Text and .PDF versions Taxi News posted this as a media file on December 5th but numerous readers indicated they were not aware of the link. Below is the .PDF file converted to Word with the introductory pages removed to
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Image: City Taxi Contract “an honour, and huge boost for the City brand” After a careful and thorough four-and-a-half-month Request for Proposal (RFP) process, Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) has selected Etobicoke’s City Taxi as its ground transportation supplier of record. City Taxi’s
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"If you're one of the venture capitalists who floated the loans to Uber to come up to Toronto, you've been reaping a pretty handsome reward, but that money has come out of the pockets of the people who provide the service, and it's come in out of the quality of life in the city of Toronto," said Gord Perks on December 10th. Photo: Taxi News “Uber will lose its customer base, goodwill and revenues” and “suffer harm that is not recoverable in damages” Toronto’s failure to provide notice of change to city regulations deprives business of an “open and transparent process and the opportunity for
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Justice Marc Smith The Ottawa Taxi trial, officially titled “Metro Taxi Ltd., Marc Andre Way and Ishkak Mail vs the City of Ottawa” wrapped up around 5pm, November 29th. The lawsuit, filed in 2016 and certified in 2018, will almost certainly reach a
Read MoreMaking any sort of recording of a court proceeding in Canada without the express written permission of the Justice is highly illegal and could lead to contempt of court charges and arrest. So, Taxi News has created this “re-enactment” of
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Plaintiff’s counsel Abdalla Barqawi struck an ironic and humourous note in his November 28th presentation when he scrolled through some of the many thousands of words in Ottawa’s Taxi by-law enforcement regulations. “It’s not plausible,” Barqawi argued, “that Ottawa would
Read More Final arguments in the Ottawa Taxi trial, Metro Taxi vs the City of Ottawa, will resume at 10am November 29th as counsel for the City of Ottawa continues to present its case. Today is the last scheduled day of hearings.
Read More Final arguments in the Ottawa Taxi trial, Metro Taxi vs the City of Ottawa, will be available to view on Zoom beginning November 28th. Members of the public can attend proceedings in Court Room 30 of the Ottawa Court Building.
Read MoreCould government end your business on a whim? “Looking back, I really wish he had bought a Tim Horton’s franchise instead of a Taxi plate.” This comment by one of Toronto’s “Taxi Widows” a decade ago still rings in my
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