Photo: “Heavy Lifting” by Mike Murchison The industry will be celebrating National Trucking Week in CanadaSeptember 4-10, 2022; and National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (NTDAW) in the U.S.September 11-17, 2022. The first official National Truck Driver Appreciation Week was held
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Ontario is poised to review its new rideshare regulations without any winter experience to consider. Photo: Mike Murchison
It goes without saying that as much as many of us love hitting the highway to feel the motion, see the view out the windshield, there’s a good reason why music and truckers go together like a tapping foot and a floorboard. They are two ingredients that are needed to help move industry and keep a nation stocked.
Read MoreStatistics Canada reported August 2nd that while police report that impaired driving incidents decreased across the nation in 2021 over 2020, Ontario actually reported an increase of 7 per cent.
A growing proportion of impaired driving charges (11 per cent) involve drugs, or drugs and alcohol together, rather than alcohol only.
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MorePhoto: Pine Ridge Towing Supplied by DriveWise ***** In Ontario, someone is injured in a distracted-driving collision every half hour, and fatalities from collisions caused by distracted driving have doubled since 2000, making it more important than ever for drivers
Read MoreThe media release below was posted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Reforms on August 10, 2022 ***** The Justice Centre today released a new Report on the real and growing threat of digital ID technologies in Canada. This report, entitled Canada’s Road
Read MoreThe comfort of being home, and the pain of being away, provides the framework for “Home,” the new Extended Play (EP) music set from the East Coast Experience.
Read MoreBorden Ladner Gervais LLP – Maude Galarneau, Patrick Trent and Samuel Roy Context In the fall of 2021, Canada’s minister of transport issued by ministerial orders a mandatory vaccination requirement for federally regulated marine, air and rail transportation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreI 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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