Yes, the news is important and serious. But geez, can we laugh a little now and then? It’s good for your mental health, which is very serious.
This happened in Detroit in 1952. I had a few days off from my regular job as a bricklayer’s apprentice, so I thought I could make a few bucks driving a taxicab. I got a radio cab for a night and set out to make some money.
My very first customer was a good-looking young woman who wanted me to drive her to her home in a very tough neighbourhood in the middle of Old Detroit.
Read MoreThis summer, with the release of “The Uber Files” there has been a flurry of attention to all things Taxi and Uber. Perhaps I should say “Anti-Uber,” because suddenly the fact that Uber is an unprofitable business model which exploits drivers, gouges customers and has been a safety risk from the start has dawned upon the consciousness of the globe.
Read MoreClearly, the Uber Files offer a platform for politicians to issue sweeping statements about how perfectly fine their behaviour was 10 years ago. But here’s where doubts creep in: their behaviour wasn’t perfectly fine then, and this story didn’t end 10 years ago. It’s happening right now, today. What if the Uber Files are nothing more than a cue for Uber and the politicians that enabled it to claim they are putting the past behind them and lull everyone back to sleep?
In Toronto, for example, Uber’s influence over the law didn’t end when Mayor Tory brought a motion to Council which offered ridesharing companies preferential rules, generously handing them a massive competitive advantage.
Uber’s influence is still as plain as the nose on your face in, for example, the situation occurring right this minute as Toronto’s Licensing division is lackadaisically moseying along in its third year of attempting to roll out a training program for Vehicle for Hire (VFH) drivers.
Read MorePhoto: Mike Murchison Given that he might qualify as the most famous truck driver of all time (Elvis Aaron Presley was driving a truck for a living before he made it big in music), readers are asking why Road Warrior
Read MoreShe’s knows. pic.twitter.com/77Q47vwIiq — Chicken Gate (@ChickenGate) June 29, 2022
Read More“We always have bad news we have to get out there,” she said. “If we send bad news out all on its own, it will attract too much negative attention. So, we want to bury it as one short sentence in a good news release.
Read MoreThe “Teddy Waste Awards” celebrate the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year. 2022 marks the 24th anniversary of the Teddy Awards. Photo: CTF
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation hosted its 24th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony celebrating the best of the worst in government waste uncovered over the past year.
“The National Capital Commission wins a Teddy Waste Award for wasting millions on a backup cottage for the prime minister to use while it wasted millions more on the prime minister’s country retreat,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF.
Read Moreeese are like sausage and democracy: if you are inspired by them, you should not spend too much time observing them closely. Not in a shared urban environment, anyway.
Read Moreby Hans Wienhold Editor’s Note: All dollar figures in this article are listed in 2002 dollars. I had a job once where I would interview a random sampling of people to get information about their labour market participation. A number
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