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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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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Legalizing rideshare permitted more than 80,000 additional vehicles to cruise Toronto's already-gridlocked streets. No matter which figure you use, 50,000 or 80,000 cruising cars is a lot more than 5,500 Taxis ***** An astonishing thing happened at Toronto’s October 11th City Council Meeting. While considering mandating electric Taxis and Ubers in order to
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"Street food" during the Freedom Convoy. Photo supplied by Sandra 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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Photo: Hindustan Times 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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Photo: "Limited View" by Mike Murchison By Mike Millian, President of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada Underneath the surface of the transportation industry is a movement of drivers and carriers that are embracing an incorporation model, sometimes referred to as Driver Inc. Under this
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‘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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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
Read More“Toronto is only committing to make only 50 per cent of its bus fleet electric by 2030, and the drivers of those busses will still get paid every two weeks whether the bus is profitable or not“ Following is the
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