
Disturbing though it was, I have to admit that a rush of reluctant admiration swept through me while watching the video. There are many who can sympathize with his anti-gas-pump stance.
Gas pumps are bossy, demanding monsters. In the struggle between man and machine, they are the undefeated champions.
Who hasn’t wanted to take a swing at one?
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When they were unleashed on the province in early February, a spokesman for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services declared the new plates were “stronger, brighter and longer lasting than the current Ontario licence plate.”
Shortly thereafter, however, Kingston Police Sgt. Steve Koopman tweeted a photograph of a vehicle parked with a barely discernible license plate.
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Everyone should know that the best way to navigate an intersection when the lights are out is to treat it like a four-way stop. The law, at least in Ontario, says that drivers are to treat lights out as an “uncontrolled intersection.” Yield to the vehicles that are already there. Yield to the vehicle on the right if you both arrive at the same time. You don’t have to stop but you should. It’s easier and safer.
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It’s a busy time of year. People are out taking care of errands. Some are preparing for the holidays. On this particular day, there were no open parking spaces. Desperate drivers roamed the lot hoping to find one. Instead, however, they were treated to…
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Where my writing began. Westboro – nihilistic 1980s dystopia
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Talking politics – Trudeau, Conservative leadership race, Trump and bad Christmas car commercials with Anthony Furey and John Oakley. Sound and the Fury.
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I talked about Andrew Scheer’s sudden departure today with the Toronto Sun’s Anthony Furey and Alex Pierson on AM640.
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My favourite pub in London is The Sun in Splendour. My Great Grandfather Frank Young lived down the street as a young man and he would have frequented it on occasion.
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If you’re looking for traits to bind us – from British Columbia to Newfoundland – look no further than our capacity to complain about the weather during every one of our four seasons and our collective astonishment each November when temperatures plummet and snow falls
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Why is parallel parking part of every province’s driver’s test? Is it nostalgia? Is it a throwback to our time as a colony? That is, after all, why parallel parking was put in the test in the first place. Canadian driver’s exams were originally…
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A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
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