Pots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless
Read MoreLevitt Sheikh So, let’s get this straight. Someone is feted by the entire House of Commons, introduced as having fought against Russia during the Second World War. That would be the one war, above all others, that has been carved
Read MoreThe Canadian Constitution Foundation is thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever. The book, written by the CCF’s Executive Director Joanna Baron and Litigation Director Christine van Geyn
Read MoreBy Mike Millian, President of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada Underneath the surface of the transportation industry is a movement of drivers and carriers that are embracing an incorporation model, sometimes referred to as Driver Inc. Under this
Read More‘Everybody was just doing stuff for everybody’ by Donna Laframboise During the weeks Guy and Mike sat in their trucks in Ottawa as part of the Freedom Convoy protest, some members of the public informally adopted them. Amongst these was
Read MoreTravis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways stopped in Thunder Bay recently to check out the progress on the new scale and inspection station on the east side of Thunder Bay. It is being built at a cost of over
Read More60,000 Ubers cruising empty 40% of the time represent 95% of these vehicles Following is the transcript of Kristine Hubbard’s September 21st deputation to Toronto’s Economic Development Committee. Taxi News will share transcripts of additional deputations in the days ahead.
Read MoreThe following letter has been sent to MPPs Lise Vaugeois; Kevin Holland; John Vanthof; Guy Bourgouin; and Greg Rickford Updated Sept. 25th: “not significant” corrected to “significant” in the text. ***** Good afternoon, Winter has not even begun yet and
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'The reaction from strangers has been — I'm disappointed because you were this, that and the other in our community and I don't put that together with you representing Tamara Lich,' says Lawrence Greenspon. (Alistair Steele/CBC) This photo of Edward Greenspon accompanied an April 2022 CBC news story.
There is a story behind that Greenspon Photo by Donna Laframboise In April 2022 – less than two months after the Freedom Convoy has been violently suppressed – we learned that Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich had retained the services
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