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Category: Featured

January 25, 2020
Broken traffic lights — terrible driving

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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January 2, 2020
One Car. Two Spaces.

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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December 20, 2019
Apocalypse Whenever

Where my writing began. Westboro – nihilistic 1980s dystopia

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December 19, 2019
Issues? Conservatives? Christmas?

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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December 12, 2019
Andrew Scheer Resignation

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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November 21, 2019
The Sun in Splendour

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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panda playing with snow
November 21, 2019
Winter Driving Quiz

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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November 14, 2019
Should we drop the parallel-parking from driver’s exam?

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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November 14, 2019
The Execution of Private Harold Pringle

I spoke about the execution of Harold Pringle on the John Oakley Show. His story remains sad and tragic.

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Man walking on winter sidewalk
October 2, 2019
A modest proposal: Let funeral homes sponsor crosswalks

Judging by how drivers treat crosswalks, it not hard to see why the trend is continuing. Recently, an 11-year-old student in Edmonton filmed traffic at the crosswalk she has to use to get to school. The video shows a stream of trucks and SUVs gliding through, oblivious to the children trying to cross. We’ve all seen drivers ignore the flashing lights, or pause for a moment and then plow through when the pedestrian has cleared their bumper (even though the law dictates they must stop until the pedestrian has reach the opposite curb).

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