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Among the changes being suggested as part of the 2024 Vehicle for Hire Review is allowing Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) now under contract to Wheel-Trans be allowed to service on-demand calls and to receive the proposed $15 or $25 incentive.
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Uber appears to have magical powers which prevent otherwise intelligent Toronto officials from noticing the Elephant in the Room. Image: Cartoon Bob for Taxi News
How can Toronto solve the problem of oversupply by ignoring it? Dear Councillor Pasternak, I am writing to you today to urge you to vote against adopting the most recent Vehicle for Hire (VFH) Staff report. It offers no solutions
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What was the point of the VFH report? Toronto’s long-awaited Vehicle for Hire report was released today, along with a second report titled “Analysis of Driver Wages in the Vehicle-for-Hire Industry.” Unfortunately, it appears that the reports were generated in
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Time-phased insurance coverage for Uber drivers as illustrated on Economical Insurance's website.
A.I. doesn’t notice when common sense goes missing Update December 8, 2024: Some of the A.I. departure from reality may be caused by “A.I. hallucinations.” More reasons for users beware. Ontario policymakers may have been cautious about giving rideshare services
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Updates on activities to alert potential victims Today’s CTA Zoom webinar will focus first on recent activities involving criminals posing as rideshare or Taxi drivers in order to commit crimes. The monthly Zoom meeting of Taxi industry members generally presents
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Update November 28, 2024: This column originally ran on July 12, 2024 and is being re-posted in advance of the December 3rd release of Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire report. ***** There are lots of people with lots of thoughts, opinions,
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“Sheer number of collisions and lives affected is unimaginable” The following statement was release by Truckers for Safer Highways on November 27, 2024 Truckers for Safer Highways extends our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those tragically lost
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"The newly named North Star Way laneway commemorates the journeys of the estimated 100,000 people who escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. As slaves travelled north under the cover of night, they used the North Star to guide their way," Councillor Christopher Moise reported in a recent newsletter. Photo: https://www.chrismoise.ca/
City collected $15,000,000 from Uber drivers while it renamed streets Debt bondage/bonded labour. The world’s most widespread form of slavery. People trapped in poverty borrow money and are forced to work to pay off the debt, losing control over both their
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Time-phased insurance coverage for Uber drivers as illustrated on Economical Insurance's website.
Attempt at a plain-language clarification of differences On September 24, 2024, Taxi News wrote Economical Insurance, which insures Uber in Ontario. The information request was in an attempt to obtain plain-language clarification of the differences between the commercial insurance policy
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