“One minute and a half, and we’re on scene, whereas a patrol car might be a little farther away, and have to deal with traffic,” he said.

Just in time for Christmas, the HMCS Vancouver along with 240 crew members has retuned to Esquimalt Harbour after a six-month deployment.

The only way to really know what your trailerboat weighs is to load it up as you normally would and put it over a public weighbridge. It might be the best $30 you spend

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Dozens of cars lined up around the block and down the street as the Gathering Place was the venue to a drive thru holiday dinner.

For Western Australia, you’ll need a Class 1 Restricted Access Vehicle (RAV) Oversize Boat Transport Period Permit. Permit cost is $50 for 3 years. Oversize trailerboats up to 2.70m wide can’t be towed on freeways; wider than that and you have further restrictions. The boat trailer must have side marker lights no more than 2m apart.

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Purolator and UPS have paused shipments from some courier companies as they try to work through a deluge of deliveries brought on by the Canada Post strike.

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The K’ómoks First Nation is making history by becoming the first land code nation in Canada to appoint a justice of the peace – and she’s been recognized as a trailblazer, too.

Authorities in the ACT and NT had not responded with the requested oversize information by the time of writing. We’ll update with oversize requirements in those jurisdictions when the information arrives.

One of the noticeable changes during Saskatoon’s 2025 budget deliberations at city hall this past week was an increase to the snow and ice budget.

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Under VSB1 (the national standard applying to trailers), a trailer (including in this case, the boat) has to measure no more than 4.3m high and its rear over hang must not be more than 60 per cent of the wheelbase measurement (coupling to wheelset) or 3.7 metres, whichever is the lesser.

Sorting out the towing rules and regs isn’t child’s play. We’re still waiting for responses from the ACT and Tasmania, while the NT’s efforts were lame.

The Delta Police Department has expanded its drone program, but privacy experts are worried about how the footage will be used.

The trailer compliance plate (for all trailers built since August 1989) will give rated maximums for both GTM and ATM, and in some cases TBM.

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Western University will remain closed for the second consecutive day Friday due to weather. All in-person classes and exams have either been cancelled or moved online.

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In all jurisdictions, for boats no more than 2.90m wide, you’ll need ‘Oversize’ signs on the front of the tow vehicle and the rear of the trailer, and four flags on the trailer, all of which need to be to Australian Standards specifications.

Tare mass (TM) is the mass of the trailer unladen, as it leaves the factory, ready to be registered and used. TM does not include the boat or options fitted (except factory-fitted options).

According to James Sandberg, DPD's public affairs manager, it takes only minutes to launch the drone from the roof of the department to an active scene.

The Edmonton Police Service is warning of a new shoplifting trend where groups of young people swarm store employees to steal expensive products.

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It was revealed on Wednesday that the proposed location of a supervised consumption site has been set for the Disraeli Freeway, and now members in the surrounding community are speaking out.

All schools in St. Thomas and at the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB), in addition to TVDSB’s education and distribution centres, are closed Friday.

Authorities in the ACT and NT had not responded with the requested oversize information by the time of writing. We’ll update with oversize requirements in those jurisdictions when the information arrives.

Gross Trailer Mass (GTM) is the mass that can be carried by the trailer’s wheels, with everything on the trailer (the boat, outboards, fuel, your fishing gear, the works).

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A vehicle’s legal TBM maximum is usually 10 per cent of its towing capacity: for example, with a 3500kg towing capacity, you’d be able to plonk up to 350kg of that on the towball. It’s not always as much as 10 per cent though, particularly with some Korean and European vehicles. You might find such a vehicle has 2500kg towing capacity but just 100kg maximum TBM.

A Saskatoon-based dog rescue operator has been ordered to pay over $27,000 in damages to five women after a judge ruled she defamed them in several Facebook posts.

Aislin Jackson, policy staff counsel with the BC Civil Liberties Association, told CTV News she believes there is a limited role for drones in policing – preferring them to be used in search and rescue operations rather than investigations.

Bad weather and bad driving contributed to multiple collisions on Highway 11 on Wednesday, leading to charges for several commercial motor vehicle drivers.

Santa Claus continues the tour of Ottawa and eastern Ontario, Christmas markets are open across the region and the Senators and 67’s each play twice at home this weekend. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at things to do in Ottawa and eastern Ontario this weekend.

