More likely you will still get a ticket but be able to use the above excuse in court.

The height actually makes it worse cause they will often have a drop hitch to get low enough to meet the trailer, this tends to make it even less noticeable that there is a hitch at shin level.

That really is the rub of it. People who have nothing but care and respect for the woods can’t enjoy it now because we can’t trust someone with their cigarette butt/joint roach.

A big part of it that finally made me pay for spotify is it helping me to find new music. Its not perfect, but when the app actually works correctly it will queue up music similar to the song or playlist you searched and it can help you find new bands or other songs by the artists you like. When i was just listening to my downloaded music I’d get stuck in a rut of the same few albums or artists.

Do you have a source for this? Our cargo trains run through some pretty frigid winters. Many European countries have a similar climate and they have trains. Aren’t the swiss famous for sending trains through snowy mountains?

All the problems you’ve described are infrastructure abd policy problems We can build climate controlled mass transit stations. We can maintain separated and safe bicycle networks in the winter. We can clear pedestrian pathways of snow instead of plowing the car lane snow onto them. Its all policy and infrastructure. If you make transit the fastest while being convenient and clean, people will use it over cars because it takes less time, not everyone, but certainly enough to make it worth it.

We can’t fairly use the there are no cyclists now argument because we haven’t given them any real options. We need to provide safe and effecient cycling infrastructure to truly see how many people would prefer to bike. If a city had no roads you could make the argument not to build any roads because nobody drives anyway.

But Canada is “too big” for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.

The great lakes area was the first area extensively settled and thus has the most developed cities. The great lakes area is also rich in fresh water and farmland.

The canadian shield is a rough and rugged strech of land of exposed rock intermixed with swamps. It covers most of the north/central eastern part of the country and it is very difficult and expensive to build settlements on. It also only provides a few pockets of farmland. The land closer to the border is more hospitable for settlements and farming.

One minor correction. The reason Canadians drive is not because the weather sucks, Canadians drive so much because our country refuses to build real transit or walkability. Hell half our country is going to court because a few of our provincial premiers want building bike lanes to be illegal. There are other countries with similar climates to Canada where people don’t need to extensively rely on their car to live their daily life.

Id also say that the biggest factor to cost of living is cost of housing, which is largely related to our cities making it nearly impossible to build any housing that isnt detached single family homes with minimum lot sizes and set back requirements. This also reinforces the car dependancy

What and make people breathe in the stench of BO and feet?

Most people can’t even afford their own house, let alone installing filtration. My area has been covered in wildfire smoke recently. My apartment has no AC. I get to choose breathing in the smoke and having some cooling from outside, or breath slightly less smoke but swelter in the heat.

Maybe as a nation, we shouldn’t be letting profits get in the way of feeding people? Just a wild suggestion.

In our age, a depressing number of people would choose option 2. We as a society are getting more & more selfish each year.

Transportation minister? More like minister of car dependancy. Or minister of the auto and oil lobby.

I’m gonna circle the walmart parking lot for 15 minutes looking for the closest spot to park to save 30 seconds of walking.

Ford is so economical. Thats why he is spending tax payer dollars ripping out newly installed bike lanes and spending money fighting about it in court because the conservatives are “fiscally responsible”.

So obviously corrupt and for the wealthiest class yet the people of Ontario keep voting him in to own the libs or something

The police need vehicles capable of 4x4 in rural communities and rough dirt roads. This is to access the entire comunity but also give better success in chasing the drunk dodge ram driver into the corn field. The police also sometimes have things like trailers for crime scene investigation or boats for water based policing, they need a vehicle capable of towing those.

They also use some unmarked trucks for traffic control as they blend in better allowing them to do radar more effectively.

The people of Ontario need focused leadership on many major issues they are facing. Wasting time by meddling in municipal affairs while the country is begging canadians to support each other is pathetic. Ontario can do better, deserves better, and needs better leadership from our premier than this.