Canadian Auto Workers members voted 86 percent in favor of a cost-cutting deal with General Motors Canada as the automaker bids to qualify for more government loans and assure its future in Canada.
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As more and more people learn of bill C-2, the law designated to take the popular term “Smoke & Fly” under attack is once again evolving. Last week media outlets have reported, that the Centre of Forensic Services, in charge would not be taking on their testing duties under the new legislation.

The CFS claimed that the labs would be overloaded, much like Ontario’s justice system.

The memo read as follows “As the projected workload will exceed current capabilities, the (CFS) will immediately discontinue acceptance of all submissions related to the Drug Evaluation and Classification program until the necessary capabilities are developed,”

The CFS did a complete turn-around yesterday and issued another statement.

“We have revisited our response to the impact of the Bill C-2 legislation,” director Dr. Ray Prime mentioned yesterday. Noted that the CFS “will accept samples that are taken under the provisions of Bill C-2.”

The first man charged in Ontario with driving drug impaired is a 20-year old from Keswick. He has been apprehended on Sunday by South Simcoe police.

This evening I’ve had the opportunity to travel the 401 and 400 highways extensively.  It never fails to amaze me, how the Ontario government is just out to get the general public in terms of issuing speeding tickets.  It also never ceases to amaze me how the general public generally discounts such charge and continues to speed.

I was moving with the flow of traffic roughly 20km/h above the posted 100 speed limit, while I was observing vehicles on my left whizzing by roughly 15-20km/h more then what I was doing.  That would make it 140km/h.  I’ve also had a chance to observe the O.P.P. cruisers pull over a number of speeders.  The majority of speeders were in either minivans or SUV’s.  This would contradict the statement that the general speeders are mostly younger or teenage people.  Therefore, it is fair to say that the insurance companies that have been taking advantage of this misconception of  the younger drivers being more careless, owe us an apology. I’d love to get involved in a class action lawsuit against insurance companies for unfair business practices and discrimination based on age….