“Ontario has the safest roads in all of North America” is a vague and inaccurate statement Traffic statistics are a complicated, challenging area in which to make bold statements or simple comparisons. You could be referring to Canadian or American
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This is HUGE 30 000 people and 4000 tractors blocked the center of Berlin in the farmers protest today. đźšśđźšśđźšśpic.twitter.com/XQL3h3BvNp — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 15, 2024 Whoa. German farmers have blockaded the warehouses of mega-corporations like Aldi, Amazon, and Lidl.
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Insurers welcome supplementary training January 15, 2024 — Ontario’s first “Heavy-G” class driver training program has been launched by the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) and Driver Verified. The new program has been designed to meet the needs
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“Sometimes I still miss that car” by Hans Wienhold Bought it for $350. It was a 1969 Pontiac Parisienne. I put 6,000 miles on it in the summer of 1979. In retrospect, that was a bit of a miracle. By
Read MoreEchoes of Canada’s Freedom Convoy Reports from Germany indicate that residents and volunteers are organizing themselves to provide meals to protesting Farmers, Truckers and others in Berlin and elsewhere. During Canada’s Freedom Convoy in February 2022, then-MPP Rick Nicholls pointed
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September 2025 new completion date Windsor, Ontario • The Gordie Howe International Bridge project team has announced a 10-month delay in the structure’s opening, with a new completion and opening timeline. Construction completion is planned for September 2025; the first vehicles
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New program saves $400,000, “improves patient experience” Two years after the program started, Taxi support for Niagara Region’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has functioned without a single Adverse Patient Outcome, says its founding commander. “It is not a statistic we
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Activist and citizen journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek reports that additional groups of workers are joining the German farmers in their protests against government fossil fuel policies: “On top of the farmers’ protests, the train drivers have now gone on strike for
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Uber says it doesn’t “materially change the law” On January 9th, the Biden administration enacted a new labor rule which aims to prevent the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors.” “Misclassifying employees as independent contractors is a serious issue that
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