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Uber's lawsuit against Toronto is the archetypal example of "The Pot calling the Kettle black." Image: Taxi News
Uber’s lawsuit: is it a joke?
“Acting in bad faith; discriminating; causing loss of customer base, goodwill and revenues” As a professional humour writer, I can relate when comedians complain that there is no comedy they can write that is as unbelievable as the world we
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Read Uber’s lawsuit notice here
Text and .PDF versions Taxi News posted this as a media file on December 5th but numerous readers indicated they were not aware of the link. Below is the .PDF file converted to Word with the introductory pages removed to
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City Taxi wins University Health Network bid to provide Taxi services
Contract “an honour, and huge boost for the City brand” After a careful and thorough four-and-a-half-month Request for Proposal (RFP) process, Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) has selected Etobicoke’s City Taxi as its ground transportation supplier of record. City Taxi’s
Read MoreUber demands “open process…public debate” in lawsuit against Toronto
“Uber will lose its customer base, goodwill and revenues” and “suffer harm that is not recoverable in damages” Toronto’s failure to provide notice of change to city regulations deprives business of an “open and transparent process and the opportunity for
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Ottawa Taxi trial proceedings are completed; Justice Smith now considers his decision
The Ottawa Taxi trial, officially titled “Metro Taxi Ltd., Marc Andre Way and Ishkak Mail vs the City of Ottawa” wrapped up around 5pm, November 29th. The lawsuit, filed in 2016 and certified in 2018, will almost certainly reach a
Read MoreContempt for Ottawa’s by-laws and your intelligence beggars belief
Making any sort of recording of a court proceeding in Canada without the express written permission of the Justice is highly illegal and could lead to contempt of court charges and arrest. So, Taxi News has created this “re-enactment” of
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It’s “not plausible” that Ottawa would create massive enforcement by-laws it never intended to use: Barqawi
Plaintiff’s counsel Abdalla Barqawi struck an ironic and humourous note in his November 28th presentation when he scrolled through some of the many thousands of words in Ottawa’s Taxi by-law enforcement regulations. “It’s not plausible,” Barqawi argued, “that Ottawa would
Read MoreCity of Ottawa presents its closing argument in Taxi trial November 29; Zoom link here
Final arguments in the Ottawa Taxi trial, Metro Taxi vs the City of Ottawa, will resume at 10am November 29th as counsel for the City of Ottawa continues to present its case. Today is the last scheduled day of hearings.
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