John Robson: City Snowplows Should Stop Blocking Driveways

Commentary How much would you estimate that a wall of snow and ice roughly two and a half feet high, four feet wide, and 10 feet long weighs? I ask because the City of Ottawa just bestowed one upon me yet again, completely blocking my driveway yet again, and I’m trying to figure out how exactly to thank them. I did phone to ask whether they were clearing snow that day. But as it was the weekend most bureaucrats were not working, unlike the peasants toiling in stores, restaurants, and so forth whose trip to their place of employment they had just systematically rendered impossible yet again....