Donovan Lagrange, a nine year veteran of the Quebec provincial police force, was killed while on duty on Saturday. It wasn’t a gun fight. He was walking back to his patrol car after pulling over…
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Offensive as it may be, I am a member of a two vehicle family. My office is a 20 minute walk from my home. Surely to goodness we could do with one vehicle. Of course…
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A six year old boy is killed and his mother’s leg is broken. A 21 year old man is on trial. He is charged with offences of drunk and dangerous driving causing death and injury….
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I remember playing with my brother in the back seat of the family car. We were on a road trip. I do not recall the destination. I remember that the floor area of the back…
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It’s time for my periodic rant against the British Columbia Government about our cell phone laws. The trigger for my rant, this time around, is a Transportation Safety Board report into the cause of a…
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My father moved last month to live down the street from me. We hadn’t lived in the same city since I left Regina to go to the University of Victoria for law school in 1991….
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The point I tried to drive home in my last column was that we are not driving around in bumper cars. Media reports of “no injuries” or “minor injuries”, based on what is reported at…
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“Good statistics are at the foundation of all sound decision making across society and the economy.” I pulled that from the website of “Office for National Statistics”, which purports to be the United Kingdom’s largest…
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David Kubert, riding his motorcycle with his wife, Linda, as his passenger, sees the pick-up truck driver steering with his elbows, his head down, immediately before the head-on crash. The truck has drifted across the…
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This week’s column was a bit of a struggle for me. Usually, the trick is coming up with a topic that I feel passionate about. Armed with a good topic, my columns seem to write…
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