Tuesday October 21, 2014 – 1pm
Posted Oct 21, 2014 01:18:04 PM.
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1:00- Teen Driving Safety Week – #practicesafetext
Anne Marie Thomas, Business Development Manager at InsuranceHotline.com
Teen Driving Safety Week kicks off today and will run for a week. It’s no secret that young drivers are often the most vulnerable, and educating our teens is the key to better drivers and to potentially saving lives. According to MADD Canada, young people have the highest rates of traffic death and injury per capital among all age groups. Teen Driving Safety Week is the perfect opportunity for teens and their parents to talk about road safety. Would you be interested in speaking with Anne Marie Thomas about some of the most common traffic mistakes or violations that young drivers make and how they can be avoided? Texting – while teens know the rules about texting and driving, they also live in a world of constant contact. Resisting the urge to ‘just check’ the message can be a matter of life and death. A study conducted by Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that more than one-third of all licensed drivers in Grades 10 to 12 in Ontario admit to having texted while driving. The percentage increases to 46 per cent of licensed students in Grade 12. Confidence – while teens sometimes like to show bravado, many admit to being less confident than they seem. In fact, a UK study showed that two thirds of drivers under the age of 25 felt they lacked confidence. Weather – practice really does matter when it comes to driving in inclement weather. The same UK study listed above sites that more than half of young people are afraid to drive in snow and freezing weather. Drifting – often, new drivers will concentrate so hard on oncoming vehicles that they forget to check their own path – causing them to drift. What to do if your teen driver gets a ticket, how will it affect your insurance? And what happens if your G1 driver is involved in an accident?
1:30- Media organizations endorsing candidates in elections
No matter what else happens in next week’s municipal elections, Kitchener will have its first new mayor in 17 years. And The Record, The region’s biggest newspaper is endorsing Berry Vrbanovic. Carl Zehr’s retirement from the city’s top elected job guarantees major change is in the wind for Waterloo Region’s biggest city. And this transformational gust will send both opportunities and challenges to Kitchener voters at a crucial time in their city’s life. It will take a smart, nimble and effective mayor to build on Zehr’s record of progress, to consolidate the proven gains that have been made in the urban core while driving the city’s economy forward in a time fraught by global uncertainty. Kitchener needs a good manager, a sensitive mediator and a credible ambassador. It needs someone with political experience who can bring together competing interests and forge workable compromises everyone can live with. But most of all, Kitchener needs a leader. In our view, the candidate that best meets this job description is Berry Vrbanovic.
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