Heroic UK cabbies work under hellish conditions
100k Ubers, cab rental fees, closed roads among hardships endured Cabbies heading into work pic.twitter.com/mqXHNlEXEE — Herts GB (@Herts_GB) November 19, 2023
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Trains: now on Uber
“Why?” viewers ask A new 30-second Uber ad promoting the app for people taking trains has UK viewers scratching their heads in confusion this week. The spot features an enthusiastic young man approaching a train conductor to confirm that he
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The Climate Scam Junk News Fear Porn Machine running full tilt
by Hans Wienhold In case you haven’t noticed, the Junk News fear porn machine has been running in overdrive this summer in a effort to jackhammer the ClimateScam into the brains of as many somnambulists as possible. This has all
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Avoiding vomit: the battle of wits between Bartenders and Cab drivers
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
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Bad news, good news and revenge
by 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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Special delivery from The Love Shop
by Hans Wienhold One slow afternoon, I was given a delivery order. The instructions were to pick up a prepaid order from The Love Shop on Parkdale Ave. N. The bag they handed me contained some lubricant and a red
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Cattlemen will remember their BSE moment forever
No one saw it coming. It came out of nowhere. Much like the attacks on 9/11. It was one of those surreal moments in your life. Everyone knows where they were on 9/11. But for the beef industry a more memorable day was May 20, 2003. That was the day the Canada/US border slammed shut with a shockwave that hit not only the aforementioned trading partners but 40 additional countries that trades with Canada.
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The Teddy award goes to the government official who most notably wasted taxpayer dollars. Photo: CTF
“Teddy” awarded to GG Simon for extreme waste of taxpayers’ dollars
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation presented its 25th annual Teddy Waste Awards to the governor general for racking up sky-high bills for airplane food; the Quebec government’s app that made people line up for hours; and, a Charlottetown councillor who built her driveway around a power pole and charged taxpayers for moving it.
“Governor General Mary Simon’s bill for airplane food on one trip was almost double the prime minister’s grocery bill for the whole year and, for that amazing accomplishment, she’s winning a Teddy Award,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF.
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