Ontario drive test appointments sold online for hundreds of dollars. Is this legal?

G2 and G driver’s test appointments at provincially-regulated driving centres in Ontario are at a premium.

COVID-19 caused DriveTest centres to shut down in-vehicle passenger road tests for months. When the service reopened on June 14, driving students rushed to snatch a spot — creating a backlog of 700,000 tests.

Amid the sea of drivers wanting to get their licence, Delano Anderson patiently awaits his turn.

It is legal in the 3rd World of Ontario.

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Thousands more officers needed to fill employment equity gaps, RCMP says

Thousands more officers needed to fill employment equity gaps, RCMP says

After years of headlines about toxic behaviour and sexual harassment in the ranks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is reporting it’s falling far behind on hiring women and visible minorities.

The RCMP has revealed part of its strategy to build a more inclusive workforce — and the number of people they’ll have to hire to meet the federal government’s employment equity standards.

The police service says it needs to hire more than 5,100 women to the regular ranks to make up for a 27 per cent shortfall.

That’ll help.

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Ontario reports 423 new Covid cases … and … Canada relaxes travel restrictions as US posts 100k a day infection rate

Ontario reports 423 new Covid cases … and … Canada relaxes travel restrictions as US posts 100k a day infection rate

Ontario reports highest COVID-19 case count in 7 weeks; 6 more deaths

Ontario reported 423 new COVID-19 cases and six new deaths on Sunday, the fifth straight day of case growth that saw positivity, active caseload and hospitalizations all start to inch upward from the lows notched last month.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 261, up from 231 yesterday.


Canada loosening more travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers on Monday

For more than a year and a half, Canada has kept its doors closed to most non-essential foreign travellers. But that will change on Monday when the federal government opens our border to fully vaccinated Americans.

100,000 new COVID-19 cases on average per day now being reported in U.S.

The United States is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.

Those are impressive day to day jumps. Will they lockdown again?

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Iceland says reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions may stick for 15 years

Iceland, one of the first countries in the world to abolish all COVID-19 restrictions for vaccinated tourists, may see recently reimposed safety protocols in place for 15 years, according to one of the Nordic country’s chief medical experts.

Despite the overwhelming majority of Iceland’s adult population having been vaccinated, chief epidemiologist Thorolfur Gudnason said he cannot rule out that reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions may become necessary for many years to come.

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First Nations and Ottawa agree to $8-billion settlement on drinking water advisories

A proposed settlement agreement worth nearly $8 billion has been reached in two national class action lawsuits launched against the federal government by First Nations living under drinking water advisories.

The settlement, which is awaiting court approval, would offer $1.5 billion in compensation to individuals deprived of clean drinking water and modernize Canada’s First Nations drinking water legislation.

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BREAKING: CDC NOT MANDATING ITS EMPLOYEES TO BE VAXED

A concerned citizen contacted the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA yesterday and spoke to multiple employees. When asked if the CDC was mandating its employees to inject themselves with the experimental gene therapy called a ‘vaccine’ for the CCP virus, they pushed back, got defensive, and finally said no, they are not mandating CDC employees receive the ‘vaccine’ for Covid-19, which has not even been tested on animals and is still experimental, under an emergency use authorization only.

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Terence Corcoran: Canada’s first ‘net-zero’ carbon fiasco

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pre-election bailout of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Muskrat Follies hydroelectric mega-boondoggle was announced last week with preposterous “build-back-better” claims about creating “a healthier and more prosperous future” that will help achieve a clean and decarbonized energy system for the province and the country.

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International Cat Day

August 8 is International Cat Day — a day to celebrate one of man’s most common and ancient pets. They have even been worshiped as gods (we see you, Egypt.) Well, it is not surprising, Cats are one of the coolest beings on the planet: they are independent, inquisitive, adventurous, have an amazing physiognomy, and the power to heal by themselves — at least most of the time.

#BeCatCurious and spend some quality time with your cat for International Cat Day on Sunday 8 August 2021.

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Continental Breakfast

Meat Lovers Quiche

Canada blocks proposed Rocky Mountain coal mine on environmental grounds

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, responsible for taking the final decision, said the project would harm surface water quality and threaten endangered animal and tree species.

“The Government of Canada has determined those effects are not justified in the circumstances and therefore, the project cannot proceed,” he said in a statement.

Episode 4: Guns as a Way of Life

When Justin Trudeau banned 1,500 types of firearms and continued to restrict legal gun ownership, he and his government insisted rural Canadians and those for whom firearms are a way of life would not be targeted. Just like with sport shooters and business owners, this is far from the case.

FERNANDO: Opposing ‘Fourth Wave’ Hysteria Should Be An Election Issue

A confident & mature democracy must be capable of having a real debate, rather than a false and artificially imposed ‘consensus’.

https://twitter.com/AnstrutherMary/status/1423961268696846341
LOL “got entire diaries written about them.” What an idiot!

Homeland Security warns of ‘increasing but modest’ threat of violence from Trump conspiracy

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday they have observed “an increasing but modest level of activity online” by people who are calling for violence in response to baseless claims of 2020 election fraud and related to the conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated.

Watchdog Report: Fauci Spent Nearly Half A Million In Taxpayer Dollars On Abusive Experiments On Dogs

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, directed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, spent $424,455 in taxpayer funds on experiments to infest beagles with parasite-carrying flies, even though the procedure had already been extensively tested on other animals. White Coat Waste Project, the government watchdog group that obtained the documents, found that about half of Fauci’s $6 billion budget was used for animal experimentation, including the abusive dog experiment.

Group Of Powerful Democrat Women Meet To Discuss Kamala Harris Crisis

Kamala Harris is in trouble and she has not even been in the vice president’s mansion for a year.

And because of a tidal wave of press that described working for her and her chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, a group of powerful Democrat women met at a home in the Capitol to discuss how to defend her, Axios reported.

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