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Former Ottawa Deputy City Manager Susan Jones speaks in as scrum on September 16, 2015. Image: YouTube Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson personally requested staff “expedite” a review of the city’s Taxi by-law before it was updated in 2016. On February

Now retired, Susan Jones held numerous post in Ottawa’s City government including Acting Deputy City Manager and General Manager, Emergency and Protective Services. Her knowledge of Ottawa’s Taxi by-laws and enforcement measures are encyclopedic. Photo: YouTube ****** A meeting held

Uber acted as a “global lobbying machine,” writes the ICIJ in The Uber Files. Image: ICIJ In surprising testimony on February 6th, Ottawa Program Manager Christine Hartig indicated that City staff could not charge Uber for violating the law because

In-house lobbyists for Uber logged a meeting on January 20 with the TTC’s Head of Wheel-Trans, Cameron Penman and Wheel-Trans Manager, Mohammed Rashid Shaikh. The TTC’s Manager of Business Transformation also attenderd, according to Matt Elliott, publisher of “City Hall Watcher.”

Elliott notes that Wheel-Trans provides a significant portion of its service to people with disabilities via contracts with the taxi industry. They have never established any similar arrangement with PTC companies like Uber, though Uber does operate a service called UberWav in some cities that provides specialized wheelchair-accessible service.

Image: City of Ottawa City of Ottawa manager Christine Hartig said its “Equity and Inclusion Lens” handbook and the policies it contains were “not germaine” to the 2015 report written by KPMG. Hartig is testifying for the second day on

Zoom links and technology services during the first month of the Ottawa Taxi trial have been generally very reliable. Image: Google This morning at the Ottawa Taxi trial, the cross-examination of City of Ottawa’s Regulatory Services Program Manager Christine Hartig