Money talks. ICBC’s “worst case scenario” rate increase of 42% over the next four years is screaming out. Will we listen? Last week I shared my “Aha!” moment: by treating only the symptoms of our road safety disease we are
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What happens when you treat symptoms and ignore the disease? There is no headway with the root of the problem. Masking the symptoms might also result in the disease getting worse. The analogy occurred to me as I prepared my
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I am filled with gratitude. The fourth annual event to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims on November 18th was well attended. I didn’t do a count myself, but I am told that there were over
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A solemn day of remembrance has just past. It was a particularly poignant one for me because I attended a Remembrance Day ceremony at my two youngest children’s elementary school. Morgan, the older of the two, had small speaking and
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The protection of children’s legal rights (topic of my last two columns) is important, but doing our best to protect our children from being harmed in the first place is even more so. We do our best to keep our
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My wife uses the dashboard as a footstool. She’s not alone; keep an eye out and you’ll notice that it’s a fairly common passenger posture. I prefer to train my “road safety sights” on those who cause crashes, not on
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I learned yesterday that my mother’s cancer has returned, with a vengeance. She had fought hard, and won the battle a few years ago, but this go-around there is no hope to overcome the disease. I felt devastated by the
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An elderly pedestrian was killed in a car crash; it was barely reported in the news. Paul makes a plea to the public to stop accepting car crashes as an inevitable and acceptable part of society. An invitation is sent
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