Defense finally getting its chance: Barber/Lich trial Day 32
“Where is the presumption of innocence?” Citizen journalists provide courtroom summaries on the longest misdemeanor trial in Canada’s history.
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Smoking in the Cab
Individual autonomy gradually being replaced by collective authoritarianism Before you read further, I recommend you read these books: For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, Jacob Sullum Slow Burn: The Great American Antismoking Scam
Read MoreGuide to doing business in Canada: introduction to the legal structure of Canada
Gowling WLG – Wendy J. Wagner Historical background Unlike the United States, Canada was not created by a unilateral declaration of independence from the colonial occupation of England. There was no “Canadian revolution” or other similar act that dramatically gave birth to
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Taxi driving in Thunder Bay circa 1985: Don Taylor’s driving career gets started
I had always loved driving, and mom once told me the only car seat she could put me in where I wouldn’t cry was one with a steering wheel. I, of course, have no memory of this. I started driving taxi not thinking of it as a start to a trucking career. Instead, I just figured it would do until “something better comes along.” It would be nine years of “making do” before I made the jump to being a full-time truck driver.
My test drive with Roach’s was with one of their big commercial customers, mainly to see how I’d treat the vehicle on rough roads. The owner’s brother was the road tester, meaning, of course, that I was gentle with the car.
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Miracles from nothing during Freedom Convoy
Pots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless
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Trudeau, as a CEO, would be forced to take fall for Liberals’ Nazi blunder
Levitt Sheikh So, let’s get this straight. Someone is feted by the entire House of Commons, introduced as having fought against Russia during the Second World War. That would be the one war, above all others, that has been carved
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Cupfuls of Love
‘Everybody was just doing stuff for everybody’ by Donna Laframboise During the weeks Guy and Mike sat in their trucks in Ottawa as part of the Freedom Convoy protest, some members of the public informally adopted them. Amongst these was
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TSH visits new Thunder Bay scale
Travis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways stopped in Thunder Bay recently to check out the progress on the new scale and inspection station on the east side of Thunder Bay. It is being built at a cost of over
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Why did Canada ignore decades of Emergency Management experience during COVID?
Canada is approaching the three-year anniversary of its first case of COVID-19. Over time, it has become increasingly clear that COVID represented not just a public health issue, but a crisis in governance and democratic values. COVID forced Canadians to face the fact that government systems they trusted unquestioningly are not functioning as smoothly as we had all assumed.
For example, long before COVID appeared, expert, professional Emergency Management Organizations (EMOs) already existed in every province and territory. They’ve battled wildfires in Alberta, ice storms in British Columbia, and floods in Manitoba. They maintain constant contact with each other, and with their federal, municipal, and international counterparts. They partner with public sector agencies and private sector businesses.
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