{"id":32880,"date":"2014-11-27T01:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2014-11-27T01:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:03:31","slug":"group-wants-end-to-mandatory-medical-tests-for-drivers-over-age-of-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/27\/group-wants-end-to-mandatory-medical-tests-for-drivers-over-age-of-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Group wants end to mandatory medical tests for drivers over age of 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_194593490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33016\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_194593490.jpg\" alt=\"old man elderly senior citizen driving\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_194593490.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_194593490-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_194593490-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON &#8212; A group pushing for an end to mandatory medical tests for drivers over 75 says it has reason to hope after a meeting with Alberta&#8217;s new transportation minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Elder Advocates of Alberta Society sat down Tuesday morning with new minister Wayne Drysdale and gave him a massive briefing package arguing that the tests are ageist and unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Ruth Adria says while he didn&#8217;t make any commitments to scrap the policy, Drysdale did make one promise that leaves her optimistic &#8212; that he would go through the package himself.<\/p>\n<p>However, Adria says Drysdale did tell her that similar policies are currently being drafted by the Alberta Motor Association and Alberta Health Services, which Adria admits is worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>Adria says it&#8217;s silly that the province is spending millions monitoring what are statistically Alberta&#8217;s safest drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; A group pushing for an end to mandatory medical tests for drivers over 75 says it has reason &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}