VFH drivers already trying to live on half of the minimum wage will have interesting views on Hopp's arrival in Toronto, to be sure. Image: Hopp
Because 85,000 VFH are not enough to completely annihilate the Wheelchair Accessible program? Toronto media is beyond ironic this week. First, the CBC covered the fact that 98 of Beck Taxi’s 100 wheelchair accessible vehicles will be off the road
Read MoreCouncil approves 9 month delay The City of Ottawa will delay the 10-year review of its Vehicle-for Hire By-law by-law past the scheduled 2026 deadline. Council voted 21-3 to approve the delay in order to provide staff with time and
Read MoreParking, red-light camera infractions to be reviewed outside of court system Starting June 2025, the City will start to manage and adjudicate parking ticket infractions through its Administrative Penalty System (APS), transitioning from the existing Provincial Offensive Act (POA) courts.
Read MoreCourt to decide soon OTTAWA, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that a decision on Chris Barber’s Stay of Proceedings Application—which, if granted, would halt the Crown’s proposal that Mr. Barber be imprisoned for two years or more—could arrive as
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Retired Taxi driver Andy Reti and his wife Judy spend several days each year visiting Ontario schools to ensure young people remember the Holocaust. On May 9th, he finished a week of visits to schools in the Ottawa-Carleton School Board by speaking to students in Athens, Ontario. Photo: Taxi News
“Are you an Upstander, or a Bystander?” A classroom full of teenagers were intrigued by this question when it was put to them bluntly by guest speaker and Holocaust survivor Andy Reti. An Upstander, he explained, is a person who
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Harold Jonker & his wife, Janice. Screen capture from a video recorded by Joe Warmington in Ottawa, 11 Feb. 2022
Victory for Truckers in Superior Court decision OTTAWA, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased to announce that Harold Jonker, a trucking company owner, has been acquitted on all charges related to his peaceful involvement in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest
Read Moreby Dan McTeague Well, the election is over, and it turns out that I was right to be sceptical of the polls. Polling which showed collapsing support for the Conservative Party, which I said over and over didn’t track with what I was
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A well-designed and perfectly installed culvert is a thing of beauty. You appreciate this most on a road where one is missing.Photo: Road Warrior News
“When you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.” — Dale Carnegie In Ontario during springtime, the lowly culvert becomes a hugely significant piece of infrastructure. Dry ditches can become raging creeks with mini-waterfalls in March and April; our system
Read More“Today it’s our family. Tomorrow, it could be yours” The Mississauga businessman who operated G&G Trucking Solutions was gunned down in a “targetted shooting” near Tranmere and Derry on May 14th, his son writes. While news media report that police
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