“In situations like this, transparency becomes even more complicated because we are not entirely sure if and when we are being recorded by police surveillance technologies,” Schneider said.

Oversize trailerboats can’t be towed at particular times or places in Queensland, and you can find the complete list here.

The department announced the “Drone as First Responder Program” Thursday, saying it will be used in certain emergency situations to improve response times to calls.

NSW, Queensland and Victoria share a few rules relating to oversize trailerboats. The tow vehicle’s low-beam headlights must be on during the day (except NSW, where Daytime Running Lights – where fitted – are acceptable).

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Say your trailer has a 700kg Tare or TM, 3250kg GTM and 3500kg ATM. Subtract Tare from ATM, and you’ve got your maximum payload figure — 2800kg in this case.

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Five years ago, Notre-Dame Cathedral erupted in flames. A column of smoke rose above the Paris skyline as the historic cathedral, which took 182 years to build between the 12th and 14th centuries, was reduced to a smouldering shell.

“Its primary use is going to be rapid active scene assessment,” he said. “When there’s a call for service, being able to get eyes on the scene right away helps us.”

It's GivingTuesday, and some directors of food banks and anti-poverty groups say the day underlines a conundrum for their organizations.

“Snow squalls end for your Friday – as we move into the afternoon we will see some nice peeks of sunshine,” said CTV London Meteorologist Julie Atchison.

After four days of deliberations, and some contention ahead of the final vote, Edmonton city council passed a 6.1-per-cent increase for 2025.

York Regional Police have charged four teenage boys and two men and are looking for six more suspects in connection with a jewelry store robbery in Markham on Wednesday.

You need the right tow vehicle and towbar. Both the vehicle and the towbar should have a plate or sticker noting maximum permitted towing mass figures, both for total towing mass and TBM (the vehicle towing capacities are usually on a sticker fitted to a door jamb. If not, these specifications will be in the owner’s manual).

There are numerous times and places when you cannot tow an oversize trailerboat in NSW. Go to this towing road access document for NSW for the full run down. If you started your trip before dark, you can drive up to 10km after dark before having to pull up.

Aggregate Trailer Mass (ATM) is the combination of GTM and TBM. Imagine your trailerboat, all loaded up but sitting on its jockey wheel — that mass sitting on the road is ATM.

However, many of the towing mistakes made by trailerboaters make are elementary and stem from not knowing the terminology.

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If you bought a used vehicle with a towbar already on it, check that towbar capacity matches the vehicle’s towing capacity. Some don’t: for example the VFII Commodore can tow 2100kg but Holden offers a choice of 1200kg, 1600kg or 2100kg towbars for the VFII. Check the towball too: if you’re towing 3500kg then a 2000kg-rated towball is no use to you.

When paramedic Jim Barnes left his home in Fort St. John to go hunting on Oct. 18, he asked his partner Micaela Sawyer — who’s also a paramedic — if she wanted to join him. She declined, so Barnes took the couple’s dog Murphy, an 18-month-old red golden retriever with him.

A Saskatchewan school bus driver, who was transporting 50 children shortly before his arrest, is facing impaired driving related charges.

In South Australia, you can tow up to 3.50m width under the ‘code of practice for the transport of indivisible items’ but not at night and no travel between 7-9am and 4-6pm Monday to Friday in the metropolitan area. Or you can get a $78 annual permit (plus a one-off $51 for the vehicle listing) to have no travel time restrictions and with the permit (for light vehicle, that is, less than 4.5 tonnes) you can travel on all SA roads.

Finally, a copy of the NSW Light Vehicle Agricultural and Load Exemption Ministerial Order 2015 (printed or electronic, so long as it’s legible) must be carried with you to show to the police if you’re pulled up.

Mounties with the BC Highway Patrol in Kelowna say they've impounded more than 545 vehicles for excessive speed and aggressive driving so far this year. That works out to more than 1.6 per day.

You can’t travel in poor-visibility conditions (fog, heavy rain, smoke) or other conditions where visibility is less than 250m. You can’t tow closer than 200m behind another oversize vehicle except when overtaking or in an urban area.

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Police in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley are investigating the second sudden death of a homeless person within the past two weeks, prompting a local social advocate to sound the alarm about worsening weather.

Getting the boat to and from the ramp can be a whole new world of regulation, and unfortunately, you’ll have to get your head around the rules to stay legal in all States.

