“Uber is a bezzle,” says Cory Doctorow.
A “bezzle,” he explains, is “the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it.”
“Every bezzle ends,” Doctorow points out. “Uber’s time is up.”
Read MoreTruework, the income verification API that powers over 15,000 lending institutions, today announced it has launched Credentials, a new technology that expands verification coverage beyond their instant network of 35 million employees. Credentials will allow the growing population of 1099 and other hard-to-reach employees to share their employment and income data with verifiers when instant verifications aren’t possible.
Read MoreReading coverage of the Transplace purchase and other recent Uber-themed articles in logistics media, you could almost get the impression that Uber is a profitable, efficient company generously looking to share its success with outdated trucking and logistics industries that have somehow struggled along without its help for a century.
In fact, none of the cold, hard data supports this idea.
Read MoreThe Ontario government has released the 2021 Ontario Highways Program, an online resource that provides information on highway investments and projects that are planned and underway. “This information allows people to see highway projects that are being built or planned
Read MoreThe Toronto Police Service have announced the takedown of a major international drug-smuggling ring, which saw more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine, crystal meth, and marijuana being transported between Mexico, California, and Canada using modified tractor trailers. Dubbed Project Brisa,
Read MoreIn retrospect, and according to paralegal John Papadakis, there should have been a third option for which to vote:
#3 – both drivers were at fault
“Both drivers were at fault, both should have been charged,” Papadakis said, after viewing the video. “Of course, you never know how things will go at court until you get to court, but based upon the video clip, I would say both drivers made significant errors and should have been charged.”
Read MoreAlberta trucker Mike Murchison took a break near the Manitoba-Ontario border to do a livestream to fans and friends and followers, which included a brief summary of the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) he uses.
“It’s kind of like having your mother sitting in the passenger seat, telling you when to stop, telling you when to go to bed,” he laughs. “I like it, because I’m getting my sleep. It’s an improvement, for me.”
Read MoreDespite their common usage, lithium batteries are classified as Class 9 dangerous goods under Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, SOR/2001-286 (“TDG Regulations”) enacted pursuant to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992, SC 1992, c 34 (the “Act”).
Read More“The operator is working on a contiency plan….it will be messy, it will take months to put into place, it will involve thousands of 18-wheelers jamming up the 401 and jamming up the border, it will be messy, it will be polluting and it will be expensive. It will not be as safe. That’s abundantly clear,” Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Reagan told CTV on May 11, having filed an Amicus Brief in US Federal Court in defense of Line 5.
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