53.1 percent of Ottawa Taxi plate owners are Arabs. Image: Ornstein report The following are excerpts of sociologist Dr. Michael Orstein’s expert report regarding Metro Taxi vs the City of Ottawa: “Table 2 provides striking evidence of a highly racialized
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At least one group is planning to send busloads of demonstrators to the Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet retreat at the Hamilton Convention Centre on January 23rd.
“This week is crucial. Prime Minister Trudeau and all federal Ministers are meeting in Hamilton from January 23rd to 25th to plan out their priorities for the year. If you act now, we can win historic immigration changes. If all the Ministers at the meeting support regularization, then Cabinet can create an uncapped program through which all undocumented people and their families can apply for permanent residence as early as February,” reads the website page migrantrights.ca.
Read MoreDr. Michael Ornstein, who is a Sociology expert and professor at York University, will start providing evidence today. He will speak about the social and ethnic make-up of the taxi industry and the historical disadvantages that its members have faced.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared flustered when asked a question about the upcoming anniversary of the Truckers’ Convoy, several social media outlets report. A reporter pointed out that there was a “heightened police presence and protestors outside” and asked Trudeau if he had reflected on the meaning of the Convoy in the past 12 months.
“I don’t know….I think that’s a question you would be better to ask Pierre Poilievre, he seems a lot closer to the Convoy,” Trudeau snapped.
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On January 11th, Rita Smith of Road Warrior News and Bruce Outridge of Lead Pedal Media got to cover just the first group that failed to do the job for which they are paid, resulting in the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy.
Rita and Bruce will pick up the conversation on Wednesday, January 18th on the Lead Pedal Radio Show at 10am EST. You can access the live program by clicking this link to Lead Pedal Radio.
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Image: Amazon Metro Taxi president Marc Andre Way wrapped up more than a week of testimony by summarizing key differences between Uber and Taxi. Asked by Attorney Marion Sandilands of Conway Litigation if consumers are protected by ridesharing by-laws as they
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The Ottawa Taxi court proceedings resume again today for the third week. Metro Taxi’s Marc Andre Way is testifying again; to date, he is the only person who has been questioned on the stand. Representatives of the City of Ottawa, against whom the suit has been filed, has not been questioned to date.
The focus of today’s questioning at the outset has been Accessible services, which are not a revenue stream but operate on a cost-recovery basis.
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To all who is following the Ottawa Taxi lawsuit proceedings on the livestream, please note that court is cancelled today and will resume tomorrow, January 17th.
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Rita and Bruce, together again! At least for a day. Road Warrior News publisher Rita Smith will be the guest on Lead Pedal Radio to talk about “The 10 groups that had to fail at their jobs to make the
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