thunder Bay scale is anything like the one it replaced, it’ll never be open. The killer point is, that is one of only two scales in the country that

"As the sun rises, so should your expectations for yourself each and every day," Paul Kearley says. Photo: Douglas Hedemark

Guest Commentary Walk the Talk with Paul Kearley

The choices we make

January 29, 2024 Guest Contributor

I know the life you could live, and it’s yours for the taking by Paul Kearly Kevin and I were talking about the PowerPoint presentation that we were preparing for the service when Greg stormed into the room. “All the

Justin Trudeau claims that Net Zero is a major priority for his government. Photo: GM

Guest Commentary Opinion/Column

Net Zero is a scam

December 4, 2023 Guest Contributor

by Dan McTeague Net Zero emissions by 2050. Have you heard this line? It is increasingly hard to miss. Every trendy business, bank, corporation and government boasts about their commitment to it. But what exactly do they mean by it? In

Citizen journalist Patriot Smoothie. Photo: YouTube

Guest Commentary News Trucking

Day #30 of Barber/Lich trial summary of coverage

November 30, 2023 Guest Contributor

Extreme lack of evidence hampers Crown’s case

Guest Commentary News Ride Hailing news Taxi industry news

Right now, hybrid Taxis are do-able; 100 per cent electric impossible

October 10, 2023 Guest Contributor

By Marc Andre Way At its October 11 Council meeting, the City of Toronto will vote on whether to require 100 per cent of Taxis and ridesharing vehicles to be all-electric by 2030. Other municipalities will certainly follow Toronto’s lead;

Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation Photo: Twitter

Guest Commentary Trucking

Day #3 BC trial: security threat closes court room, police onsite

October 7, 2023 RWN Staff

The British Columbia COVID vaccine exemption trial was disrupted on October 6th by a “security threat” which saw police arrive to evacuate the court room. “It was pretty disappointing in that I travelled all the way to BC for this

'The reaction from strangers has been — I'm disappointed because you were this, that and the other in our community and I don't put that together with you representing Tamara Lich,' says Lawrence Greenspon. (Alistair Steele/CBC) This photo of Edward Greenspon accompanied an April 2022 CBC news story.

Guest Commentary Trucking

Tamara Lich’s lawyer knows how horrifying the world becomes when good men do nothing

September 24, 2023 Guest Contributor

There is a story behind that Greenspon Photo by Donna Laframboise In April 2022 – less than two months after the Freedom Convoy has been violently suppressed – we learned that Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich had retained the services

Parent Ewa Mountain attended both the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and teh March4Kids in Durham. "March 4Kids felt like the sequel to the Freedom Convoy," she told RWN. Photo: Andy Parsons-Sheridan

Guest Commentary

March4Kids “felt like the sequel to the Freedom Convoy”

September 23, 2023 Guest Contributor

By Ewa Mountain It was a protest of all ages. Many families came out with their young kids. Grandparents and youth were there. It was a day that filled me with HOPE again, just like the day I watched from

Photo: GM

Guest Commentary Trucking

Why didn’t they talk to the Freedom Convoy?

September 16, 2023 Guest Contributor

So easy to treat the truckers like human beings rather than pond scum by Donna Laframboise During the Freedom Convoy protest, Janice Charette was this country’s most powerful civil servant. (This past June, someone else assumed that responsibility.) As the Tamara Lich/Chris