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CTV News
20 hours ago
- CTV News
What should London do about dangerous driving on residential streets?
Two city councillors question why more isn't being done to address the issue. CTV's Daryl Newcombe has the story. Excessive speed. Rolling stops. Short cuts. Most Londoners are fed up with the dangerous driving that plagues residential streets across the city. But many drivers continue the bad behaviours - unabated. 'They just gun it straight down here,' said Andrew Roberts as he points down two blocks of Waterloo Street in the SoHo neighbourhood. He and his neighbours have lined their boulevards with lawn signs imploring drivers to slow down. However, only a fraction of the drivers witnessed by CTV News on Wednesday afternoon obeyed the 40km/h speed limit on the residential street. 073025 - Driver passing sign A driver passes a 40km/h speed limit sign on Waterloo Street in SoHo. (Daryl Newcombe/CTV News London) Roberts said cut-thru traffic avoiding the construction and congestion on Wellington Street and Horton Street is worst during rush hour. 'They're trying to find the fastest way to get home and cutting through residential areas at excessive speeds because of the backlog and bottlenecking (of) the traffic,' he explained. Residents of Waterloo Street are not alone in their concern. At the most recent meeting of the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee at city hall, several councillors expressed their frustration about dangerous driving and cut-thru traffic along residential streets in their wards. 'The cut through traffic is getting worse, and worse and worse,' lamented Coun. Sam Trosow, who recently hosted a public meeting about traffic safety in the Old North neighbourhood. Coun. Peter Cuddy expressed concern about drivers that pass by schools in the area of northeast London that he represents, 'It's an issue of people speeding, and careless driving.' The discussion about dangerous driving in residential neighbourhoods was sparked by a request from neighours in Old South for a school crossing guard at the intersection of Wortley Road and Emery Street. Coun. McAlister said he's seen drivers pass a school bus with its lights on picking up children in front of his home in east London. In recent years, city hall has targeted hotspots for dangerous driving with a variety of tools including traffic calming speed humps, photo-radar near schools and speed limit reductions to 40 km/h on most residential streets. McAlister expressed hope that a reconstitution of the traffic division within the London Police Service (LPS) will also curb some of the behaviours. 'I hope LPS is listening,' he told the committee. 'We obviously need those traffic infractions dealt with.' Roberts acknowledges that the dangerous speeds and other traffic violations on Waterloo Street are part of a citywide problem that has only gotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic, 'They just use this place as a racetrack.' He'd like to see city hall develop effective strategies that could apply to neighbourhoods citywide—including SoHo. 'I think the city needs to wake up and realize that this is a bigger issue. It's not just me. It's not just one neighbour.' Councillor David Ferreira, whose ward includes the SoHo neighbourhood, recently sent a letter to civic administration seeking ideas to addressing several of the safety concerns raised by Roberts and his neighbours.
National Post
21 hours ago
- National Post
Behavox Expands Commodities Footprint with Moeve as Its Newest Customer
Article content LONDON & MONTREAL — Behavox, the leading provider of AI-driven compliance and communication surveillance solutions, is pleased to announce that Moeve, a global energy company with a commodities trading arm, has successfully gone live with Behavox's platform as part of its commitment to modernizing its surveillance and regulatory compliance oversight. This partnership marks another exciting milestone in Behavox's expanding presence in the commodities industry. Article content The implementation was completed in June 2025, making Moeve the latest addition to Behavox's growing commodities customer base. While Moeve is leveraging Behavox's best-in-class AI risk policies, the focus remains on enabling key platform capabilities, including: Article content Scenario Testing Lab – Enables ongoing, pre-deployment validation of AI models. Customers can continually test and refine risk policies using intuitive A/B testing tools that compare logic and outcomes with each upgrade or iteration. MI Reporting Suite – Provides real-time visibility into alert trends, model performance, and investigative outcomes. These insights are accessible through a self-service visual dashboard, supporting a wide range of compliance and oversight use cases. QA Alerting – A highly configurable feature that enables compliance teams to verify the accuracy of alert reviews and closures. Designed to support diverse QA frameworks, it delivers targeted oversight and accountability across a wide range of customer use cases. Article content 'We are thrilled to partner with Behavox as we continue to strengthen our compliance framework. Their approach to scenario testing and alert QA capabilities give us both improved visibility and control,' said Rok Lasan, Head of Trading Compliance at Moeve. Behavox Chief Revenue Officer, Nabeel Ebrahim added, 'We're excited to welcome Moeve to our growing network of commodities