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Huge number of dropped charges at Ontario courts amounts to ‘lawlessness’: NDP Hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges that were dropped last year are a sign Ontario’s justice system is failing to live up to its basic functions and puts Ontario on the road to ...

“The simple slap on the wrist of the Highway Traffic Act ticket and penalty is not even administered. How crushing is that to somebody who remains off work after being injured by someone?,” Shellnutt said at the news conference.

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Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

NEW: Clients of lobby firms connected to the premier and his nephew were given tens of millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Clients of Rubicon — a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager — got more than $100M, records show.

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Am I being detained or ticketed? No - Am I free to go?

Always keep in mind these guys are super dangerous.

Guelph police launch bike safety campaign for October | CBC News Guelph police have launched a month-long campaign focused on bicycle safety. Officers will be connecting with cyclists directly to educate them about rules under the Highway Traffic Act. The move has ...

From the @bicyclemayorguelph.bsky.social in CBC on Police enforcing against cyclists in Guelph: "Bidgood worries that the campaign unnecessarily targets cyclists rather than focusing on the root causes of safety issues, and points to the two recent deaths as well."

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At that speed, yes you would kill someone.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

A vehicle registered to one of Doug Ford’s cabinet ministers blew past an automated speed camera, going 70 km/h in a 40 zone and netting a $450 fine.
globalnews.ca/news/1146373... @ColinDMello

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Is this the part of the 1.5 km of work the Canadian engineering firm Stantec was hired by the province to help remove?

Asking for a friend (and professional engineers horrified that a "reputable" firm accepted this contract everywhere).

www.cycleto.ca/shame_on_you...

So sorry friend.

I got doored 12 years ago now. I was moving at a fast clip along a main road. I sustained a concussion, broke my nose, fractured my elbow, sprained my wrist and my knee and sustained multiple lacerations. You bet it matters, the asshole should've been charged, but like a coward, he took off.

Charges actually addressing public safety and a bunch are withdrawn

#acab #allcyclistarebeautiful #wekeepussafe #fckcrs #byebyemirror #1meteristhelaw

And other drivers!

This is hardly a surprise when our Premier is actively endangering vulnerable road users by tearing out bike lanes and speed cameras, and has publicly stated that he thinks speeding is no big deal. But sure, tell us how it's all Ottawa's fault.

The thing is most of these tickets are being tossed probably involved people driving or their passengers being hit by other dangerous drivers...it's a disservice to all road users.

So sorry Peter

That's horrifying. I'm so sorry

My former supervisor in NYC died as a result of someone dooring her.

She did everything right to stay safe as she commuted by bicycle; she was crucial in getting cycling infrastructure in the Bronx.

All it took was one man who didn’t look.

His door hit her and sent her into oncoming traffic…

Thousands of charges against drivers withdrawn in Ontario as critics decry system in ‘shambles’ Hundreds of thousands of charges against drivers, including careless driving, speeding, dooring and failing to stop, are being withdrawn before trial as one judge says Ontario’s provincial offences co...

"It’s really upsetting. It feels like it’s not a priority. Essentially, the driver, and the community, are being told that dooring someone doesn’t matter,” Dermody said. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Frig ya

I would love to chime in on that next time

CTV National News: Serious concerns with Ontario’s ability to keep up with so-called bad drivers Jon Woodward discusses how Ontario’s plans to do away with speed cameras presents a possible struggle for the province to hold bad drivers accountable.

The Ontario Court System is in shambles & under resourced. Prosecutors in Toronto are prosecuting cyclists while letting drivers who injured VRUs off the hook. In 2019, 57K HTA charges in Ontario were withdrawn. This year that number has skyrocketed to 253K.
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On September 19, someone's mom was killed in Guelph by the driver of a pickup truck. The driver has now been charged. (Mom was killed but her husband and 3-year-old daughter in a stroller were struck as well!!!) On August 29, a Guelph cyclist was killed by the driver of a garbage truck. The driver has now been charged. But today, the @guelphpoliceservice announce a month long campaign of enforcement against people on bikes to ensure they know the rules of the road? This is a police service demonstrating a failure to adequately respond to road safety issues. It lacks compassion and empathy for the two people (and their families) who were killed by dangerous and careless drivers. The Service should be reviewed and it's priorities dictated to it by Guelph City Council as GPS appear unable/unwilling to address the true dangers on our roadways. The lack of compassion, understanding, nuance, etc. boils our blood and rocks our faith in the Service to it's core. I doubt we are alone. Ride safe Guelph Cycling friends, the law is after you. - The Biking Lawyer

CBC News Headline: Garbage truck driver charged after cyclist killed in Guelph 37-year-old man charged with careless driving causing death CBC News · Posted: Sep 24, 2025 9:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 24

Guelph Today Headline: Charges now laid in Paisley Road pedestrian fatality The 19-year-old driver of the pickup truck that killed a Guelph mom crossing the road Sept. 19 has been charged with careless driving causing death

On Sep 19, a pickup truck driver killed a mother while hospitalizing her 3-year-old daughter and husband.

103 pedestrians/cyclists were killed or severely injured by motorists in #Guelph last year - none by cyclists.

GPS priorities: 🗑️

Photo Credit: @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

#RoadViolence

Name a police station after Sewell

(Sewell was voted out after he defended the gays after the bathhouse raids and had been a fairly consistent cop critic)

On Truth & Reconciliation Day, we must act on ongoing harms.

Grassy Narrows still suffers from mercury contamination after 60 + years.

Sign the petition for Mercury Justice

you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

CTV National News: Serious concerns with Ontario’s ability to keep up with so-called bad drivers Jon Woodward discusses how Ontario’s plans to do away with speed cameras presents a possible struggle for the province to hold bad drivers accountable.

Ontario: 57K HTA tickets withdrawn in 2019, 250K in 2024! 2 of our clients explained how charges for the drivers who seriously injured them were withdrawn for no good reason. Each and every Ontarian should be shocked about the state of our courts. Justice not served:

www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

Not sure honestly

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn — one of thousands tossed each year by a ‘system in shambles’ The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system that is leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the ho...

We regularly see Toronto prosecutors toss cases or police fail to submit disclosure where cyclists have been hit by dangerous motorists, resulting in life altering injuries. This is a travesty. An injustice. Fantastic reporting by the Star's @alyshah.bsky.social:
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

Image of my folding e-bike in front of the hospital.

Early morning start at Unity Health Toronto – St. Michael’s Hospital with the Road Safety Community Action Committee (CAC)

Thx Chandni Patel
Research Program Manager

h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ternbicycles.com