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
Read MoreZoom 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
Read MoreAlberta Premier Danielle Smith Photo: Facebook by Dan McTeague It’s official! The Trudeau Liberal government’s “Just Transition” plan to kill the oil and gas industry is going forward! What is “Just Transition”? While the details of Liberals‘ plan are few, Trudeau’s
Read MoreProfessor of psychology and public speaker Jordan Peterson has announced the formation of an international consortium that would serve as a kind of populist alternative to the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF) and provide a countervailing force against globalist aims and narratives.
Peterson laid out his plan in an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, telling him that an inaugural event of the group is being planned for the cusp of October/November 2023 in London.
Around 2,000 business, cultural, and political figures will be invited to take part in the consortium, he said, adding that he wants the discussions open to the public and membership in the organization to be as broad as possible.
Read MorePlaintiff’s lawyer Tim Conway suggested that the final report Brian Bourns and his KPMG team delivered to Ottawa in 2015 left out key findings presented in earlier studies.
“For example, the life savings of investment of plate owners, incremental values that had accrued, and the ethnic background of drivers were not mentioned in the conclusion to this report,” Conway proposed to Bourns. “Did you ever use Ottawa’s ‘Equity Lens’?”
“Not that I’m aware of,” Bourns replied.
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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 Canada’s head office in Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Taxi News Plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas Conway and KPMG Senior Partner Brian Bourns engaged in a tense debate on what constitutes “improved customer service” at the Ottawa Taxi trial February 1st. Conway questioned
Read MoreIn a stunning revelation, KPMG Senior Partner Brian Bourns admitted he never saw, or used, Ottawa’s “Equity and Inclusion Lens” handbook before designing and delivering stakeholder sessions with the Taxi industry in 2015. Bourns and his team wrote the report
Read More“CURB LANE CAFÉ – A sidewalk café that is a temporary lateral projection into the curb lane, parking lane, designated lane for bicycles or cycle track of a street.”
–Toronto Executive Committee Meeting, January 31, 2023
Read MoreImage: KPMG The February 1st session of the Ottawa Taxi trail will begin with lawyers for the plaintiff cross examining Brian Bourns, Senior Manager, KPMG. Bourns and his team wrote the 2015 report to Ottawa City Council which was considered
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