From left, Bill Hunton, Kristi Dick, Gilles Boudreau and Martina Sauer are all school bus drivers from Edmonton who have come to Toronto to help out with the shortage. Those are some of the extreme and costly measures being taken by a consortium of Toronto school bus providers amid a driver shortage that has thrown families and schools into chaos this month. Kristi Dick, 36, is one of four Alberta drivers who agreed to come to Toronto for four to six weeks to help address the shortfall. “Our Edmonton location had a surplus, so we offered (drivers) to the Toronto consortium,” said Leslie Cross, vice-president of Canadian operations for Stock. It’s a more immediate solution than training new drivers and completing police checks, which can take three to four weeks.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 09:00 UTC