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Rideshare pilot could have addressed driver/vehicle identification, enforcement by Marc André Way Seven months after Ontario announced its intention to conduct a pilot project regarding “rideshare” services along the planned Northlander train corridor, Regulation 136/26 was posted on May 14th, 2026. The Canadian Taxi
Read MorePaul Kearley I remember being a young adolescent when my dad took me to see a house fire just down the street. It was enormous. The flames seemed to consume everything around it. The house was burning, but so were
Read Moreby Paul Kearley I can’t even begin to count how many times throughout my life I was told to be more like someone else. As a rambunctious child, it was: “Why can’t you be more like your brother?” In school:
Read MoreNot everyone would have done the same thing Early on the evening of June 1st, at approximately 5:30 to 6 PM, I witnessed something that was real-world heroic. I was driving out Division Street heading down the hill passed Harvey’s
Read MoreSecurity guards at Banco do Brasil carried machine guns I met Bobby and Jessy down the Amazon from Belem. First thing Bobby said was, “The Devil lives in Belem.” Jessy said, “Never trust a Brazilian.” I disagreed. I’d met some
Read More“It was time to buy my army jeep and get on the road to Cambodia” Bangkok was a city flooded with soldiers on their Rest and Rehabilitation (R&R) in Thailand. Vietnam was at its peak, just 600 miles away. I
Read More20-year-old accessible vehicles, 18-year old drivers, up to 10 persons Ontario has filed regulation 136/26 which will permit rideshare services to operate in rural and northern communities. The regulations were filed on May 14th and became effective May 19th. “Regulation
Read MoreJohn Tory’s expensive kiss-off good-bye The fact that Canada’s FIFA World Cup spending will total $82 million per game taxpayer subsidies is a travesty. The deal negotiated in the sunset of John Tory’s mayoralty career reminds me of the 1976
Read MoreBy Ian Connerty More ballots were counted than there were voters. Voters were getting phone calls while they were voting. And many took pictures of their ballot to record how they voted, which is widely accepted as a sure sign of
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