Canada: Right turn on red?

[Ms_Macphisto]

@Muffin

Make that turning left onto a one-way street from a one way street.

Though according to that link, it is ok to turn left from a two-way street onto a one-way street on a red light in BC. I never knew that. Seeing as I’m fairly sure I’ve never seen anyone do that, I doubt that anyone else knows that either, so I don’t think it’s something I’ll try out any time soon.

[Muffin]

In Nunavut (all 770,000 suqare miles of it), there is no traffic light to turn at or go through, although Iqualiut has considered installing one: http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut020712/news/iqaluit/20712_4.html

However, parking spaces are being laid out in Iqualiut. One resident has stated: “This is the first time we have ever seen poles in Iqaluit, so I don’t like it.” http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/print/iq-parking-10112005

[Speaker_for_the_Dead]

@Bearflag70

The importance of coming to a complete stop on your driving test was rammed home.

Ah, yes. Touche ;).

[Queuing]

@chrisk

I grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, which my mom used to say is “the only town where it’s legal to turn left on red without a sign.”

(In a lot of downtown-to-west side Hamilton, almost all the streets are one-way, and where a one-way street meets a one-way street, the same rules apply to turning left on red that usually apply to turning right on red - assuming that turning left won’t have you going the wrong way down the street of course.)

I went to school in Hamilton, and while that may have been true at one time, it always seemed to me (particularly in the downtown core where most of the 1 way streets are) that there was always a sign forbidding you to do so. I always hated that.

[Rodd_Hill]

Well, since no-one has really answered the OP (what is the deal in British Columbia?):

(3) Despite subsection (1), and except when a right turn permitted by this subsection is prohibited by a sign at an intersection, the driver of a vehicle facing the red light, and which in obedience to it is stopped as closely as practicable to a marked crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if there is no marked crosswalk, as closely as practicable to the intersection, may cause the vehicle to make a right turn, but the driver must yield the right of way to all pedestrians and vehicles lawfully proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection.

From the BC Motor Vehicle Act, Chapter 318.