Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Womens' Trucking Federation Canada CEO Shelley Walker at a 2023 announcement. Photo: RWN
Transportation, Colleges, Justice ministers, Northern NDP members need team approach to safety UPDATE: This article was updated at 11pm February 28th with comment from the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada, and a new photo. Newly-elected Premier Doug Ford should waste
Read More“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation” American federal bureaucrats sent into a tizzy last week by a request to explain what they do at work have been offered guidance by Trucker Jake Logan. On February 22nd, Elon
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Conservative Doug Ford; Green Party Mike Schreiner; NDP Leader Marit Stiles; Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie squared off at the Ontario Leaders' debate on February 17th. Image: CPAC
Justin Trudeau’s announcement yesterday of a High Speed Train from Toronto to Quebec City sounded like a counter-balance to Doug Ford’s $150 billion Brampton-Scarborough tunnel. It feels like we are engaged in some kind of political fantasy one-upping exercise, in
Read More“No date set at this time” in fake Trucking school trial The long-awaited sentencing hearing for Gurpreet Singh and Gurvinder Singh scheduled to occur February 14th did not take place. Road Warrior News assigned a reporter to be at the
Read MoreHistoric, unprecedented event by Donna Laframboise Page 27 of Thank You, Truckers! (Chapter 2) cites some important facts. So many Freedom Convoy trucks streamed into the city, the police traffic plan collapsed. They thought they were getting five Convoys, but a few
Read More840 solar or 16 nuclear power plants needed to meet Ottawa’s 2050 emission-reduction target (Vancouver) – The federal government’s plan to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity generation by 2050 is impossible in practical terms, finds a new study
Read More“The Music of Canadian Songwriter, Performer and Recording Artist Mike Murchison has been a lifetime in the making,” says Hansford Collins Jr. “Taken from the years and millions of miles traveled throughout the the grreat northern mountains of Canada, and
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CTV paused this surveillance camera footage a moment before the impact which killed this pedestrian crossing Wilson Avenue in Toronto. Image: CTV
Impact caught on camera, 81 year old woman dies A horrifying news clip aired by CTV on February 12 shows the moment before an 81-year-old pedestrian was hit and killed by a dump truck at a Toronto crosswalk. The clip,
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Guy Bourgouin; Lise Vaugeois; and John Vanthof all represent Northern Ontario ridings for the NDP. Image: John Vanthof
Enforcement, open scales, road maintenance, use of rail by John Vanthof, MPP Temiskaming-Cochrane Road safety has many factors, but there are issues that add disproportionately to dangerous conditions. When I was first elected, it was mainly winter maintenance. The Liberal government
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