Several Towing industry exemptions under the CVOR program are being removed as of January 1, 2023. Photo: Google images Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation recently informed industry members of regulatory changes which will affect the Towing sector in 2023. “In June
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Dan McTeaugue, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy by Dan McTeague Doug Ford came to power in Ontario promising to fight the disastrous green policies of the McGuinty-Wynne Liberals. Remember the so-called Green Energy Act? Under the influence of Gerald
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The five inconvenient facts as outlined are:
Even if everyone drove an electric car, it would hardly make a dent in the fossil fuels we use.
Electric cars are not very “green.” Only 12 per cent of fuels used to charge electric cars comes from wind and solar power; the other 88 per cent is still generated by burning fossil fuels.
Mining requirements are massive: we must mine about 500,000 pounds of minerals and rock to obtain the materials required to manufacture one battery. It would take the world’s battery factories 400 years to build the $100 trillion dollars worth of batteries needed to heat Europe for one winter.
Fossil fuels are a much more efficient way to store energy than batteries: it takes a 1,000-pound battery to store as much energy stored in 80 pounds of fossil fuel.
When there is not enough electricity to both charge vehicles and power homes, there will be rationing.
Parliamentary Press Gallery executives accompanied by armed police on Friday evicted Blacklock’s. All questions were referred to a House of Commons employee. Blacklock’s said the eviction, first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was clear reprisal over its continued protests against media subsidies.
Eviction followed Gallery president Guillaume St-Pierre’s threat to “terminate” Blacklock’s membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock’s managing editor Tom Korski was “impolite,” “disturbs the journalists around him” and “streams parliamentary committee hearings on his computer.”
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Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released Ontario’s 2022 report on November 30, making special note of highway building funds which were apparently re-prioritized by the Minister’s office.
The Attorney General’s 2022 audit found the Transportation Ministry deferred six projects in 2019 and funnelled the money to four highway projects as directed by the minister’s office — “even though these projects were ranked as a lower priority by the ministry’s technical and engineering staff” the report illustrates in Figure 12a, “Expansion Prioritization Framework.”
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In a last-ditch effort to hold the City of Toronto accountable for the safety of all road users, Beck Taxi is taking the municipal government to court.
The application maintains that the City has failed in its mandate to create and implement regulations that protect public safety by allowing thousands of untrained commercial drivers to fill our streets. Prior to 2016, taxicab drivers were required to receive extensive training as a condition to drive. The training covered safe driving, the Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), geography, driver safety, and customer service.
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Photo: Tom McKenzie/Twitter Hear that in Beijing, China @JustinTrudeau? Sounds like the universal language of freedom. #HonkHonk https://t.co/zudSk6jJ4S — Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) November 29, 2022 The column below, “What Trudeau really feared about the convoy was its organizing abilities”
Read More Citizens protesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are rioting in the streets and fighting with police. Residents are infuriated with the government’s Zero Covid Policy, which saw officials barricade apartment dwellers in their buildings even as one caught fire, with 33 deaths reported in the inferno.
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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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