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The blockade at Coutts, Alberta in February 2022. Photo: True North
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Multiple fines dropped against 14 Coutts truckers

Guest Contributor

Charges have been dropped against 14 Freedom Convoy truckers who participated in the Coutts, Alberta protest last year. 

In February 2022, protesters blocked the Canada-US border in Coutts to protest Covid-19 restrictions like vaccine mandates. The demonstration lasted around two weeks until the RCMP discovered weapons after executing a search warrant. 

Fourteen truckers were charged with parking violations, but all were exonerated after The Democracy Fund’s (TDF) lawyer pointed out that the law in question did not apply to vehicles parked in an urban area.

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No one wants to work anymore

Mike Murchison

Can’t find anybody to work. Or no one wants to work anymore. It’s a common thread. Not just where I live, but seemingly every place I travel.

I cover Alberta and the Northwest US states, and this discussion has crossed my table a lot. Employers can’t find anyone to work.

 I’m sure there are a variant of factors involved. The wage that’s being offered, the hours as well as the expectations. Tie that into the cost of living and you might just have a perfect storm brewing.

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Speakers list for the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Heavy Duty Truck emissions reductions rules online hearing May 2nd. Image: EPA
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Rules for electric trucks while electric infrastructure does not yet exist make no sense: Truck and Engine Manufacturers

Rita Smith

The EPA’s virtual public hearings for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking took place on May 2 and 3, 2023. On a Speakers’ list packed full of representatives from the Lung

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Chop Shop busted by police. Photo: WPAB
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Car stolen every 48 minutes in Ontario

RWN Staff

In Ontario, a car is stolen every 48 minutes. From 2014 to 2021, there was a 72 per cent increase in auto theft across the province, and a 14 per cent increase in the last year alone.

The Ontario government has announced it is fighting auto theft by investing $51 million in new measures to help police identify and dismantle organized crime networks and put thieves behind bars. The funding will support first-of-its kind auto theft prosecution teams to investigate and prosecute criminal organizations that profit from stolen vehicles.

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Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman provided a detailed overview of what goes into writing an Emergency Plan for fire, flood, terror attack or pandemic. "They burned all the plans for COVID," he told the NCI. Image: NCI
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Former Canadian Armed Forces, Emergency Management Officer slams Canada’s COVID response

Rita Smith

13 provincial plans, federal plans written, shared, updated regularly by professionals were tossed aside during COVID, Lt. Col. (Ret.) David Redman tells the NCI Plans developed by Canada’s best professional Emergency Management Officers (EMOs) were discarded at the start of

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Striking PSAC workers "take" the Portage Bridge on April 28th. Photo: Rob Primo, Twitter
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Striking workers “take” the Portage Bridge in Ottawa; no riot cops, police horses in sight

RWN Staff

The ongoing occupation of Wellington Street and other parts of downtown Ottawa by striking Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) workers is providing a source of ironic humour on social media. “PSAC is taking the Confederation Bridge!” reports “Far Right

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Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer's bill to overturn stringent new EPA regulations for heavy duty trucks passed 50-49 in the Senate on April 26. Image: fischer.senate.gov
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US Senate overturns new EPA emissions rules in 50-49 vote

RWN Staff

The Senate passed U.S. Senator Deb Fischer’s (R-Neb.) legislation to overturn President Biden’s aggressive EPA regulation on heavy-duty vehicle emissions by a vote of 50-49 on April 26. Fischer said the regulation would devastate the trucking industry, raise costs for consumers,

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