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Mulroney returns as Ontario’s Transportation Minister, Bethlenfalvy returns to Finance

RWN Staff

The Honourable Caroline Mulroney has been returned to her position as Minister of Transportation and Minister of Francophone Affairs.

On June 24th, Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled his new cabinet with the team tasked with deliver government’s ambitious agenda to build the infrastructure including highways, transit and the road to the Ring of Fire.

With the Honourable Peter Bethlenfalvy returning as Finance Minister, this means that transportation industry members hoping for government to adopt new policies around highway safety and vehicle insurance will continue working the same ministers as before the June 2nd election.

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Vehicle for Hire fully online training: the short answers (and the long ones, too)

Rita Smith

Concerns were raised by Taxi News and industry members on just how easy it will be for people in a rush to certify drivers to circumvent even the most minimal requirements of an online program with no identification requirement. We sent four questions to Toronto’s Media Office staff, who obtained answers from Licensing and Standards.

In this opinion column, I am providing every word sent to me by L&S staff through the Media Office (scroll down to “Full Text”) and also an editted version which removes the “bumpf” wordage and cuts to what I see as the most pertinent points.

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COVID UPDATE: What is the truth?

Guest Contributor

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3,6,57] We have witnessed a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts, destruction of medical careers among doctors refusing to participate in killing their patients and a massive regimentation of health care, led by non-qualified individuals with enormous wealth, power and influence.

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