On Thursday, August 12, Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice certified a class-action lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc.
Judge Justin Paul Perell released his decision late on August 12. The decision stems from a court filing made by Samfiru Tumarkin LLP and Uber Eats courier David Heller in 2017.
Read MoreTruework, the income verification API that powers over 15,000 lending institutions, today announced it has launched Credentials, a new technology that expands verification coverage beyond their instant network of 35 million employees. Credentials will allow the growing population of 1099 and other hard-to-reach employees to share their employment and income data with verifiers when instant verifications aren’t possible.
Read MoreThe Ontario government has released the 2021 Ontario Highways Program, an online resource that provides information on highway investments and projects that are planned and underway. “This information allows people to see highway projects that are being built or planned
Read MoreAs a result of losing its case before the Supreme Court of Canada in March of 2021, Uber Canada has decided to move its Canadian head office to Canada from the Netherlands, where it has been located for years as part of a complicated web of entities and transactions which have allowed it to avoid taxes and lawsuits.
Read MoreHow much does Uber want to eliminate its drivers?
Even UberEats, the only division of Uber that’s ever gotten close to making a profit, is testing out delivery robots: Geoffrey the Delivery Robot has apparently been launched and was spotted on the streets of Toronto on June 22nd.
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Taxi News was not able to locate the photographer who took this picture in order to give photo credit. It’s an almost perfect visual metaphor for service consumers and providers in the gig economy.
“Finally someone admits it. All those years we were told that the low costs of Uber, Airbnb, etc. were the result of technological magic driven by their special talents for innovation; that these silicon valley companies all had lightning in a bottle. Now we can all see the emperor never had any clothes, that it wasn’t magic. It was just wildly wasteful and inefficient cash burn. The only real “disruption” these companies managed to effect was the evasion of labor laws, anti-monopoly laws, and consumer protection.”
Read MoreThe newspaper carrier that has been delivering the paper to your door for decades may soon be delivering a lot more than just news.
Postmedia Network Inc. announced on May 20th that it is building a national distribution network for small parcel delivery. Postmedia Parcel Services, a new division of Postmedia, will leverage its extensive distribution network to expand its offerings to include trucking, sorting and distribution of small parcels beginning with a strategic partnership with Brunswick News Inc. in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and certain regions of Ontario.
Read More“Ride Fair,” a seven minute short film by director Javier Lovera begins streaming for free today as part of the 2021 Hot Docs Festival which will run from April 29 to May 9.
Read More“If anyone could tell me where the money is going, and how it’s helping Canada’s environment, I might believe it,” says trucker Gerry Black. “This is not just a tax on fuel – it is a tax on everything you
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