Are thieves shopping for your vehicle, or your load?
Police are warning vehicle owners to scan for these tiny magnetic tags, which thieves are using to mark vehicles or loads they plan to track and steal later. Photo: 22 Division Police
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Taxi industry news
The truth about demerit points: how they work, and how they are applied
Demerit points are added to your driver’s licence, if you are convicted of breaking certain driving laws. The rules are different depending on if you are a new driver or have a full licence. This information will explain how the demerit points system works.
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DriveWise Canada now approved as trainer in Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire program
DriveWise Canada has been selected as the second training company approved to deliver the City of Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire program.
“We are pretty excited to have been selected,” Lesley de Repentigny, DriveWise’s president told Taxi News on June 3rd. “It’s good news for us, but also for drivers and people in Toronto, to have trained drivers on the road.
“We worked with the City to revise our program and ensure it includes all the elements Toronto was looking for; now, we are officially approved and opened up enrollment for the first class, which will begin on June 21st.”
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There’s an App for that: Elections Ontario’s new app will tell you where your polling station is
f you have not already voted in the Advance Polls or by mail-in ballot, locate your local polling station by downloading Elections Ontario’s app, which will provide you with the voting location information specific to your postal code and street number:
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Canada’s constitution “does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators” Galati says
Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati argued that forced COVID-19 vaccines are an important matter of public interest and must be considered by Canada’s courts. Galati was presenting by Zoom on Tuesday, May 31st in Vancouver’s Supreme Court room. “The Constitution does not bend, kneel and kiss the feet of judicial legislators,” said Galati, whose father was imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist government in Italy during World War II.
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Rocco Galati in BC court today to oppose “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional” COVID actions
On Tuesday May 31, 2022 at 10:00am PDT, attorney Rocco Galati is set to address the defendant’s Motion to Strike via Zoom in its case against the British Columbia and Canadian governments.
Galati represents Action4Canada in its response to legislation enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Action4Canada maintains that the legislation undermines Canada’s Constitution, the Charter, and Canadian democratic values.
Government actions, Galati says, have been “unscientific, oppressive, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional.”
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Jagmeet Singh run out of Brampton event: “We’ve got questions! Don’t run away!”
“Jagmeet, we’ve got questions,” one young man calls after Singh in a video posted to Twitter. “Hey, I’m wearing a mask, you gotta respect me, bro! Jagmeet, don’t be a pussy!” the man exclaims as Singh races away, jumps into a black Chevy Traverse SUV and is driven away from the unhappy audience.
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Meter adjustments for $1 increase almost done, Solid One’s Arvanitakis says
Taxi drivers have wasted no time in getting their meters adjusted since Council voted to implement a $1.00 “fuel surcharge.” The increase from $3.25 to $4.25 replaces the $1.00 deduction the industry agreed to implement in 2015 as a measure to compete with Uber’s prices, which were drastically lower than Taxi prices at that time.
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