Media Advisory - Too drive to drunk home? Had a f-f-f-few too many? - Insurance Bureau of Canada teams up with Ontario Safety League to combat impaired driving this holiday season

    TORONTO, Nov. 3 /CNW/ - Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), on behalf of
Canada's home, car and business insurers, is joining forces with the Operation
Red Nose provincial host, Ontario Safety League (OSL), to get holiday revelers
- and their vehicles - home safely in seven Ontario communities during the
holiday season.
    Operation Red Nose is a free designated-driver service that helps keep
roads safe. Last year, in Ontario alone, the program provided 4,931 safe rides
home with the help of more than 3,000 dedicated volunteers.
    At a news conference to be held on Thursday, November 6, Don Forgeron,
Vice-President, Ontario, IBC, will announce details of the 2008 program.
Special guests will include The Honourable James Bradley, Minister of
Transportation; Brian Patterson, President, OSL; and Operation Red Nose's
mascot, Rudy.
    The news conference will take place at 11:30 a.m. at Queen's Park,
Legislative Building, Committee Room 228.
    B-roll and other visuals will be available. Telephone interviews can also
be scheduled following the announcement.

For further information: to confirm your attendance or to schedule an
advance interview for November 6, please contact: Ellen Woodger at (416)
483-2358 or ellen.woodger@sympatico.ca; James Geuzebroek at (416) 362-2031
ext. 4364