Truckers

EDITORIAL – Decision on Emergencies Act doesn’t validate ‘Freedom Convoy’

January 24, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. QUITE THE BOMBSHELL yesterday with a Federal Court ruling that the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act against the so-called [Continue]

PETERS – A few unprepared drivers are ruining reputation of trucking industry

January 20, 2024 // 1 Comment

YET ANOTHER TRUCK with an overheight load hit some infrastructure in B.C. this week. On Monday, a truck carrying a helicopter fuselage hit an overpass in Burnaby. The [Continue]

HIGHWAY DANGER – Crash highlights concerns about highways, trucking

July 1, 2023 // 1 Comment

By AMIE McLEAN Intercultural Coordinator Thompson Rivers University DETAILS ARE STILL EMERGING about the recent collision between a bus carrying seniors and a semi-truck in [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The depth of Freedom Convoyers’ discontent is misunderstood

January 12, 2023 // 1 Comment

IT’S EASY TO DISMISS motives of supporters of the Freedom Convoy that paralyzed Canada’s capital last January. Their grievances seem so inchoate, like a primal howl. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Truckers should make a New Year’s resolution to just drive

January 5, 2023 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LET’S BE HONEST — we’re simply not going to live up to our New Year’s resolutions, are we? So the question is, why bother? Yet, [Continue]

GIESBRECHT – Time to un-cancel diversity of opinion

December 28, 2022 // 4 Comments

Intolerance undermines the free speech essential for democracy to survive By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE QUEST FOR ‘DIVERSITY’ has [Continue]