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I had always loved driving, and mom once told me the only car seat she could put me in where I wouldn’t cry was one with a steering wheel. I, of course, have no memory of this. I started driving taxi not thinking of it as a start to a trucking career. Instead, I just figured it would do until “something better comes along.” It would be nine years of “making do” before I made the jump to being a full-time truck driver.

Before he was a writer, and before he was a Truck driver, Don Taylor earned his living as a Taxi driver at Roach’s Taxi in Thunder Bay.

My test drive with Roach’s was with one of their big commercial customers, mainly to see how I’d treat the vehicle on rough roads. The owner’s brother was the road tester, meaning, of course, that I was gentle with the car.

RWN is grateful to citizen journalists like Patriot Smoothie and the Democracy Fund for giving permission for us to share their coverage, in the absence of any livestream from the Barber/Lich trial.

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Day #16 Barber/Lich: could this misdemeanor trial drag into 2024?

October 14, 2023 Guest Contributor

Image: TFSH

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Truckers’ petition has November 15th deadline

October 13, 2023 RWN Staff

Truckers for Safer Highways have worked with federal Member of Parliament Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre) to petition Canada’s Transport Minister for improved training and enforcement standards in commercial trucking. “We have 120 days to get 500 signatures, in order for

Citizen journalist Patriot Smoothie. Photo: YouTube

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Barber/Lich Trial Day #15 summary – Ottawa residents get their day in court

October 13, 2023 Guest Contributor

"Street food" during the Freedom Convoy. Photo supplied by Sandra

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Miracles from nothing during Freedom Convoy

October 8, 2023 Guest Contributor

Pots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless

Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation Photo: Twitter

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Day #3 BC trial: security threat closes court room, police onsite

October 7, 2023 RWN Staff

The British Columbia COVID vaccine exemption trial was disrupted on October 6th by a “security threat” which saw police arrive to evacuate the court room. “It was pretty disappointing in that I travelled all the way to BC for this

NDP member John Vanthof Image: Ontario Parliamentary Channel

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Driver training, winter conditions on Ontario highways: MPP Vanthof asks what Ford government is doing

October 6, 2023 RWN Staff

Asked about commercial Trucking training, government commits to providing passenger rail service On October 3rd, NDP MP John Vanthof rose in Ontario’s Parliament to ask what Ontario is doing to make sure Truck driver training prepares drivers for road conditions

Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation Photo: Twitter

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Historic BC court case on COVID vaccine exemptions, Day #2 Summary

October 6, 2023 RWN Staff

In what appears to be one of the most confusing public health defenses ever put forward, the British Columbia government is arguing that because it was not actually enforcing its own public guidelines, but was actually working according to other,

Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation provides an update on the BC vaccine passport trial October 4th, 2023. Image: YouTube

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BC vaccine challenge case will go ahead

October 5, 2023 Rita Smith

Government claimed case was “moot” – court disagrees, CCF case will be heard A British Columbia has court rejected the government’s claim that the case against its COVID vaccine passport regime is “moot” and should not be heard. The case,