A Toronto Driver Was Stopped By Police For Zoom Calling At 100 km/h

"Zoom calls are a reality. Just don't do them while driving."

A Toronto Driver Was Stopped By Police For Zoom Calling At 100 km/h
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With so many people working from home during the pandemic, the work/life balance of many Torontonians has looked quite different.

But Toronto police say there is a line to be drawn when it comes to being on Zoom calls in your car, which is why one driver got stopped on the Gardiner Expressway today.

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Police say the driver was "unbelievably" in a Zoom conference call while driving at 100 kilometres per hour on the Gardiner.

"Zoom meetings are a reality," police tweeted. "Just don't do them when driving."

It's not the first time Ontario police have pulled someone over for trying to get some work done on their phones; in 2019, a Kitchener man got busted by police for watching a YouTube tutorial while driving.

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    Cormac O'Brien was an Associate Editor at Narcity Canada, covering all things exciting and trending about Canada. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Journalism from the University of Victoria, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper and was awarded the BCYNA Community News Scholarship for his writing. He was also the producer and co-host of Now On Narcity, Narcity's flagship podcast.

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