Be aware that if you add extras to your trailer (such as an electric winch) that weight will become part of your payload.

When paramedic Jim Barnes left his home in Fort St. John to go hunting on Oct. 18, he asked his partner Micaela Sawyer — who’s also a paramedic — if she wanted to join him. She declined, so Barnes took the couple’s dog Murphy, an 18-month-old red golden retriever with him.

Armed with a growing file of clues, New York police on Friday were scouring surveillance videos and asking the public for help in their search for the masked assailant who gunned down a UnitedHealth executive on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk.

If your trailer, your boat and everything in it weighed exactly 3500kg, you would have to have at least 250kg on the towball, because you can’t exceed the GTM figure in this hypothetic scenario of 3250kg.

“What I really hope we don’t see is these drones being used as a tool of convenience or as a routine part of police operations because they are potentially quite invasive,” Jackson said.

The Canadian government is expanding its list of banned firearms, adding hundreds of additional makes, models and their variants, effective immediately.

Ingram added the department has no plans to incorporate facial recognition into the drone program, and that it does not inform the public with every drone launch because there may be tactical considerations for flights.

“So, while it does livestream for scene assessment, we’re not actually recording anything unless there’s evidentiary value,” he said.

Lethbridge has seen its population of people experiencing homelessness increase significantly over recent years, but help is coming, as construction is underway on an expansion of the Lethbridge Shelter.

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One woman has been sent to hospital as Stratford Police investigate an intimate violence investigation Thursday morning.

A Lethbridge police community peace officer has been charged with an off-duty incident stemming from more than 10 years ago.

Subtract kerb mass from GVM and you have your payload — that’s the weight of everything in and on your vehicle (kerb mass always includes the vehicle’s fluids and depending on the manufacturer, a full tank of fuel and weight of a driver, which the manufacturer will stipulate in the owner’s manual).

A Winnipeg veteran wants to bring back some holiday spirit to his community. To get it done, he is camping out at Higgins and Main for 10 days.

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Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why.

Calgary city council has defeated a motion to rezone a piece of land in Glenmore Landing to allow for a high-density development in the area.

Acting Staff Sgt. Jim Ingram said the drone will be used to respond to motor vehicle incidents, assist with missing persons cases, and track fleeing suspects.

You’ve bought the boat, got the licence to drive it, and know all the rules about how to move it around safely on the water. Or so you thought. Pinged! In some areas, authorities are cracking down on oversized trailerboat rigs, while in others departments like insurance you may pay an even bigger price for towing illegally.

“This is what other scholars have referred to as the militarization of policing,” said Christopher Schneider, a sociology professor at Brandon University who researches technology in policing.

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Tasmania shares all the rules above except for the 200m distance behind another oversize vehicle rule. There are time and place restrictions for oversize towing, which you can see in this document here.

Maximum trailer width is 2.50m nationwide, which is fine for Aussie boats but can put owners of some US boats over the limit. Many larger US boats have a 2.59m beam width, pushing them into the oversize category. To tow such a boat, the rules are slightly different in each state

A study into the devastating wildfires that struck British Columbia's Okanagan region in 2023 has recommended that government and industry limit development in high-fire-risk areas.

As for NSW, oversize trailerboats up to 2.70m width cannot travel between sunset and midnight and can only travel between midnight and sunrise in certain areas.

Two people from southern Ontario have been charged in connection with a liquor store robbery Wednesday in the Town of Thessalon. The suspects were caught after trying to flee on Highway 17 and hiding the booze in a snowbank.

First, you’ll need to learn weight definitions that are crucial for towing legally. So let’s start by getting the terminology right so we’re all on the same and legal page.

A Saskatoon-based dog rescue operator has been ordered to pay over $27,000 in damages to five women after a judge ruled she defamed them in several Facebook posts.

The department launched its initial drone program in 2020. This year, Delta police partnered with Candrone and spent around $30,000, Ingram said. The drone features infrared technology, a zoom camera and the ability to live stream.

In Queensland, at night, a yellow rotating warning light must be displayed. The maximum speed limit when towing an overwidth boat is 90km/h outside built up areas.

For Victoria, overwidth boats are classed as Class O vehicles under the Road Safety (Vehicles) Regulations 2009 and can be up to 3.50m wide. Oversize boats must have a yellow flashing safety beacon when travelling at night.