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No matter which figure you use, 50,000 or 80,000 cruising cars is a lot more than 5,500 Taxis ***** An astonishing thing happened at Toronto’s October 11th City Council Meeting. While considering mandating electric Taxis and Ubers in order to
Read MorePots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless
Read MoreLevitt Sheikh So, let’s get this straight. Someone is feted by the entire House of Commons, introduced as having fought against Russia during the Second World War. That would be the one war, above all others, that has been carved
Read MoreBy Mike Millian, President of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada Underneath the surface of the transportation industry is a movement of drivers and carriers that are embracing an incorporation model, sometimes referred to as Driver Inc. Under this
Read More‘Everybody was just doing stuff for everybody’ by Donna Laframboise During the weeks Guy and Mike sat in their trucks in Ottawa as part of the Freedom Convoy protest, some members of the public informally adopted them. Amongst these was
Read MoreTravis McDougall of Truckers for Safer Highways stopped in Thunder Bay recently to check out the progress on the new scale and inspection station on the east side of Thunder Bay. It is being built at a cost of over
Read More“Toronto is only committing to make only 50 per cent of its bus fleet electric by 2030, and the drivers of those busses will still get paid every two weeks whether the bus is profitable or not“ Following is the
Read MoreSomebody needs to explain this to them before they mandate 100 per cent EV Taxis Here are my Top Ten thoughts after the “Net Zero” meeting at Economic Development Committee, September 21st, 2023: Someone needs to explain this to them
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There is no scientific definition of "Net Zero" - "It's hocus pocus, pixie dust," Dan McTeague told Taxi News. Image: Disney
There is no scientific definition of “Net Zero” “’Net Zero’ is a nebulous term; it means nothing,” says Dan McTeague. “It’s a marketing term. There is no scientific definition of ‘Net Zero.’ It is a scam, a marketing scam. ‘Net
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