Image: Google Maps Torrential rains are causing floods and mudslides in British Columbia, including major roads which connect to the Port of Vancouver. Environment Canada reported 48mm of rainfall for November 15. Road service agencies and private citizens have tweeted
Read MorePhoto: US Border Services The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the United States Customs and Border Protection are organizing a FAST enrolment event November 29 to December 3, 2021. The event will take place at the Champlain Enrolment Centre
Read MoreTraining for drivers of vehicles for hire was scheduled to be debated at the November 9, 2021 Toronto City Council meeting, however, it was moved over to be considered as the first private item on Wednesday, November 10th. (The item may need to be considered by Council in camera if a City lawyer is asked to provide advice about an ongoing lawsuit against the City.)
Read MoreBehrouz Kamseh represented the Taxi industry at the Global Day for Climate Justice at Queen’s Park on November 6th. “People were receptive to our message, once we explained it to them,” Kamseh says. “Almost no one realizes that up until
Read More“Everyone wants our environment to be cleaner, with less emissions from automobiles,” says Behrouz Khamseh. “Taxis are very much a part of that solution; up until 2016, there were only 5500 licensed Taxis driving in Toronto. When Uber arrived, Toronto allowed almost 100,000 additional vehicles for hire. The decision to allow this destroyed any progress Toronto might have hoped to make in reducing traffic, congestion, emissions, and pollution.”
Read MoreOn Sunday, October 24, 2021, at 8:48 p.m., the Toronto Police Service received a call for a taxi cab that had collided with a fence in the Pharmacy Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East area.
Officers arrived to find the cab driver alone in the vehicle. He was unconscious and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
He was transported to hospital via emergency run but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased in hospital.
The victim has been identified as Christopher Jung, 73, of Toronto.
Read Morea Beck Taxi driver has been shot and rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. We are assisting police in any way we can.
Read MoreOn October 21st, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that a standardized Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination is now available to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, and is expected to be available in the other provinces soon.
Canada is working with international partners in an effort to obtain recognition abroad to facilitate world travel.
Read MoreOn October 20, the Ontario government announced it intends to introduce legislation that would, if passed, allow delivery workers access to company washrooms at businesses where they are delivering or picking up items.
Consultations conducted by the Ontario Workforce Recovery Advisory Committee have indicated that couriers, truck drivers, and people who deliver food, including those for online delivery platform are often denied use of a washroom at businesses they serve.
“For professional drivers and delivery workers who have been on the frontlines of the pandemic for the past 19 months, the inability to access restroom facilities has been a major irritant. This legislation recognizes the essential work that these men and women have been doing and provides them with the working conditions and respect they deserve,” says Teamsters Canada president Francois Laporte.
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