Canada:  Canadian Company Aims to Add Sobriety Tests to Steering Wheels

Canada:  Canadian Company Aims to Add Sobriety Tests to Steering Wheels Transport Topics By Jim Stinson, Staff Reporter March 27, 2019 A Canadian company that makes alcohol-detection devices attached to steering wheels of school buses hopes to expand to North American trucking companies. Sober Steering was founded in 2008 by Catherine Carroll, acting CEO, and […]

Athéna Gervais drowning: Coroner comes down hard on alcohol marketed to kids

Athéna Gervais drowning: Coroner comes down hard on alcohol marketed to kids The father of the Laval teen who died after drinking three cans of FCKD UP said: “She was just a kid, doing a silly adolescent thing, for fun. Until it wasn’t fun anymore.” Montreal Gazette By René Bruemmer March 27, 2019 MONTREAL, Canada […]

Why do so many of us have an ‘alcohol blind spot’? 

Why do so many of us have an ‘alcohol blind spot’?  Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Maria Lally 28 MARCH 2019 Confession time. Last Friday evening I went to a friend’s house to catch up over ‘a quick glass of wine’ and we ended up drinking a bottle and a half between us. Tomorrow night I’m meeting up with […]