I can’t say it often enough: Mandatory retesting for driver’s licenses would address many problems. It provides a strong incentive to brush up on all the rules We could all benefit from a refresher on the rules. Over the years many of us have forgotten what the rules actually are. Some of us got licenses without ever having to properly learn the rules and have just been operating by instinct and “common sense” for a long time. This needs to change. It provides an opportunity to teach how to manage new road features. How many times have you heard we can’t have roundabouts because people don’t know how to use them? I’m sick and tired of weaponized ignorance and avoiding inconvenience used as an excuse for not making improvements! Lives are literally at stake here. Multiple people in traffic collisions in Winnipeg (and elsewhere in the province but I’m not tracking those numbers) every year. Data from jurisdictions that have gotten serious about Vision Zero tell u...
Most young people aren't thinking about their pensions before they've even begun to work. But heroes Aliya Hirji, Travis Olson, Rav Singh, and Chloe Tse are. They're not just thinking – they're taking the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board to court over their failure to fullfil their fiduciary responsibility to their clients (us Canadians). Continuing to invest in fossil fuels at this time is simply wrong. It's stupid and harmful and there's no excuse for it. So, thanks to Shift Action, I've sent a spicy letter to let CPPIB know what I think of their choices. To CPPIB directors and senior leadership, Do you people have no shame? Your utter sham of a farce of pretending to fulfill your obligation to listen to your investors -- ordinary Canadians -- at biennial crosscountry meetings of 60 minutes and not one second longer is bad enough. Now you're literally arguing in court that you actually have no obligation to anything other than making short t...