Plaintiff Marc Andre Way talks to media in Ottawa after learning of his success in the long-running Metro Taxi vs Ottawa lawsuit, regarding that city's failure to enforce its own laws on Uber and other rideshare companies. Photo: Taxi News
May 13, 2024 — Today in Ottawa, Justice Marc Smith issued his decision in the case of Metro Taxi vs. City of Ottawa. Justice Smith found that the “The City’s response to Uber’s arrival was negligent, causing harm to the
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No math was used in drawing conclusions on Foreign Interference “I can conclude with confidence that the Liberal Party would have been in government with or without foreign interference in 2019 and 2021.” –Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue, writing in the Initial
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Freedom Convoy Trucks in Ottawa, February 2022. Photo: Donna Laframboise
Marco Navarro-Génie, founding president of the Haultain Research Institute and host of the Thought Farming podcast, recently interviewed journalist Donna Laframboise on her upcoming book on Canada’s 2022 Freedom Convoy. Listen to this interview, “Bearing Witness for Liberty,” by clicking
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In the decade since rideshare has been legalized, drivers have realized how much money it costs to pay for fuel and vehicle maintenance. Many are protesting now in hopes of keeping more of their earnings. All of this information was available to governments in 2014, before the "wild wild west" was created in ground transportation. Photo: Earla Philips
Cars and computers are just two of the consumer products caught up in the "right to repair" debate. Photo: Taxi News
An overview of Bill 187 the Right to Repair Consumer Electronic Products, Household Appliances, Wheelchairs, Motor Vehicles and Farming Heavy Equipment Act, 2024 McMillan LLP – Lindsay Lorimer, Rachel Cooper, Stevie O’Brien, Timothy Cullen and Adelaide Egan The Ontario legislature has taken the first step to pass
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre surprised Carbon Tax protesters by dropping in on their campsite. Image: NPACT
“What are the chances… here we are having a quiet evening… and boom this guy shows up,” writes Tommy Everett. “There’s an outbreak of common sense across Canada,” Poilievre said in his impromptu remarks. “People have enough. Good luck, guys,
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Taxpayer groups have formed across Canada to fight the Carbon Tax. Image: FB
A Facebook group formed to protest Canada’s carbon tax has reached almost 200,000 followers. The “Nationwide Protest Against the Carbon Tax” page has been formed to “for all concerned Canadians who want to stand against the high grocery prices and
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"An increase in tourism combined with less than three minutes of darkness is not an emergency. If it were, New Year’s Eve, the Toronto International Film Festival, many protests and other large community events would all be emergencies," Christine Van Geyn noted in a recent editorial. Photo: Niagara Falls Tours
“Emergency” in law must remain narrow: CCF NIAGARA REGION – The Canadian Constitution Foundation (the “CCF”) filed a notice of application for judicial review in Ontario’s Divisional Court on Thursday seeking an order quashing the unlawful declaration of a State
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PROTESTORS at the Ontario/Quebec border say they NOT leaving until Justin Trudeau abolishes the Carbon Tax. Photo: The Pleb, Twitter
PROTESTORS at the Ontario/Quebec border say they NOT leaving until Justin Trudeau abolishes the Carbon Tax pic.twitter.com/tYUq9Z2k2B — The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) April 3, 2024
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