On January 7, 2021, Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney announced that Ontario would invest in Rest Stops. “The Ontario government is improving 14 existing truck rest areas, building 10 new rest areas and adding 178 additional truck parking spaces at four
Read More
Northern Ontario saw such egregious accidents involving commercial trucks over the March 17th weekend, NDP member Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay-Superior North) sponsored a press conference to call upon Ontario to address persistent safety issues including road conditions and driver training.
Read More
NDP MPP John Vanthof (Timiskaming–Cochrane) opened his remarks on March 22nd by offering condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in commercial vehicle accidents on the weekend of March 17th.
Read More
“A 75-year-old from Ignace has been identified as the victim
in this morning’s collision east of Dryden.
The Dryden and Ignace OPP say they responded to the collision on
Highway 17 near Camp Lake Road
involving a tractor-trailer unit and a snowplow.
The OPP says the driver of the tractor-trailer unit
did not receive any injuries,
and highway 17 remains closed.
The identity of the 75-year-old from Ignace was not released.
The Special Committee hearing on interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Canadian elections heard last night that such interference has been long-standing and highly organized.
Gloria Fung of the Canada-Hong Kong link testified that the CCP broke Elections Canada laws regularly over the years, paying volunteers to help preferred candidates and making illegal campaigns donations. Illegal donations were fairly easy to track, Fung said, “because the numbers came with decimal points. They had been made in a foreign currency.”
Read More
Dutch farmers, inspired by Canadian Truckers, surprised the world and shocked the sitting government by winning provincial elections on March 16. Photo: Patriot Smoothie, Facebook The newly-formed Farmers’ party has stunned Dutch politics, and is set to be the biggest
Read More
“Stories from the Road,” Taylor’s memoir about driving long-haul trucks across North America maintains steady sales on Amazon as both a print book and audiobook.
Friends and family members loved Taylor’s stories around the campfire so much, they convinced him to write the stories in a book. Image: Friesen Press
This anecdote, published as part of RWN’s original review of the book in 2022, remain
Ted and Sally (not their real names) leave Saskatoon on Monday in a bobtail truck with two large Canadian flags streaming behind them. The side of their cab is decorated with red maple leaves and the words: “True North Strong & Free” – a phrase from Canada’s national anthem.
They head southeast toward the city of Regina. Normally a two-and-a-half-hour drive, this first leg of their journey is a piece of cake. The highway is called the Louis Riel Trail – named for a rebel hanged by the Canadian government in 1885. Viewed heroically by many then and now, considered a symbol of “strength and resistance,” 122 years after his death the next door province of Manitoba declared Louis Riel Day a paid holiday.
Read More
Photo: Mike Murchison A note from David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail “Revelations from the author of this opinion piece formed the backbone of our news stories that there is foreign interference in our political system at all
Read More