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“It’s a joke” that Toronto doesn’t acknowledge its own training program, says Taxi veteran

Rita Smith

Toronto’s refusal to acknowledge any previous Taxi driver training has nothing to do with public safety, says 36-year veteran driver Jafar Mirsalari.

“It’s a formality, but it has nothing to do with public safety,” says Mirsalari. “It’s a money grab, it’s just window dressing. It’s a way for them to claim these tens of thousands of rideshare drivers now have training. Six hours of training with an online test? It’s a joke.

“This is not going to reduce the number of aggressive drivers on the road, and it is not going to professional customer service to the industry.”

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Climate change science is not “settled” and net zero C02 targets are superstitions: Clintel

Guest Contributor

Here are three suggestions for you, the global political leaders:

  1. Depoliticize climate science, discarding computer models that do not match reality, focusing instead on real-world climate observations and the latest climate science, listening carefully to objective interventions from independent experts.
  2. Change climate policy from the senseless mitigation approach to the successful adaptation method. Mitigation is prohibitively expensive and has never saved a single human life and will do very little to alter an ever-changing climate. Adaptation, on the other hand, is affordable, can be precisely focused and has already saved millions of lives. Adaptation is without a doubt the way to go in climate policy.
  3. Invest in extending and replenishing the world’s oil & gas reserves. Be realistic, the world will still need oil and gas for several decades. In parallel, go full steam ahead with developing nuclear power, the energy source of the future.

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Millions of Americans Were Assigned ‘COVID-19 Violation’ Scores Based on Cellphone Data Collected During Lockdowns

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A voter analytics firm harvested data from millions of Americans’ cellphones during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns and used the data to assign phone users a “COVID-19 decree violation” score and a “COVID-19 concern” score, according to a whitepaper released by PredictWise, the firm that harvested the data.

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