This weekend RSA Canada launched a road safety campaign in Toronto. TruceTO aims to restore empathy between drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. City streets require everyone to share the road, however too often cars and bikes can feel like opponents fighting an urban turf war. This conflict isn’t helped when issues like bike lanes and parking […]
IBC Innovation Agenda
The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) have released an Innovation Agenda for Ontario’s insurance industry. The report contains four excellent recommendations for the industry which miBroker fully supports. Allowing all insurance communications and transactions to be completed and delivered electronically if the consumer provides the necessary consent. Allowing insurers to provide consumers with the option […]
UBI – Usage Based Insurance
Usage based insurance (UBI), sometime known as telematics, is a technology that combines telecommunications and measuring. Specifically, these are devices that measure how you drive. Information such as how hard a driver breaks, or how quickly they accelerate is recorded by most vehicles. In addition to being recorded by the vehicle, there are smartphone apps […]
The 15 Cars That Owners Keep for 15 Years or More
Do you remember where you were in 2003? Jean Chretien was the Prime Minister of Canada. In Toronto Mel Lastman was our Mayor, at least for a few more months. Popular films included Love actually, Kill Bill and the critically acclaimed masterpiece The Room. Perhaps surprisingly, there are still quite a few cars on the […]