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CTV News Toronto will feature a consumer segment on "Fake Taxi scams" during its 6pm broadcast August 27th. Image: CTV
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“Fake Taxi scams” featured on CTV segment August 27

CTA president Marc Andre Way provides consumers information, warnings CTV Toronto’s 6pm news will feature a segment on the Fake Taxi scams which have occurred in multiple Canadian cities this summer. Canadian Taxi Association president Marc Andre Way is featured

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Amazon and other online marketplaces will sell a Taxi roof light to any person who has the money to purchase one. In the past, roof lights were branded with the name of the brokerage which prevented them from being attached to any car. Image: Amazon
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CTA requests Amazon stop selling roof signs, clarifies that all Taxi drivers accept cash

Fake Taxi drivers using generic signs to scam the public Generic Taxi roof light signs available online and confusion over cash payments have led to a rash of scams and cons involving fake Taxis across Canada this summer. Police in

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Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria; Energy Minister Todd Smith; Labour Minister David Piccini; and Port Hope Mayor Olena Hankivsky at the October 20 Electric Vehicles charging station announcement. Photo: RWN
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EVs are costly, unreliable non-starters: survey

Half of Canadians will not even consider an EV Electric vehicles are still too costly and unreliable in winter, Canadian drivers say. On July 31, Blacklock’s Reporter posted coverage of in-house research by the Department of Natural Resources which notes

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