9:30 am February 7 update: Justice Smith delivered his decision regarding the concepts of “solicitor/client privilege” and the fact that Ottawa’s legal counsel Stuart Huxley’s testimony in describing directions he was provided as “hearsay evidence” if he was discussing direction
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Uber acted as a “global lobbying machine,” writes the ICIJ in The Uber Files. Image: ICIJ In surprising testimony on February 6th, Ottawa Program Manager Christine Hartig indicated that City staff could not charge Uber for violating the law because
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In-house lobbyists for Uber logged a meeting on January 20 with the TTC’s Head of Wheel-Trans, Cameron Penman and Wheel-Trans Manager, Mohammed Rashid Shaikh. The TTC’s Manager of Business Transformation also attenderd, according to Matt Elliott, publisher of “City Hall Watcher.”
Elliott notes that Wheel-Trans provides a significant portion of its service to people with disabilities via contracts with the taxi industry. They have never established any similar arrangement with PTC companies like Uber, though Uber does operate a service called UberWav in some cities that provides specialized wheelchair-accessible service.
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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
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Zoom 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
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Alberta 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
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Professor 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.
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Plaintiff’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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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
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