Originally Posted by closetbiker

How's this for astounding ignorance.

In Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Safety Council passed a resolution calling for helmet legislation in the province. Public health professionals and staff/volunteers of various injury control organizations (Saskatchewan Institute on Prevention of Handicaps, Aquired Brain Injury association and a few others) are lobbying vigorously to institute a helmet law there.

The day before the safety council AGM, CBC radio had a phone in on helmet legislation. One caller, a local driving instructor, called in to complain about cyclists who don't know their place, "acting like cars instead of bicycles", "aggressive" cyclists who "ride down the middle of the lane instead of getting out of the way" and there's "actually an organization that promotes this kind of (bad behaviour), teaching people that they can ride bikes in the street" .