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The truth about demerit points: how they work, and how they are applied

Demerit points are added to your driver’s licence, if you are convicted of breaking certain driving laws. The rules are different depending on if you are a new driver or have a full licence. This information will explain how the demerit points system works.

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Hand-bombing a necessary evil in Trucking

At first, I did very little driving, mostly I was hand-bombing goods all day.

Hand-bombing (also known as “finger printing”) involves manually unloading trailers. There are many reasons why this task exists.

Grocery warehouses, for example, store products by size, type and weight. If the warehouse orders, 34 cases of salmon-flavoured cat food in 5 oz cans, 54 cases of 7 oz cans, and another 100 cases in 10 oz cans, the plant where they make the cat food places it all on a single pallet. Once it arrives at the warehouse, it must be separated to allow each pallet to contain only one size and flavour.

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Canada’s constitution “does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators” Galati says

Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati argued that forced COVID-19 vaccines are an important matter of public interest and must be considered by Canada’s courts. Galati was presenting by Zoom on Tuesday, May 31st in Vancouver’s Supreme Court room. “The Constitution does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators,” said Galati, whose father was imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist government in Italy during World War II.

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Rocco Galati in BC court today to oppose “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional” COVID actions

On Tuesday May 31, 2022 at 10:00am PDT, attorney Rocco Galati is set to address the defendant’s Motion to Strike via Zoom in its case against the British Columbia and Canadian governments.

Galati represents Action4Canada in its response to legislation enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Action4Canada maintains that the legislation undermines Canada’s Constitution, the Charter, and Canadian democratic values.

Government actions, Galati says, have been “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional.”

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