It looks like I’ll be able to read Christie Blatchford again. The Globe‘s internet gate has once more been let down. I’m sure next to no-one paid for the content.
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Speed limit 150?
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Jim Kenzie doesn’t like the 50kmh over law
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in Ontario. I say it’s a good start.
Anniversaries are often a time for taking stock. They are usually happy occasions. Candles are lit. Cakes are baked. Presents are handed out.
Time’s up on `street racing’ law.
Here’s what I posted in his comments area:
Back when I was 20, I used to agree with you Jim. Now that I am double that, have kids, and drive 140,000 lbs down the road each day, I totally disagree. When we have parts of the 401 with 30kmh cloverleafs (Hwy 10, Brock St.), how can you say having a speed differential of 120 kmh is safe? When the MTO is set to pass a law governing trucks to 105?
Speed differential causes collisions, as does over capacity highways, as does poor driver training standards.
Ontario drivers cannot handle 150, let alone 100. Leave the limit where it is.
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Free Sound Recorder
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In my effort to tell you about the best software tools out there to get something done easily, I present to you Free Sound Recorder: Download Freecorder Toolbar. This little gadget allows you to easily record anything you hear from your computer’s VISTA speakers.
I read somewhere via Google that the best music was actually on Youtube, and not Limewire. If you are looking for a good bootleg copy of an artist’s live performance that they aren’t selling anyway, go to Youtube and Freecorder it.
VISTA so far has been a nightmare for doing the simplest things. This little investigation took me quite some time to figure out.
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Another wrong way crash
Since this appears to be the second wrong-way crash on this stretch in a couple of weeks, is there a way we can get the MTO to examine where this drunk got on so we can make it harder for them to do so?
One person is in serious condition and five people sustained minor injuries in a two-car collision that closed Hwy. 403 from Hurontario St. to Hwy. 410 for hours.
TheStar.com | GTA | 6 hurt in wrong way Hwy. 403 crash.
Last month’s 403 wrong-way fatal crash
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Gardiner on-ramps
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While reading this story on a bad crash on the Gardiner Expressway, I wrote this letter to Mayor Miller:
The S. Kingsway on-ramp to the e/b Gardiner is one of the worst on the Gardiner. It merges at almost right angles to the roadway.
At least, a barrier should be erected where the ramp meets the live lane #3. That way, cars in lane #3 won’t feel like they’re being driven into.
On the w/b Gardiner, we have the Jameson on-ramp. This too is far too short, and needs to be extended. Last time I complained about this ramp, I was told that the whole fate of the Gardiner is up in the air, and no design changes were to be considered during this period of uncertainty (this as been the excuse for the last 25 years with the roadway.)
Since this portion of the Gardiner is not under any consideration to be removed, please have your engineers examine this stretch.
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Unlucky 13
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Damn that Johnny Cochrane for dying on OJ! Another catchy slogan like “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” would have gone a long way to help the killer.
The verdict came 13 years to the day after Simpson was cleared of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles in one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century.
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I shit you not one pound
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Fred is worried about McCain‘s temper. I also didn’t know he tried to hang himself while in Nam, but who could blame him?
Not all. Some manage to hold it together and become things thought to be respectable, such as senators or writers or defense attorneys. A subsurface lode of hostility can be useful in a trial lawyer. Anger is energizing. It can fuel a career.
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White and blue
Not often you get a white collar bandit doing blue collar crime. Wonder if he wasn’t also doing some white collar crime as well – since he is an “investment” banker.
Only hours after the release of high quality images of a bank robber dubbed “the Exchange Bandit,” a 37-year-old Toronto man who works in the financial services industry turned himself in.
Money man arrested in 26 bank heists | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun.
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More of the sucking sound
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That Giant Sucking Sound seems to be picking up steam in Ontario.
Ross Perot’s most famous quote was a few years off, but it seems to really be resonating lately.
Volvo Group is shutting down its Goderich road grader operations and eliminating about 500 jobs as consolidations and closures continue hammering Ontario’s manufacturing sector.
Volvo plant closure takes toll on Goderich.
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