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Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road” available on Audible – make Christmas shopping easy

Don Taylor’s book “Stories from the Road” is officially now available on Audible.

The stories – which are in turn hilarious, absorbing and shocking – got started as stories told around a campfire during fun times with family and friends. So many friends urged Taylor to write them down, eventually he did. The result is a fun, interesting book which was easy to read, but now even easier to listen to as the audio version has just been released on Audible.

Click the link below for a four minute sample of Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road.”

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On the Road with Mike MurchisonOpinion/ColumnTrucking

Wrap your hands around a steering wheel, or a copy of the Canadian constitution: the choice is yours

I have heard the term “segregation” my whole life; I never fully identified with it until I was refused use of washrooms in truck stops in Northern Ontario, or made to stand out in the cold at a drive-through window at a fast-food joint. Standing in the drive-through lane with cars, I felt very out of place. Segregated.

  For a while, certain places wouldn’t handle my cash because I travel for a living. Restaurants closed, or downsized to “take-out only” service. I was eating out of paper bags while working and sleeping for days on the road: in the summer heat, and frigid cold of winter.

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Public Order Commission deletes footage of lawyer collapsing at November 9 hearing

Perhaps Mr. Poliquin’s collapse had nothing to do with any COVID shot he ever received. Maybe it did. Whatever the circumstance, the Commission has an obligation to Canadians to deliver the truth, the whole truth, as soon as the truth becomes available.

Canada is investing millions of dollars and thousands of hours of time into this “Public Order Emergency Commission.” Editing the website video footage without informing viewers the footage has been edited risks having this expensive Commission be perceived as dishonest and disingenuous.

Frighteningly, Poliquin’s collapse was eerily reminiscent of the video compilations we’ve recently viewed, showing athletes collapsing on sports fields, performers keeling over onstage, and news presenters collapsing live on air. There have been hundreds of them, always of a perfectly healthy human being busy doing something they do every day, collapsing to the ground and in too many unfortunate cases, dying.

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