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Philomena Comerford, President and CEO of Baird MacGregor Insurance Brokers LP.

Taxi industry insurer submission on the significance of training

November 9, 2021 Guest Contributor

Baird MacGregor, as one of the preeminent insurers of Taxi and Limo drivers in Toronto for more than four decades, takes the opportunity of this Review to remind the City of its commitment to design and implement a driver training and testing program. This program should include defensive driving and in-car components, as recommended by its own “Framework for Change.”[3]

By doing so, Toronto can help stabilize its critical passenger transportation infrastructure by keeping insurers engaged inside its boundaries.

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The Rosenberg/Lipson murders: incident from the Mean Streets

November 6, 2021 Guest Contributor

Not long after I met Jesse at the Chuvalo-Felstein fight, a truly horrific happening transpired. Late on the night of April 22, 1977, Jesse’s friend Ian Rosenberg and a woman named Joan Lipson were brutally murdered in an upstairs bedroom of a house on Strathearn Boulevard. Some person who possessed a key to Joan Lipson’s home let himself in the side door, crept up the stairs, and ruthlessly shot the couple to death as they lay in bed. A housekeeper, who was trying to sleep in an adjoining bedroom, heard Joan Lipson cry out, “Ian, there’s someone in the room!” Then came the sound of gunfire.

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ATOOL submission to vehicle for hire review

November 2, 2021 Guest Contributor

e City of Toronto has been experiencing massive congestion due to a number of activities that it is happening here including the introduction of an uncontrolled number of PTC cars on the road, plus implementation of bike lanes and constant construction projects.

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Why do the British drive on the left?

October 31, 2021 Guest Contributor

Have you ever wondered why the British drive on the left?

There is an historical reason for this; it’s all to do with keeping your sword hand free!

In the Middle Ages you never knew who you were going to meet when travelling on horseback. Most people are right-handed, so if a stranger passed by on the right of you, your right hand would be free to use your sword if required. (Similarly, medieval castle staircases spiral in a clockwise direction going upwards, so the defending soldiers would be able to stab down around the twist but those attacking (going up the stairs) would not.)

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My Worst-Ever Incident with a Dispatcher

October 30, 2021 Guest Contributor

Often, he was amusing and he had an understated comical way of expressing himself. And he’d play pranks on the radio. A French Canadian from Montreal, Jesse would say that he came to Toronto “by skating up the St. Lawrence in the wintertime.” Or, gratuitously, he’d say something like, “Nineteen-nineteen, we’ve just had a lady phone Foobler Taxi who says she lost her dog in your car. It’s a big black dog, four feet high and 150 pounds. Would you look in your back seat and see if it’s there?” It doesn’t seem that funny when it’s written, but Jesse deadpanned it in a way that made it hilarious.

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Supply chain “crisis” update: leadership is the missing ingredient

October 23, 2021 Guest Contributor

yan Peterson of Flexport actually rented a boat and went out to see what is happening in the Port of Long Beach. Here is his Twitter thread report, what he learned and what he thinks. This is the best “up close and personal” report yet seen:

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Taxi Dispatchers: A checkered crowd

October 22, 2021 Guest Contributor

Over the 2025 holiday season,Taxi News will re-post some of thebest, funniest, and most memorable contributionswritten by drivers over the years.Thank you to our contributors! Click here to read Section #1 “My Beginning as a Taxi Driver” Click here to

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What time is it? What DAY is it?

October 17, 2021 Guest Contributor

That light you’re seeing outside is dawn, not dusk.

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I Finally Figure It Out

October 16, 2021 Guest Contributor

While I knew him, Larry hired a new seven-days-a-week driver and agreed to supply this fellow with a brand-new car. On his first night, the new guy smashed Larry’s new vehicle into a cement flower pot on Eglinton Avenue East, causing four thousand dollars’ damage.

How could anybody with any sense do that? The guy had the car towed back to Larry’s Garage and left a note in the night drop box: “I’m not leaving you the money for the shift until I find out whether you are going to fire me or not.” If Larry was a bit of a pain – and I came to regard him as such – there may have been quite a few real provocations. I guess that might have been true of the other fleet operators I have been writing about, too, even including Mr. Good Guy, world-class weasel that he was.