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Retired Taxi driver Andy Reti and his wife Judy spend several days each year visiting Ontario schools to ensure young people remember the Holocaust. On May 9th, he finished a week of visits to schools in the Ottawa-Carleton School Board by speaking to students in Athens, Ontario. Photo: Taxi News
“Are you an Upstander, or a Bystander?” A classroom full of teenagers were intrigued by this question when it was put to them bluntly by guest speaker and Holocaust survivor Andy Reti. An Upstander, he explained, is a person who
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A well-designed and perfectly installed culvert is a thing of beauty. You appreciate this most on a road where one is missing.Photo: Road Warrior News
“When you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.” — Dale Carnegie In Ontario during springtime, the lowly culvert becomes a hugely significant piece of infrastructure. Dry ditches can become raging creeks with mini-waterfalls in March and April; our system
Read MoreHave you ever been so put off by bad service that not only did you vow never to return, but you also felt compelled to share your dreadful experience with everyone you knew? That’s exactly what happened to me at
Read MoreThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so From two to three in the morning is a long, quiet time. You really get to hear the creaks, cracks, and noises that the house makes—not to mention
Read MoreIn Canada, trying to make sense of a world that feels like it’s unraveling “Dear Friends, Family, and Community, I’m writing this with a heart so heavy it feels like it might collapse under the weight of my grief. The
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Nobody is sharing anything in the "sharing economy;" but the change in terminology gave vendors a new way to evade important safety regulations. Image: Toronto Star
It’s time to re-group and reconsider ground transportation responsibly by Marc André Way “Ridesharing.” Remember that quaint idea? It sounded so warm and fuzzy and friendly in 2014. Supposedly, individual car owners would be offering rides to friends and neighbours
Read MoreNDP candidate in Scarborough-Woburn hopes to get things changed A Liberal friend and I once had nostalgic discussion. It was about by-gone days, when government seemed to get useful things done with a minimum of the drama, acrimony and sheer
Read MoreAs Canadians prepare to cast their votes, Truckers for Safer Highways calls on all political leaders to recognize a fundamental truth: supporting truck drivers is supporting Canada’s economy. At a time when supply chains are stretched and economic stability is
Read MoreMaybe Uber didn’t call the driver because Uber didn’t know the driver A Toronto Uber driver inadvertently pulled away with a sleeping child on the rear bench of his van. Uber Corporate would not give the frantic mom or the
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