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I’ve been sporadic for the past 6 weeks to concentrate on obtaining my trucker’s licence.  Being in the transportation business for 20 years in the GTA, I’ve always had an interest in stories like this:

A transport truck loaded with garbage collided with another semi carrying 2,000 cans of paint, creating a fiery, toxic mess on a Highway 401 bridge near Yonge. St. before yesterday’s morning rush hours. The reverberations were felt throughout the commuting day across Greater Toronto.

I drive over the roadway in question daily, and have often commented that this section has been neglected for a couple of years now, mainly because it is a long bridge, and resurfacing has been delayed, presumably, in order to wait for a complete rebuild of the bridge.  That delay has caused numerous minor accidents, and a few major ones.  Clearly, the government should be held responsible for this mess, as the truck line in question has commented.

Gordon Haw, a spokesman for Wilson Logistics is insisting the driver of the trash rig was not fatigued.  He tells 680News his company has filed notice with the Ministry of Transportation claiming the state of disrepair of the road was in fact what led to the crash with the paint truck.

By the way, I’ll plug Professional Truck Driving School of Brampton.  Omar and Gerry are great teachers, and very accomodating of varied schedules.

How could anyone even think of warehousing their infant after reading this?

A baby boy’s death at an understaffed Queens day care center last month was ruled a homicide Friday, doubly tragic because he was killed while illegally left alone with two older children, city officials said.

Oldtimers like Downing lament the good old days when Toronto was clean and efficient.

Many feel betrayed, frustrated and embarrassed, annoyed that one day they had really looked at their streets and found that underneath the familiarity, they were frayed. Just how did the city’s face become so blotched?

Mark says polygamists may be coming sooner than you think – and our government won’t be able to do anything to stop it.  Thanks again, PET.

The better advocates of gay marriage are an ingenious crowd, full of artful arguments to support their claim.

Two entries, one here and another here, from the indispensable Little Green Footballs. With so many passages in the Koran sanctioning the terrorists’ head rolling strategy, it’s clear that the enemy is all around us.  Scary stuff, especially the way the mainstream media whitewashes the enemy’s whole agenda to destroy the Christian/secular West.

The BBC says Arabs are ambivalent over hostage crisis, but read the article and you’ll see that this is an absurd understatement.

In a phone poll on Al Jazeera, 93% supported the kidnapping and murder of infidels.

Two entries, one here and another here, from the indispensable Little Green Footballs. With so many passages in the Koran sanctioning the terrorists’ head rolling strategy, it’s clear that the enemy is all around us.  Scary stuff, especially the way the mainstream media whitewashes the enemy’s whole agenda to destroy the Christian/secular West.

The BBC says Arabs are ambivalent over hostage crisis, but read the article and you’ll see that this is an absurd understatement.

In a phone poll on Al Jazeera, 93% supported the kidnapping and murder of infidels.

Boy, September has been lovely around Toronto – it’s felt more like summer than fall.  Fall always gets me worried about what’s ahead, like this.

With heads rolling again in Iraq, how do companies get anyone to work there?

Six Egyptian engineers working for the mobile telephone company that provides service to central Iraq have been abducted in the past several days, prompting a company official to warn that the phone network would shut down if its remaining foreign workers fled the country in fear.

The danger pay must be huge.

If you have a bike and a lock for it, chances are it may be this one.

How is it that all the best social commentary is now on eBay?

Glad the Sun brings this up.  It’s too bad the Conservatives have a mute for a leader.  Why doesn’t he bring this up in the House? 

NOT ONLY do we not put our worst murderers to death in Canada, we don’t even have a true life sentence for them.

Bring Back CP in Canada!

Here’s the story.

Here’s another word for the UN – disgraceful, as illustrated here.

In fact, there were large bursts of applause by the almost two-thirds of U.N. members for Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, when he said that his country which has been denounced for human rights abuses against its own citizens, told the assembly that he needs no lessons from the West on human rights.

Here’s one Canadian that’s not going to snitch on greedy Americans selling services that Canadians are willing to line up to pay for.

“Ontarians, every single one of them – 12 million of them – can in a sense be deputized to play a role in this,” said Smitherman.

“If anybody finds out about this stuff, you call that in. We have a quick response capacity, and we will stamp these out. We will protect public medicare in the province of Ontario.”

Having information that your heart may be ready to seize up is probably useless in Ontario anyway – you’d have to line up for months to get anybody here to do anything about it.  I wonder if the imaging company offers coupons for some greedy American surgeons?

The Liberal’s blind ideology is costing millions, and lives.

Well, Tory won, no big surprise.  What does he stand for?  Not sure, but abortion and homosexual marriage are fine with him.  He’s clearly a Progressive, but hardly a Conservative, as Lifesign points out.

National Post columnist Andrew Coyne compared the selection of Tory to that of former PC Leader Ernie Eves. Commenting first on the election of the left-leaning Eves, Coyne said “This won (the party) praise from the Liberal press, and not much else: the party went down to a crushing defeat at the next election.” He continued with reference to Tory, “What lesson did the party learn from this? That it should repeat the experiment. Hence its present choice of leader, the second straight to be endorsed by the Toronto Star.”

I can’t link to Coyne, but essentially he is saying the majority of PC members are insane: doing the same thing (elect a Liberal) and expect a different result. 

Clearly, he is only a Tory by (sur)name.  I guess I can let my party membership lapse for another 4 years, until Tory loses and Jim re-cycles himself.  I believe he did better this time.

The abortion debate gets almost no play these days – you’d think no-one cared about it, let alone talked about it.  Here’s an odd account that appeared in the Red Star, strangly enough.

There’s a tiny room on the top floor of a medical building in downtown Toronto.

The door is locked and a sign directs visitors to use the intercom.

We’re here for the abortion.

No mention of the unborn in the article…

There are very few things more disgusting, sickening, and saddening than this.

A video posted today on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American construction contractor Eugene Armstrong.