Driving

15 Ultimate Parking Jobs

If you think you’ve seen some of the worst driving in your neighbourhood, or even online, you haven’t seen anything yet…

Sit back and enjoy (or gasp in shock at) our picks for the worst of the worst of the worst in four eye-popping categories.

Buckle up!

Ultimate parking moxy

When you’re REALLY in a hurry…

As with all the other parking jobs in the videos in this post, DO NOT ATTEMPT!!! Unlike all the other clips in this post, the parking jobs in this first compilation reel are done by drivers who – legal-or-not – seem to have mastered driving…and then some…(Note: yes, the last one is totally fake…the rest are most certainly not.)

Tips For Avoiding Wildlife Collisions

According to a 2006 Globe and Mail article, you are 4-5 times more likely to die in a car crash than by homicide. While many types of car crashes can easily be avoided (don’t speed, stay off the Berry, don’t drink and drive, etc..) run-ins with wildlife are a little trickier to steer clear of.

What are the risks?
Though the odds of actually dying from hitting a large animal on the road among those who get in an accident are around 0.05% in Ontario, your odds of being in any sort of accident with a large animal average around 1% or about 14,000 such accidents reported per year.

The exact figure for residents of the municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, for example, is 1.14% per person and 2.1% per vehicle.

5 Things You Can Do With An International Driving Permit

An International Driving Permit (IDP) allows you to operate a motor vehicle in another country when accompanied by your valid Ontario driver’s license. The IDP – not a license to operate a motor vehicle on its own – is slightly larger than a standard passport and is essentially a multiple-language translation of your existing driver’s license.

Winter Getaways You Can Drive to in Less Than Four Hours

Whether you’re looking to ring in the New Year or just play in the snow, there are thousands of ways to get away from it all within a half-days’ drive of your home this winter.

Below are some of the funnest destinations you may or may not have thought of, along with a selection of the cities that fall within a roughly four-hour radius of them…

14 Boutique Villages for Holiday Shopping

Why fight for a parking spot in a big city mall, sweating through miles of indoor noise and advertising, only to buy the same things everyone is buying for everyone else?

We know it’s depressing… But we mention because we have a plan:

Why not spend next weekend on a boutique-town-crawl in search of something unique and interesting from a locally-owned shop or gallery?

You may find just what you never knew you were looking for…And perhaps along the way, you may find a little slice of life in small-town Canada…

Scenic Drives That Make You Proud To Be A Canadian

Few countries are as shaped by the land as much as Canada:

From soaring mountains to mossy fjords to grasslands to more lakes and rivers than anywhere else on Earth, our national identity is all about the sea, the sky and the open road that connects it.

Try out these patriotic road trips for a heightened feeling of pride in our land, from sea to sea…

Halloween in Ontario - Scary Trips and Destinations

Spooky, eerie, and just weird: Upper Canada is full of history, and not all of it is fit for squeamish folk around a campfire or lantern of days-gone-by.

From spectral leftovers of brutal battles, to lost settlements, to screaming passageways, and a seeming reversal of gravity itself, there’s no shortage of creepy places to drive to and see in Ontario.

11 GPS Gadgets For Your Car

No longer out-of reach multi-thousand-dollar frills built into luxury cars, add-on GPS units can cost as little as a fill-up for a large SUV today (well, during an especially expensive week at the pumps.)

Now, you’ve got no excuse for picking one of these up. While you’re at it, here are some of the coolest gizmos you can add to truly trick-out your automotive navigation system:

15 of the craziest things we’ve EVER seen on vehicles

There are roof-racks and there are bike carriers. There are suction-cup animals and there are tissue-box-holders…

…And then there are car-add-ons so far-out that they challenge reason: Things so bizarre, one wonders how they even end-up as street-legal.

Though you won’t find any of these ridiculous implements in your local automotive section, they all bear mention here for anyone who loves a good laugh on a long, relaxing drive:

12 of the Most Bizarre Car Insurance Claims of All Time

From frozen poo to corrosive cow saliva to accident-causing potatoes, there’s no shortage of stupid stunts, crazy claims, and outrageous accidents from the world’s diciest drivers.

Here’re our picks for the cream of the crop, er, should we say, the bottom of the barrel: