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Unreasonable random drug testing, even in dangerous jobs, rejected by Ontario court

An Ontario judge has ruled that employees who do dangerous work, even firefighters, cannot be forced to take random drug tests without cause or consent. The decision came on August 17, 2022, through an appeal by firefighters at the Ottawa International Airport.

A standard of reasonableness must be applied to such testing, judges Swinton, Ramsay and Kurke wrote in their decision. They evidently did not feel the standard of reasonableness had been met in this case.

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A reckoning has to come on energy prices, says Dan McTeague

I can’t help but think of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the vivid and illustrative scenes of pigs at the trough, all on the public purse, liars and hypocrites all, telling us how they know best while living off the avails of taxation.  

But this is the new better world of a “Just Transition” – and the elites are advocating for it all the way to the bank. 

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