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Seven people have been arrested after an Ontario Provincial Police-led (OPP) investigation uncovered alleged fraudulent activity related to G-test driver examinations in the Greater Toronto Area.

In September 2024, the OPP launched an investigation into suspected irregularities during driver examinations for G licences in Ontario, the police force said in a news release.

According to the OPP’s Serious Fraud Office, it examined allegations that bribes were exchanged for “favourable consideration” during the testing of specific applicants.

Seven people were arrested as a result of the probe.

They are Farhad Sanders, 43, of Maple, Ont.; Abdulkarim Afrayim Sava, 65, of Brampton; Ahmed Ismail Ghanchi, 44; Michelle Miceli, 49; and Shanna Marie Tozer, 43, all of Toronto; and Elizabeth Taylor, 50, of Mississauga.

Police said the accused face a combined total of 25 charges, including conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, breach of trust, money laundering, and secret commissions.

The accused were all released from police custody and are expected to appear in court later this week.

Anybody know what's wrong with bus driving companies? They seem to shout from the rooftops about how they need drivers so badly, how great the benefits are, how they'll pay for your B license, how they'll never work you on weekends and national holidays but when you apply, you never hear anything back. Over the years, I've applied to so many in my area and they never pick up the phone or respond to your application or emails. Absolute crickets.

There are bubbles of people in Canada that vehemently deny that there is any nepotism in the Canadian job market. And yet, the signs are all around us.

I go to the library and the pages there don't know how to operate computers. I'm someone who's self taught software as well as hardware expert and can build a computer from scratch and have experience as a user support technician despite no formal training but I'd never be good enough for either a page intern position, nor a user support technician position in today's job market.

I just opened a new bank account and their banking app was an abomination, FULL to the brim with UX design errors. I'm someone who has worked as a UX designer on projects but I guarantee you this banking company would send me an auto rejection email right away than fire their existing designers for designing their app so horrendously that it puts the entire banking industry to shame.

I've even tried to learn better interviewing skills by attending specialized classes to help in my job hunt. The mentor there was absolutely clueless and spoke in broken English (no hate; English is not my first language either) but as someone who has, at the peak of my career, been on interview panels and speak fluent English, if I apply for this job at this company to be a specialist, they will send me a rejection email saying, "We moved forward with better candidates".

These are the better candidates that I see around me. The ones who made it through the process yet can't do their jobs worth shit. Canada got so lost in a mad rush for certifications, that it doesn't give a shit about merit anymore. Add nepotism on top, especially in government offices, which have mandatory checks and balances implemented against that - but where there is a will, there is a way, and you'll figure out pretty quickly that the Canadian job market doesn't care if you have what it takes to do the job they're advertising.

"It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know" is so true in Canada. I'm a Permanent Resident and I feel so miffed that Canada is like this because I'm not used to this. It feels unfair to me, it feels disrespectful towards actual talent to me. But that's the bitter reality and I know I can't do anything about it. Then, cynicism takes over and I think, "Maybe Canada deserves to drown in the productivity crisis of its own making where it prioritizes hiring the wife's friend's niece over someone who actually worked in that field". But then, it breaks my heart knowing that this country has so much potential laid to waste just because the hiring practices here have forever been broken. When I came here, I wanted to contribute to this great country and feel like a part of it's workforce. Now, I just see a broken market which outputs just enough productivity to drag itself on and justify its existence. Talent and experience are optional.

EDIT: Damn! Looks like the nepo hires are here in full force!

EDIT2: Let the statistics speak! https://www.robert-walters.ca/insights/news/blog/nepotism-in-Canadian-workplaces.html