Image: City of Ottawa City of Ottawa manager Christine Hartig said its “Equity and Inclusion Lens” handbook and the policies it contains were “not germaine” to the 2015 report written by KPMG. Hartig is testifying for the second day on
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Plaintiff’s lawyer Tim Conway suggested that the final report Brian Bourns and his KPMG team delivered to Ottawa in 2015 left out key findings presented in earlier studies.
“For example, the life savings of investment of plate owners, incremental values that had accrued, and the ethnic background of drivers were not mentioned in the conclusion to this report,” Conway proposed to Bourns. “Did you ever use Ottawa’s ‘Equity Lens’?”
“Not that I’m aware of,” Bourns replied.
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It was dirty job, but somebody had to do it.
The only reason Truckers needed to take to the streets of Ottawa one year ago to protest Canada’s vaccine mandates was because the groups who actually get paid to oppose government bailed completely on their jobs.
Here is a list of well-established, well-organized, well-spoken, well-funded professional groups whose purpose on this planet is to speak truth to power. Remember, had any of these groups done the job they get paid to do (mostly by taxpayers) there would have been no need for the Truckers to spend their own money driving across the nation to protest in Ottawa.
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Uber Canada’s head office in Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Taxi News Plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas Conway and KPMG Senior Partner Brian Bourns engaged in a tense debate on what constitutes “improved customer service” at the Ottawa Taxi trial February 1st. Conway questioned
Read More In a stunning revelation, KPMG Senior Partner Brian Bourns admitted he never saw, or used, Ottawa’s “Equity and Inclusion Lens” handbook before designing and delivering stakeholder sessions with the Taxi industry in 2015. Bourns and his team wrote the report
Read MoreProceedings in the Ottawa Taxi trial ended at the noon hour today. The plaintiff’s lawyer Abdalla Barqawi finished his questioning of Deputy City Manager Lesley Donnelly earlier than anticipated. A good deal of the morning’s cross-examination covered questions concerning Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
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At an April 11, 2012 Council meeting, Councillors directed staff to study “All possible options for restructuring taxi plate fees, including capturing the value of such plates for the taxpayers of the City of Ottawa.”
Ottawa’s Deputy City Manager Lesley Donnelly began providing testimony for the City of Ottawa in the Ottawa Taxi trial on January 26, and remained on the stand all day Friday, January 27th.
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There were lots of grandfathers and grandmothers at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa last January.
Author Donna LaFramboise wants Canadians to know their stories, and so her book/website project “Opa’s Convoy Letters” was born: “I want to make sure kids know: whatever else you might have heard, when your grandfather went to went to Ottawa, people told him he was a hero.”
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A curb-lane patio on Yonge Street. Photo: Sue-Ann Levy Professional drivers question the idea of tables near traffic The City of Toronto has proposed that the CaféTO program allowing restaurant patios to extend into the curb lane be made permanent.
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