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.

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.