Ontario Highway 401

We have...

The Highway of Heroes, the 401, and it's lined with people.

It's lined with flags.

It's really an amazing thing.

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On April 22, 2004, around 2 a.m., there was a significant vehicle fire on Highway 401 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This was in the eastbound collector lanes near the Highway 400 overpass, one of the busiest highway interchanges in Canada.

Several motorists, seeing a tractor-trailer pulled over onto the shoulder and a small Toyota Corolla behind it, entirely engulfed in flames, stopped to offer assistance.

But they couldn't.

All they could tell was that the extremely charred body was a woman.

She was so badly incinerated that all they could determine about Highway 401 Jane Doe was that she was likely between 35 and 50 years old.

The cause of death was not determinable, but it wasn't fire.

There's a halal grocery here in the little college town I live in in upstate New York, Ithaca.

I went home to visit some friends in Canada a few weeks ago, and as I was driving along Highway 401, the major, major, major thoroughfare that goes between Michigan and Quebec through Toronto and Canada's most populous area, and you know uh big regs you know the under the employ of canadian grocery store chains with their own trailers and advertising on the side you know various halal meat brands uh you know come to our grocery store and we have all the halal meat you want and it's like okay so we've just accepted that um uh i guess slitting the throats of animals in a certain way as long as they're facing mecca or something like we can have this like separate logistics and supply chain thing to to feed people like i mean whatever it's just it's there and it's happening you know

yeah i also forgot to mention um there's just about any daycare that goes you know from cincinnati all the way up to dayton or columbus um They're hiring all these Uzbeks who can't speak English, and they're the ones that are teaching your babies how to speak and do stuff.

And I mean, some of these kids have peanut allergies, and so if they can't speak English, I don't know how they're supposed to understand peanut allergy warnings and stuff for certain kids.

It's a different place, man.

Yeah, Tom, there are people on the 401 right now in the city of Toronto or on the Gardner saying, yeah, that you can't even begin to fathom like how that would even work, how it's even possible.

to spend between the moment you board the ambulance and then you're back where you started after being checked out in the span of an hour.

It doesn't even compute in this particular city with the traffic we endure here.

some critics, they've said, well, it's different when you have a kind of heat map is the term that's been used sometimes.

It's one thing to say, well, okay, you saw me on the, I'll use a Canadian example, Highway 401, but to say, well, this is exactly where they went and this is where they got off the highway.

It becomes a sort of mosaic of your activity.

Yeah.

Present inside my, present inside my, present soul So much past inside my, present inside my, present inside my, present soul

Staying stoned on Highway 401 In a bay in the southern Ontario, bastard son I let my soul slip into the sun And watched it sink just over Kingston Well, I left my heart in old Montreal Ooh, they're famed so bad and they'll take so long I'm running on Empty but still running on Into the red flaming edges With no redemptions Don't the houses all are gone And every farm we pass All the crumbling beauties Each new division's trash We don't play for our sins No, God saves our souls In the name of the daughters And the holy smoke

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can't deal with shit.

In 500 meters, turn left onto the Ontario 401 East ramp to Toronto.

Like, if there's a foundation that's unshakable, and yeah, the house falls down, it's like, what are you doing? Go build that house again.

What are you doing? When people don't want to build the house together, yet the foundation's still sitting there.

I'm like, what are you doing? But that's just me judging, because...

Turn left onto the Ontario 401 East ramp.

So in your case, is it that you didn't...

You didn't... have enough shared values with her.

And the Ford government has pointed to Singapore, South Korea, Poland, and Panama as international says examples.

A possible tunnel under Highway 401 through Toronto has been floated as another potential says project.

That'll take fucking years.

Doug Ford will be out of office by then.

This is the case Wanamim Lake appears in, not the $95 billion Treaty 9 co-jurisdiction case, so I just wanted to keep those separate and make that clear.

So here is the Southern Ontario example.

Highway 413 is a proposed 52-kilometer highway running from Highway 401 to Highway 400 through Halton Hills, Brampton, and Vaughan.

In October 2024, the government tabled Bill 212 exempting the Highway 413 project from the Environmental Assessment Act and speeding up property acquisitions.

For me, a, it was a question of how did we get here.

You look at something like the Highway 401 today, and you, you see the 18 lanes.

Well, how did we get to that? Because that must have been increments.

Mm-hmm.