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How to beat parking tickets in Toronto

Source: The Globe and Mail
By Jim Mahoney

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Toronto City Council has released previously confidential guidelines for cancelling parking tickets.

The manual allows city staff to void tickets for a host of reasons, including to give “consideration for medical reasons, age, unusual circumstances, ignorance of by-law etc” – especially for people who live more than 100 kilometres from Toronto.

Depending on the circumstances, city staff can cancel parking tickets for the following groups:

  • drivers who ...
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Windsor ON tramps Las Vegas in speed traps

Windsor ON tramps Las Vegas in speed traps

We were quite surprised by the list released by the National Motorists Association of the 25 North American communities with the highest number of reported speed trap locations over the past two years. Windsor, On, ranked second city, across USA and Canada, for speed traps.

Here is the full ranking for North American speed traps:

1. Livonia, Michigan 27.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
2. Windsor, Ont. 17.6
3. Orlando 17.2
4. Las Vegas 11.1
5. Denver 10.9
6. Reno, Nevada 10.4
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License Plate Renewal in Ontario

License Plate Renewal in Ontario

It’s that time of year again, your birthday. For drivers that means, a few weeks ahead of time, you will get a notice in the mail that it’s time to renew your vehicle license plate. We need both driver’s licenses to operate a vehicle in Ontario and we must also license our vehicles. We prove that we have done so with a colored sticker on the rear plate.

In order to renew your Ontario license plate, you need “a clean slate”. ...

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Ontario Demerit Points System

Ontario Demerit Points System

One of the biggest concerns our customers ask about is the demerit point system. This is the method in which the government encourages safe driving by penalizing offenders with both monetary fines and accumulation of  “demerit points.”

Some people are confused with the system, and think offenses lead to loss of points. In fact, it’s the opposite! Essentially, points are given according to the severity of the offense.  Getting tickets with demerit points attached do affect your insurance rates – ...

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Traffic Offences Resources

Traffic Offences Resources

Ministry of Transportation
www.mto.gov.on.ca
1-800-268-4686

Driver and Vehicle Licensing
www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/
1-800-387-3445

Commercial Vehicle Operator’s Registration (CVOR)
Carrier Safety and Enforcement Branch
www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/trucks/cvor/
1-800-387-7736 (Ontario Only)

Ministry of the Attorney General
www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/
1-800-518-7901

Pardons Canada
www.pardons.org
1-877-929-6011

Parole Board of Canada
www.pbc-clcc.gc.ca
1-800-874-2652

 

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