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Police identify unlicensed B.C. man as motorcyclist in 300 km/h YouTube video

Posted April 19th, 2012 by Allan W Janssen

Josh Visser Police say they have identified the rider of a motorcycle who uploaded a video of himself to YouTube travelling at speeds close to 300 kilometres an hour, while weaving in and out of traffic on a busy highway outside of Victoria, B.C. The rider is thought to be a 25-year-old man, who is [...]

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General

The Case for Permanent Free Public Transit

Posted March 19th, 2012 by Miles

HALIFAX—Public transit will be running again in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) this week, and until the end of March transit users will enjoy unlimited free rides on buses and ferries.
Metro Transit…

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Cars

Mayor Ford ends the ‘war on the car’ and starts one against motorists

Posted December 9th, 2011 by rabble staff

Don Cherry has a lesson to teach Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Cherry has spent a career promoting the hockey fighter, sometimes known as the enforcer or goon. The problem is that the science of brain injuries has caught up with (and passed) his assertion th…

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Canadians willing to pay road tolls!

Posted November 21st, 2011 by Allan W Janssen

By Amber Hildebrandt, CBC News Half of Canadians surveyed in an online poll conducted exclusively for CBC News by Leger Marketing said they would be willing to pay road tolls if it would ease gridlock and shorten their commute. Road tolls have long been a taboo topic for many politicians, but it appears Canadians are [...]

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Education

Why Kids Don’t Walk To School

Posted November 15th, 2011 by Arya M. Sharma, MD

For today’s kids, walking or biking to school has become the exception rather than the rule.
A study by Anna Price and colleagues, published in the Journal of School Health, now explores the perceptions of school administrators in South Carolina regarding the factors that influence childrens’ active travel to school.
According to their survey of 314 school [...]

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Perspective On Canada

Take this train and shove it!

Posted August 18th, 2011 by Site Administrator

I try not to get too invoved in Toronto politics since I moved away in the early seventies, but let me make a few quick observations in light of Mayor Ford’s quest to get people moving in the city again. If it wasn’t for all the left wing socialist’s and tree-hugger interference over the last forty years Toronto would [...]

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