All travellers deserve the same safety standard: Herman Correction: the initial background check fee was listed as $135 when this article was posted Jan. 22. The fee is $253. Taxi News regrets the error. On Tuesday, January 27th, Halifax Regional
Read MoreRose Valland preserved memory and catalogued truth Author unknown: source Meta For 4 years, she sat at a desk while Nazis looted 20,000 artworks around her—and they never knew she understood every word they said. Paris, October 1940. The Nazis
Read MoreA message from Reza Pahlavi To all of our friends around the world, Under the yoke of the Islamic Republic, Iran is identified in your minds with terrorism, extremism, and poverty. The real Iran is a different Iran. A beautiful,
Read MoreIt’s deja-vu all over again. For the third time in my lifetime, Iranian citizens are fighting for freedom from a tyrannical government, and again I am praying for their success. First in 2009, then in 2018, and now in 2026,
Read MoreStudy reveals Instacart’s experiments led to shoppers being charged significantly different prices On January 8th, New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to online grocery shopping platform Instacart demanding more information about its use of algorithmic pricing and price-setting experiments
Read MoreI think 2026 is gonna be a long year…. When my sons were teenagers, they had an especially obnoxious habit of crowing and shouting gleefully when events broke their way, personally. “IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!” one would shout to another, aggressively
Read More“It’ll be a cold day in Hell before I even consider betraying my constituents” by Scott Anderson, Member of Parliament for Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee It’s important for my constituents to know that I, like others, have been approached by the Liberals
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John Papadakis, former East York Councillor, para-legal and firebrand, trekked from courthouse to courthouse attempting to cover Project Snowball for Taxi News. John died in 2021. Photo: Taxi News
It might have changed Uber history; instead, it got Memory Holed December 28, 2025 update: an Ontario lawyer currently involved in various Uber lawsuits contacted Taxi News to point out that there is no such lawsuit as “R vs Uber
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Technology was supposed to make ground transportation safer....no one predicted hackers would figure out how to scam Uber, Lyft, and Instacart. Image: Instagram
Young women accepted a ride from a strange man in an unmarked car because they had the idea it was an OK thing to do…their guard wasn’t up; they had no guard. There was a time when elected officials and
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