This article was Updated March 27: MP Han Dong releases letter Last week, on March 18th, Road Warrior News published an article covering an opinion piece published by the Globe and Mail. It was written by the Canadian intelligence officer
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makes perfect sense, then, that he was the first Capital driver in line to get one of the 30 brand new Toyotas the Taxi brokerage took delivery of in March, 2023. The new vehicles (22 Corolla hybrids and 8 RAV4s) were ordered in September 2022, in the midst of the North American supply chain crisis. At that time, Taxi drivers whose vehicles were aging out were being warned by dealerships that they would need to order their new one as much as a year in advance.
“I thought I would retire and take up some hobbies,” Emile Chahine says. “Retirement was boring! My son-in-law drove Taxi and suggested I try it out – that was 25 years ago. I’m 73 now, and still enjoy working.” Photo: Capital Taxi
“It’s beautiful, just fantastic!” Chahine enthuses. “A brand-new hybrid….although, it’s black, so in Ottawa that means you have to wash it every single day, to keep the salt and the dust off of it, to keep it shiny,” he laughs.
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Ontario’s Budget, released March 23rd, notes that “Ontario’s trucking industry accounts for about one per cent of Ontario’s GDP and approximately 36 per cent of the jobs in the transportation sector. The transportation system is the backbone of Ontario’s export-driven
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Photo: Mike Murchison A note from David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail “Revelations from the author of this opinion piece formed the backbone of our news stories that there is foreign interference in our political system at all
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Checker Cabs driver Iqbal Alimohd was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Platinum Medal on March 10th for his decades of volunteer work shopping and delivering groceries for senior citizens.
“We’re incredibly proud of Iqbal and his entire family, who have dedicated their lives to helping others in the community,” Checker Transportation Group president Kurt Enders told Taxi News. “When he told us he won this prestigious award we were thrilled for him. He is so deserving of such an honour.”
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Germany’s federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach shocked viewers by confirming that 1 in 10,000 recipients of the COVID shot have suffered an adverse event.
In a March 13th live interview with 2DF’s Heute Journal anchor Christian Sievers, Lauterbach used the “1 in 10,000” statistic three separate times. (Astra Zeneca’s vaccine was pulled from the market when it was found to have approximately a 1 in 55,000 rate of adverse events.)
Sievers distinguished himself by asking hard questions and pressing for answers of Lauterbach, who pointed out that he was not party to the agreement negotiated when the German government purchased the vaccines. He says he hopes to find an improved solution for vaccine-injured Germans now.
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Uber Technologies shares are expected to head higher this week after a US court allowed it and other ride-sharing and deliver app companies like Lyft, DoorDash and Grubhub to treat their workers as independent contractors rather than employees, reports Oliver Haill of financial site Proactive.
Despite many worker groups opposing the measure for denying them nearly all employee rights, including sick leave, a Californian district court of appeal ruled that the labour proposal known as Proposition 22 was largely constitutional, Haill wrote on March 13th. This overturned a decision by another California court last year that the initiative violated the state’s constitution.
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Ottawa Court House Photo: Wikimedia Commons Decision possible autumn 2023 or winter 2024 Taxi News has received numerous questions on the status of the Ottawa Taxi trial, which completed the liability portion of the Class Action proceedings in late February.
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Ottawa is in the throes of a perfect storm of events and incompetence which could only be achieved by all levels of government working in tandem.
Thousands of workers who once took public transit to work have abandoned it in frustration. According to the public servant who shared this incredible story (with a request for anonymity), they have ironically reverted to driving their carbon-spewing cars to get to their desks, where they then cannot do their jobs.
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