customers. At Behavox, we focus not only on delivering cutting-edge AI-enabled risk detection, but also on ensuring seamless data integration, an intuitive user experience, and the transparency modern compliance teams need to succeed. Moeve's forward-thinking approach to compliance makes them an ideal partner, and we look forward to driving meaningful, long-term value together.' Article content Aishwarya Shastri, Commodities Trading Customer Success Manager at Behavox, Article content commented: 'We take pride in our high-touch Customer Success model – designed to provide strategic, hands-on support throughout every stage of the relationship. As Moeve integrates Behavox into their compliance operations, our objective is clear: to be a long-term partner that continuously delivers value, adapts to their evolving needs, and helps them achieve their surveillance goals with confidence.' Article content As Behavox continues to grow its presence in the commodities sector, partnerships like this reflect the industry's need for next-generation compliance platforms – not only powered by cutting-edge AI surveillance, but also designed to optimize the time, efficiency, and impact of compliance teams through continuously evolving features and tools. Article content About Behavox Article content Behavox is an AI company that transforms structured and unstructured corporate data into insights that safeguard and enhance businesses. Our proprietary technology and industry-specific LLM enables users to ask and answer questions without becoming domain experts, technologists, or data scientists. Our global client base includes banks, hedge funds, commodities firms, private equity firms, crypto firms and other non-financial companies. Equipping them with quality, cost-efficient insights, our solutions empower them to: Article content Article content Article content Article content
CBC
21 hours ago
- CBC
Drop off your old batteries and keep them out of London's landfill, city says
Social Sharing London city officials are hoping a new partnership with a non-profit recycling operator will entice residents to do more to keep old batteries from winding up in the municipal landfill. The partnership with Call2Recycle Canada and its battery recycling program will see new drop-off containers installed at six city facilities, including the Canada Games Aquatic Centre, downtown library, and Storybook Gardens. Drop-off containers have been installed, but the initiative officially launches on Saturday at Storybook Gardens, where families who bring old batteries to the Touch-a-Truck event will be given discounted admission, the city said. "By simplifying and expanding our recycling services, we're making it easier for Londoners to dispose of batteries properly while providing opportunities to share the importance of recycling with our children," Mayor Josh Morgan said in a statement announcing the partnership. Residents can drop off various kinds of consumer batteries weighing less than five kilograms, including alkaline, lithium-ion, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, nickel zinc, and small sealed lead acid batteries. The goal of the partnership is to meet Londoners where they are, and make recycling batteries easier and more convenient, said Jay Stanford, the city's director of climate change, environment and waste management, in a statement. The six new drop-off locations will feature educational material showing Londoners how to dispose of batteries safely. Founded in 1997, the Toronto-based non-profit involved in the plan has worked with city hall for several years to recycle the batteries dropped off at London's four EnviroDepots. "Batteries never belong in the trash or regular recycling bin, that's the first thing I will say," said Jon McQuaid, vice president of marketing and communications for Call2Recycle Canada. "What this partnership expansion means is there's more accessible, convenient drop-off locations across the city where Londoners are going on their daily commute, or in their daily routine." Why trashing lithium ion batteries can be a fire hazard 9 months ago Batteries tossed in the garbage can pose a risk to wildlife, and can corrode in the landfill and contaminate the environment with the hazardous and toxic materials they're made of. They can also hold a residual charge, and can ignite when damaged, posing a fire and safety risk to residents and to sanitation workers. A simple online search turns up countless news stories about improperly discarded batteries exploding, starting landfill and garbage truck fires, and injuring workers. McQuaid says Call2Recycle processed more than 20,000 kilograms of batteries from London drop-off locations last year, including those it has stationed at Home Depot, Rexall, and Staples stores. "Once batteries are recycled, their components can be reused to make new products and items that we use on an everyday basis, like stainless steel appliances, golf clubs, bicycles and even new batteries," McQuaid said. Nationwide, the non-profit collected more than 6.8 million kilograms of batteries last year, a new record, along with a growing number of electric vehicle batteries. Where the new battery recycling containers can be found: East Lions Community Centre (1731 Churchill Ave) South London Community Centre (1119 Jalna Blvd) Canada Games Aquatic Centre (1045 Wonderland Rd N) Community Centre (501 Southdale Rd W) Central Public Library (251 Dundas St) Storybook Gardens (1958 Storybook Lane)
