A YouTube video that has gone somewhat viral and has received more than140,000 hits to date has a lot of people shaking their heads. It shows a Gatineau, Quebec bus driver doing paperwork while operating his bus. Several times in the 57-second video, the driver takes his hands completely off the wheel and steers the bus with his knees.

Incredibly, the transit union that represents Gatineau bus drivers is claiming an invasion of the driver’s privacy with the video, and wants to ban passengers from taking video of drivers inside public buses. As union officials see it, drivers don’t need to be stared at or ridiculed every time they do something the public doesn’t understand.

Predictably, the passenger who took the video, Jaime Hill, disagrees with the union’s stance, noting that public transportation is not the same as private transportation, and that there is no expectation of privacy for a driver of a public bus.

According to Gatineau transit officials, the driver in the video has been disciplined, but he will not be fired.

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A Calgary construction worker who became a YouTube sensation when he made a joke out of high rise construction safety has been terminated by his employer.

Last week, the president and CEO of Skyway Canada, Gary Carey, confirmed that, after an internal investigation of the incident, one employee was fired.

The video, which was posted on YouTube in October 2009, shows a number of construction workers as they worked from scaffolding on the 29th storey of a condo development under construction. One worker could be seen tossing a metal clamp and passing a co-worker a metal rod. The worker who tossed the tool was fired for violating company policies. Another worker was suspended, but allowed to return to work after the investigation, after it was determined that he wasn’t involved in the prank, and had actually voiced his objections to the other workers. A third worker involved in the video is no longer with the company.

When the video was discovered online, it was passed to company and government officials, all of whom saw the behaviour as offensive, especially since it came approximately two months after the tragic death of three-year-old Michelle Krsek, who was killed by metal roofing material that fell from a downtown Calgary high rise construction site.

Skyway still has to submit a report to Occupational Health and Safety officials.