Opinion/Column – Page 60 – Taxi News & Road Warrior News

At first, I did very little driving, mostly I was hand-bombing goods all day.

Hand-bombing (also known as “finger printing”) involves manually unloading trailers. There are many reasons why this task exists.

Grocery warehouses, for example, store products by size, type and weight. If the warehouse orders, 34 cases of salmon-flavoured cat food in 5 oz cans, 54 cases of 7 oz cans, and another 100 cases in 10 oz cans, the plant where they make the cat food places it all on a single pallet. Once it arrives at the warehouse, it must be separated to allow each pallet to contain only one size and flavour.

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Canada’s climate delegation wins “Lifetime Achievement Award” for wasting taxpayers’ dollars

May 26, 2022 RWN Staff

The “Teddy Waste Awards” celebrate the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year. 2022 marks the 24th anniversary of the Teddy Awards. Photo: CTF

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation hosted its 24^th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony celebrating the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year.

“The National Capital Commission wins a Teddy Waste Award for wasting millions on a backup cottage for the prime minister to use while it wasted millions more on the prime minister’s country retreat,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF.

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Propane tank in a Dodge Diplomat trunk: welcome to the 1980s!

May 22, 2022 Guest Contributor

The next change at Oikonen’s Taxi saw the purchase of wheelchair accessible taxis. These much-needed forms of transportation for Thunder Bay were modified mini-vans with lowered floors that used tie-downs to hold the wheelchairs in place. Since I wanted out of the propane-tanked Diplomat, I was intrigued about the mini vans.

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Lessons from Geese: are you following the right leader?

May 18, 2022 Rita Smith

eese are like sausage and democracy: if you are inspired by them, you should not spend too much time observing them closely. Not in a shared urban environment, anyway.

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With my Class “A” license, I was ready for the glamorous life!

May 15, 2022 Guest Contributor

by Don Taylor, excerpted from “Stories from the Road” used with permission After we returned from our “tour”, I went back to driving for Roach’s Taxi again. Later in 1986, another friend of mine told me he had taken a

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17,000 doctors and scientists agree with Truckers’ Convoy: COVID mandates must be eliminated

May 14, 2022 Guest Contributor

Photo: Rise Up Durham Global COVID Summit, Declaration IV A Joint Statement, representing 17,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists to restore scientific integrity 17,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists Declare that the State of Medical Emergency must be lifted, Scientific integrity restored,

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It only took 75 hours per week to earn a living driving Taxi in Thunder Bay in 1985

May 8, 2022 Guest Contributor

Don Taylor wrote “Stories from the Road” based upon favourite stories told around the campfire with family and friends. Photo: Don Taylor by Don Taylor, excerpted from “Stories from the Road” used with permission The Roach’s Taxi owner and I

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Average Trucker has more integrity “in his pinky finger” than Charest had in his entire “scandal-plagued Cabinet” Poilievre says in May 5 debate

May 6, 2022 Rita Smith

PAC (the Canadian Parliamentary Access Channel) hosted the first of two all-candidates to be held in the Conservative leadership race last night. The Truckers’ convoy provided a contentious debate point between former Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Pierre Poilievre, Carleton MP.

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The new rules of medicine

May 1, 2022 Guest Contributor

“Misinformation” is any information that contradicts the current mainstream narrative, even if it is true.
Never agree to debate any misinformation spreaders; they are evil people.
Expert opinion, formerly the lowest level of evidence, is now at the top of evidence-based medicine when the experts are from a government agency
You don’t need any clinical evidence to prescribe a drug or vaccine if the CDC says it is safe.