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For a small surcharge to Skip the Dishes, a Guelph area man could have saved himself a world of hurt.
On Sunday night, the 38-year-old decided at 10:30 he was hungry. No problem. Head to the local fast food joint. Fall asleep behind the wheel sitting in the parking lot? Big problem. Police were called by a motorist who noticed the driver with his head slung into the driver’s window, food on the passenger seat. Yes, you can get nailed even if you think you’re doing a non-moving violation.
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Police in the Innisfil region collared a man yesterday following the recovery of a stolen vehicle from the watery depths of Lake Simcoe.
The gendarmes were called to a marina on Shore Acres Drive, just south of Barrie and about an hour north of Toronto. They were responding to a middle-of-the-night dunking of a vehicle that had “entered the water” in the area. The car turned out to be empty but it was quickly determined the machine had been stolen from Hanover the day prior. Calling on the K9 Unit, the suspect was tracked to a nearby building and apprehended.
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I jumped into the recently refreshed Nissan Kicks and set a destination for the growing suburb of Georgetown. The Kicks is one of the most affordable new crossovers on the market – a vehicle for those on a budget, penny pinchers, or those wary of buying something worn out and unreliable on the used market. This isn’t a new thing for Nissan, as the automaker used to offer the Micra for under $10,000, although the starting price of the Kicks is nearly double that.
Despite the inflated price, the Kicks reminds me a lot of that peppy little car and maintains that same energy on the road. The 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine makes 122 horsepower and 114 lb-ft of torque, which sounds a little underwhelming but two important elements help the small crossover keep its edge.
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Forget all the noise (or silence) about a Porsche Taycan Turbo S that goes from zero to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds; what we really need, according to two retired Grand Bend, Ontario businessmen Don Liley and Dave Marr, is more LSVs – that’s low speed vehicles, for the uninitiated. The electric carts are manufactured in British Columbia, and the duo decided their community would be a perfect playground for the all-electric buggies –
if they could get municipal approval. Well, mission accomplished: their business got the go-ahead from local bylaw on April 13.
In keeping with the parameters of the pilot project introduced by the province of Ontario in July of 2017, “LSVs are electric, environmentally friendly and efficient and must meet all the requirements of the LSV pilot. LSV’s travel at a speed up to 40 KPH and can only be driven on roads and highways with a maximum speed limit of up to 50 KPH. The LSV must be licensed, insured and driven by a licensed dri
The trucks will be used for home deliveries starting with Ikea locations in Boucherville, Quebec; Etobicoke, Ontario; and Richmond, B.C. in the fall of 2021. There is no word yet on whether their drivers will have to assemble them first.
In a press release, Ikea said it has “taken an important first step on the journey to fulfilling its commitment of 100 percent zero-emission deliveries by 2025.” The company also said that by 2030, it plans to reduce more greenhouse gas emissions than it emits, even as it grows its business.
The five-tonne electric trucks will be co-branded with Ikea and Second Closet. The furniture retailer said that in 2020, it made over 500,000 home deliveries in Canada, a 30 percent increase over 2019. The company has electric vehicle chargers at all 14 of its stores across Canada, and said it produces four times the energy it consumes in its operations and facilities, through the use of renewable energy from wind farms and rooftop solar panels.