“Summer hasn’t been very good for collisions,” Travis McDougall notes in his August video post. “We’ve got trucks in the ditch, trucks crashing into each other, trucks all over the highways. Whether it’s down in southern Ontario or up in
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On August 17th, the Gordie Howe International Bridge project team announced the reopening of the fourth and final road bridge reconstructed as part of the Michigan Interchange activities. “We appreciate the community’s patience and cooperation throughout construction of the Gordie Howe International
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The “fake Trucking schools” criminal case appears to be headed for trial in the Superior Court of Justice (SCJ) in November, 2024.
While some administrative details remain to be worked out, Crown Attorney Julian Whitten pointed out, “We have over a year to get that together.”
“We have lots of time,” Justice H.W. Carl deJong agreed. He assigned the date of October 4th, 2023 for a return date for all of the lawyers to return and “get everything in order for SCJ.”
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After waits and delays amounting to 16 months, the trial scheduled for several men charged with operating fake Trucking schools is expected to begin this morning, August 16th.
However, as has been seen in past sessions, delays requested by counsel for the accused men resulted in postponement to new dates. On June 7th, when defendents’ counsel and the crown attorney L. Welch presented before the justice, August 15th was selected as the start date for the trial; however, on August 14th, Road Warrior News was informed by court staff that the start date is now August 16th.
Court proceedings have been ongoing for more than a year since the charges were laid. When another delay was requested at the May 24th, 2023 proceedings, Crown Attorney L. Welch noted, “This file is already pretty old.”
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As noted when we posted the July collection, Mike Murchison is a professional Truck driver living in Alberta who has spent decades driving around the western United States and Canada. Mike pauses to appreciate vast landscapes as well as the
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“To see people dying alone and families unable to have proper funerals was horrible. Horrible” by Donna Laframboise New Brunswick trucker Travis Macleod hauls sea cans – containers that get loaded directly onto ships docked in the Port of Saint
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Your name could be printed in Tom Marazzo’s new book, “The People’s Emergency Act: Freedom Convoy 2022.”
Freedom Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo’s new book is getting ready to go to print. His team has committed to print in the book a list of the names of the donors making the print edition possible; there is still time to have your name included in the book.
“We’re planning to print a list of donors in the book,” Marazzo says. “If you’d like to see your name in print and have not donated as yet, you still have until Friday, August 11th. We would be most grateful for your contribution. There’s a ‘donate button’ on the website.”
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During the three weeks Mark and his truck spent in Ottawa, the parking tickets and small acts of vandalism were minor matters. Wife Joanne describes him as a laidback guy who doesn’t talk much about feelings. But as they texted back and forth during those weeks, she says, he told her about the tears and the gratitude. People kept thanking him for taking a stand. “He said the love that was there, it was just unbelievable.”
Regular people would come by his truck offering submarine sandwiches and fried chicken. An Asian woman, Mark says, “was bringing us down Chinese food all the time. And Tim Horton’s. I don’t drink coffee myself, but they’d be bringing wagons full.” At random times of day, strangers would ask if he needed fuel. “Yeah, I’ll take it.”
After the police started cracking down on fuel deliveries, folks got more creative:
You hear the expression “transferable skills” here and there. In the work world it basically means something to the effect of taking whatever you learned in your previous job(s) and seeing what fits with the new endeavor. An old dog
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