“Police HATE this file” and want municipalities to take it Sault Ste. Marie and Cornwall are both “reviewing” or “clarifying” vehicle-for-hire regulations. The timing is unusual, given that Ontario is in the middle of a pilot involving rideshare services. Ontario
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Ali Enad of Coventry Connection trains professional drivers in Para and Accessible Transit. Photo: Taxi News
Will robo-taxis offer Wheelchair Accessible services? A short, sweet, blunt tidbit of common sense is a gift to be treasured. In the military it’s called a BGO, or “blinding flash of the glaringly obvious.” For example, once when I
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Ali Enad of Coventry Connections delivered an information-packed presentation at the Ontario East Municipal Conference on September 9, 2026. Photo: Taxi News
Coventry’s Enad provides a framework for service at OEMC Accessible transportation is not just a ride, but “a chain of responsibility,” Ali Enad of Coventry Connections told an attentive room of municipal stakeholders on September 9th. Enad, Coventry’s General Manager
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Doug Ford and Mark Carney keep telling Canadians "We are the Americans BIGGEST CUSTOMER for automobiles." Actually, the BIGGEST CUSTOMER for American automobiles is the Americans themselves. Canada represents a very small fraction of all sales. Image: Taxi News
Tariffs and trade wars will give Canadians lots of practice Update: This article was first published in 2020, when Canadians were figuring out how to cope with the financial pain of COVID-19. In honour of the needless 2026 trade “war”
Read More“Too much time ‘aligning’” Khosrowshahi explains If Uber was a money manager, it would be Bernie Madoff. If Uber was a doctor, it would be Dr. Kevorkian and if Uber was a nurse, it would be Elizabeth Wettlaufer. If Uber
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I felt physically ill when I saw the Ontario trillium logo on the door of a pot shop in my tiny town of Newcastle, Ontario, which actually has two giant stores to serve a population of 10,170 people. Image: Taxi News
Alcohol, marijuana, gambling, fake news waste time and brain cells This article was updated at 5pm Sept. 1st to include reference to Alzheimer’s/dementia Something about Canadian provinces boycotting American alcohol products got stuck in my brain last year and I
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Aaron Taxi CEO Mike Sanders says he has no idea who is enforcing what law, when and where with regard to Ontario's new rideshare regulations. Neither the City of Sudbury, the MTO or the OPP appear to know, either. Image: Aaron Taxi
Sudbury firm “at a loss” to understand how laws will be enforced Aaron Taxi of Sudbury believes it should not have to pay to renew its Taxi licenses while government officials figure out Ontario’s new Vehicle for Hire laws. In
Read MoreRush to new rideshare by-law which favours American firms Cornwall’s Choice Taxi has retained Conway Litigation as the border city appears ready to write new by-laws legalizing rideshare in September, 2026. Farooq Muhammad of Choice Taxi told Taxi News he
Read MoreTechnologists for Democracy (TfD) hosted an online session to discuss Waymo’s efforts to run an autonamous vehicle pilot in Toronto. The group was founded in June 2025 in response to Magna International’s self-driving delivery vehicle pilot, and is currently monitoring
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