Yesterday, I had back-to-back phone calls oozing with irony. One was with a St. John’s Newfoundland Taxi owner who is dismayed that St. John’s will now be open to an unlimited number of Uber vehicles; the second, with a Toronto
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Participants on the CTA Zoom Webinar will get double the expert advice on April 25th. The webinar topic at 2:30 April 25th is “Advertising and Social Media: what works, what doesn’t.” Kristine Hubbard, Operations Manager at Beck Taxi in Toronto
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21% would fly in a automated air taxi A third of Canadians are wary of air taxis and urban drones if the federal government is responsible for regulating traffic, says in-house Department of Transport research. Blacklock’s Reporter reports the studies
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Facilitator to be hired this spring Taxi News has requested details on any and all consultations to be held before Licensing and Standards staff write the November 2024 ground transportation report as directed by Council. “The City is procuring the
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Revisions to Municipal Act came too late to help Taxi owners Today, the City Manager could not tell me who gave staff approval to bid for the FIFA World Cup without required funding commitments from other levels of government. That’s
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Open entry for “quadricycles”? From the staff report on Item EC11.c to Economic Development Committee March 28th, “It is recommended that the City continue to opt-in to the Province of Ontario’s Large Quadricycle Pilot Project. This recommendation is based on
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Canadian Taxi Association Zoom webinar on Advertising and Social Media has had to be postponed to April 25th at 2:30. If you were registered for the March 28th event, an email was sent to you
Read More Taxi industry media pros share tips, cautions Two of Canada’s most social Taxi industry professionals will share tips with associates on March 28th. Kristine Hubbard, Operations Manager at Beck Taxi in Toronto and Layna Segall, Social Media Manager for Checker
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Deal struck just before trial started Uber will pay almost $272 million Australian dollars ($173 million USD) to compensate taxi and hire car drivers who lost out when the rideshare company “aggressively” moved into the Australian market, reports the Post
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