Thursday, October 8, 2026

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All Taxi drivers take cash, CTA President clarifies in PSA

Toronto scam involves man claiming his Taxi driver won’t accept cash “ALL Taxi drivers take cash,” says Marc Andre Way, President of the Canadian Taxi Association. “There are NO Taxi drivers that do not take cash.” In response to recent

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Taxi drivers join Farmers to protest government in France

Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen continues to report on workers’ protests in Europe. In addition to the German Truckers who launched the protest (inspired by Canada’s Freedom Convoy in 2022), French Farmers and Truckers in several other nations have also taken

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“It’s all bullshit” driver says of Uber’s UFCW “agreement”

UFCW called a “yellow union” selected by Uber, not drivers “It’s all bullshit,” says Uber driver Earla Phillips of Uber’s January 26 announcement of an “agreement” with the organization United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) in Canada. Phillips, an organizer

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How COVID impacted democracy: let us count the ways

In writing “Pandemic Panic,” co-author Christine Van Geyn notes,” We have observed a phenomenon of the surreal, sometimes inane, often unprecedented and unusual public health measures taken over the roughly three-year pandemic period being ‘memory holed’, where the mind completely

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