Is the sun setting on the Canadian Way?
Never thought I would see the price of a loaf of bread cost seven dollars. Nor did I imagine ground beef upwards of ten dollars per pound.
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Trucking
“I assumed this was a joke; it’s not” – study claims unvaxxed involved in more accidents
When I first saw articles covering the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study this week linking vaccine status with vehicle accidents rates, I thought I was reading a satirical parody from the Beaverton or the Babylon Bee.
But no – these were genuine articles, published by serious players like Sunnybrook Hospital and CTV. It’s really hard to view the straight-up news coverage without laughing, or vomiting.
The gist of all the words boils down to the idea that unvaccinated people cause more traffic accidents, likely because people who ignore government demands to get vaccinated are likely to ignore the rules of road, too.
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This graphic released January 7, 2021, indicates Rest Area scheduled to be created or refurbished by the Province of Ontario.
Progress on Rest Stops: more coming, more needed
The map above, released in January 2021, indicates proposed locations for Ontario’s new, expanded and refurbished rest areas for Truckers. Image: MTO Following their December 9 meeting with Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation staff, Truckers for Safer Highways’ (DFSH) Travis McDougall
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Truckers for Safer Highways has complained on numerous occasions about the number of weigh scales which remain closed across the Trans-Canada highway. Image: TFSH
76 new enforcement officers, 10 new rest areas, updating MELT curriculum topics at MTO meeting with Truckers for Safer Highways
This closed weigh scale in Serpent River is a typical sight in Northern Ontario: “I can drive from the Manitoba border to North Bay and never see an open scale,” says Travis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways, who says
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New Towing regulations for 2023 outlined
Several Towing industry exemptions under the CVOR program are being removed as of January 1, 2023. Photo: Google images Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation recently informed industry members of regulatory changes which will affect the Towing sector in 2023. “In June
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Everybody wants what’s on the Truck, but nobody wants the Truck parking anywhere
In my last article I discussed the federal government’s desire to start levying fines on drivers for violating the Hours-of-Service rules (HOS). Now I’m not an expert on what branch of government handles what and how they work together. Nor do I know the intricate details of how our tax dollars once collected get dispersed once they are collected. But I do have some ideas I’d like to offer on how drivers can comply with the HOS rules and how the different branches of government can help.
We have established that there is a shortage of rest areas, safe havens and just plain acceptable places for drivers to pull into to take their breaks and rest areas.
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Canada on the insane path of getting off hydrocarbons despite affordability, performance
Dan McTeaugue, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy by Dan McTeague Doug Ford came to power in Ontario promising to fight the disastrous green policies of the McGuinty-Wynne Liberals. Remember the so-called Green Energy Act? Under the influence of Gerald
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Inconvenient facts about electric cars: politicians make us pay more to hurt the environment
The five inconvenient facts as outlined are:
Even if everyone drove an electric car, it would hardly make a dent in the fossil fuels we use.
Electric cars are not very “green.” Only 12 per cent of fuels used to charge electric cars comes from wind and solar power; the other 88 per cent is still generated by burning fossil fuels.
Mining requirements are massive: we must mine about 500,000 pounds of minerals and rock to obtain the materials required to manufacture one battery. It would take the world’s battery factories 400 years to build the $100 trillion dollars worth of batteries needed to heat Europe for one winter.
Fossil fuels are a much more efficient way to store energy than batteries: it takes a 1,000-pound battery to store as much energy stored in 80 pounds of fossil fuel.
When there is not enough electricity to both charge vehicles and power homes, there will be rationing.
Blacklock’s evicted by police from Canada’s parliament
Parliamentary Press Gallery executives accompanied by armed police on Friday evicted Blacklock’s. All questions were referred to a House of Commons employee. Blacklock’s said the eviction, first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was clear reprisal over its continued protests against media subsidies.
Eviction followed Gallery president Guillaume St-Pierre’s threat to “terminate” Blacklock’s membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock’s managing editor Tom Korski was “impolite,” “disturbs the journalists around him” and “streams parliamentary committee hearings on his computer.”
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