Over the 2025 holiday season,Taxi News will re-post some of thebest, funniest, and most memorable contributionswritten by drivers over the years.Thank you to our contributors! Excerpt from “Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver,” available on Amazon by Hans Wienhold Uncle Jay, whom
Read MoreHarold Jonker charged 14 months after Freedom Convoy ends Ottawa police have peculiar priorities by Donna Laframboise Yesterday, I told you about Harold Jonker, of Jonker Trucking, a small company in southern Ontario. 12 Jonker trucks took part in the Freedom Convoy.
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Photo by Ian Cumming. Originally posted to the Ontario Farmer Facebook page, the accompanying text read: “Trucks parked on Wellington Street in Ottawa on January 29, 2022.”
Agricultural journalist says it was wildly larger than reported by Donna Laframboise “I come from a long line of farmers,” says Ian Cumming, who covered the Freedom Convoy for the Ontario Farmer newspaper. Which means, he says, he grew up with truckers. On
Read Moreby Hans Wienhold The Black Stallion was a bar on James St. N. We all hated being sent there for fares, partly because there was nowhere to park adjacent to the bar. Drivers would have to maneuver into a “no stopping”
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Young Trucker Tyler was so demoralized by Canada's COVID mandates, he decided to quit trucking and become a mechanic instead. Photo: Donna Laframboise
“The convoy and life after the convoy has really changed my way of thinking and what I want out of life. I no longer enjoy living in a truck and living out of truck stops for days on end away from family and friends. After losing my job due to the vaccine bullshit and having some time off to sit around and think…I realized that I actually want a home life and a family of my own…
…I also realized that I enjoy fixing trucks more than I enjoy driving them. So I have decided to sell the truck…and chase after another dream. Tomorrow I start a new job where I will be fixing heavy equipment and trucks as an apprentice! I’ll be home every night with weekends off which is something I’ve never had as an owner operator! I’m very excited to start this new life.”
Read MoreMarsh UK data shows that by September 2022, there were 1 million licensed plug-in vehicles (EV) in the UK. This equated to 2.5% of all licensed road using vehicles, up from 1.6% at the end of September 2021. Additionally, the
Read MoreAs Toronto’s Chief of Police, Mark Saunders helped shatter forever my belief that every Canadian is equal before the law. He stood by and allowed two of the plainest, clearest laws that exist to be violated, day after day after
Read MoreIn present day Canada, career criminals get arrested, are swiftly granted bail, and are back on the streets within hours or days. These men are not career criminals. Margaret says three of them have never received so much as a speeding ticket before. One, she says, “might have a juvenile record” of some kind.
After she tells us they’ve been charged with “conspiracy to murder RCMP officers – a very serious federal charge,” Gord says you’d think “the government would be in a humongous hurry” to make the evidence public in order to reinforce its narrative that the protesters were terrorists.
Read Moreby Hans Wienhold It was a Friday night, near the end of my career. I was sitting in my cab in the Augusta Nightclub zone, watching all the bar patrons jumping into the unmarked Uber cabs in front of me,
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