A curb-lane patio on Yonge Street. Photo: Sue-Ann Levy Professional drivers question the idea of tables near traffic The City of Toronto has proposed that the CaféTO program allowing restaurant patios to extend into the curb lane be made permanent.
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Ottawa Courthouse Photo: Wikimedia Commons Ottawa’s Deputy City Manager Lesley Donnelly provided the first testimony for the City of Ottawa in the Ottawa Taxi trial on January 26. It is expected that she will be cross-examined by lawyers for the plaintiffs on the morning of January 27th.
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Central Taxi drivers Mohammed Dahir and Mohammad Omar provide services to Niagara's Taxi medical program, which has provided a boon to drivers and enormous savings to the Region. Photo: Central Taxi Canada was built by people who believed hard work should deliver rewards. Photo: Central Taxi Have hard work and home ownership become crimes in Canada? You’ll have to forgive me if this is my net take-away from the Ottawa Taxi
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Hamilton demonstrators brought a giant inflatable sheep to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on January 24th. Photo: PlebReporter Justin Trudeau’s cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ontario has been beseiged by protesters and demonstrators. Canada’s federal Liberal government is holding a three-day
Read MoreAt 10am, lawyers are discussing with Justice Marc Smith the possibility of amending the number of days set for the trial, to make the schedule longer.
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To city counsellors everywhere
And dear beloved mayors,
Shepherds in the fields of the cities
With the taxi flock under your care.
You gave us the Ten By-law Commandments
On tablets of stone you set the rules
Saying “A taxi plate, meter and roof sign
These will be your tools.”
Ottawa's "Equity and Inclusion Lens" handbook features prominently in the Taxi court case. Image: City of Ottawa “This exchange – the clever words, the hidden agenda, the implied privilege attributed to Ottawa regulators, the arrogant attitude – was a painful echo of how members of the Taxi industry were treated with Uber’s arrival. They were treated with contempt.”
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53.1 percent of Ottawa Taxi plate owners are Arabs. Image: Ornstein report The following are excerpts of sociologist Dr. Michael Orstein’s expert report regarding Metro Taxi vs the City of Ottawa: “Table 2 provides striking evidence of a highly racialized
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At least one group is planning to send busloads of demonstrators to the Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet retreat at the Hamilton Convention Centre on January 23rd.
“This week is crucial. Prime Minister Trudeau and all federal Ministers are meeting in Hamilton from January 23rd to 25th to plan out their priorities for the year. If you act now, we can win historic immigration changes. If all the Ministers at the meeting support regularization, then Cabinet can create an uncapped program through which all undocumented people and their families can apply for permanent residence as early as February,” reads the website page migrantrights.ca.
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