Statistics Canada reported August 2nd that while police report that impaired driving incidents decreased across the nation in 2021 over 2020, Ontario actually reported an increase of 7 per cent.
A growing proportion of impaired driving charges (11 per cent) involve drugs, or drugs and alcohol together, rather than alcohol only.
Read MoreThe only surprise, is that anyone is surprised.
The union hand-picked by Uber to “represent” Uber workers was actually working for Uber and not the workers. Next thing you know, politicians may stretch the truth before elections.
Read MoreAn Ontario judge has ruled that employees who do dangerous work, even firefighters, cannot be forced to take random drug tests without cause or consent. The decision came on August 17, 2022, through an appeal by firefighters at the Ottawa International Airport.
A standard of reasonableness must be applied to such testing, judges Swinton, Ramsay and Kurke wrote in their decision. They evidently did not feel the standard of reasonableness had been met in this case.
Read MorePhoto: Pine Ridge Towing Supplied by DriveWise ***** In Ontario, someone is injured in a distracted-driving collision every half hour, and fatalities from collisions caused by distracted driving have doubled since 2000, making it more important than ever for drivers
Read MoreDocuments obtained by Taxi News through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request indicate that the number of PTC drivers still driving in 2021 is as low as 7 or 8 per cent, as indicated in the FOI text and the charts below.
Read MoreToronto’s Integrity Commissioner Jonathan Batty has announced that he does not have enough time to complete his investigation into Mayor John Tory before the upcoming election. This means investigation will have to be suspended until after the election is completed.
Read MoreThe media release below was posted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Reforms on August 10, 2022 ***** The Justice Centre today released a new Report on the real and growing threat of digital ID technologies in Canada. This report, entitled Canada’s Road
Read MoreTime should be the essence of a driver training program, the City of Toronto appears to have determined.
In deciding whether or not to honour the 3754 certificates printed and paid for by Vehicle for Hire (VFH) drivers who took the Toronto-approved DRVRhub on-line course, Licensing staff are informing registrants that this certificate will be honoured if they took longer than three hours to complete the program.
Slower test takers, who took longer than three hours to complete the program, will be eligible to be approved for a VFH license with the DRVRhub certificate.
Faster test takers, those who completed the program in less than three hours, cannot use their DRVRhub certificates as proof of training and will be required to take another approved course.
Read MoreBorden Ladner Gervais LLP – Maude Galarneau, Patrick Trent and Samuel Roy Context In the fall of 2021, Canada’s minister of transport issued by ministerial orders a mandatory vaccination requirement for federally regulated marine, air and rail transportation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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