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Metro Taxi worked “co-operatively and collaboratively” with Ottawa to shut down Bandit cabs, court heard before sound was lost

This unmarked “Bandit Cab” using a temporary, no-name roof light was photographed in Toronto in 2022. Technically, Uber and other rideshares were operating as Bandit cabs before municipalities wrote new by-laws and regulations to legalize them. Photo: Jafar Mirsalari January

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Wall Street Journal breaks taboo on COVID coverage

The venerable Wall Street Journal has published numerous articles challenging the COVID orthadoxy in recent days.

“The Flaherty emails demonstrate that the federal government unlawfully coerced the companies in an effort to ensure that Americans would be exposed only to state-approved information about Covid-19. As a result of that unconstitutional state action, Americans were given the false impression of a scientific ‘consensus’ on critically important issues around Covid-19. A reckoning for the government’s unlawful, deceptive and dangerous conduct is under way in court,” reporters Jenin Younes and Aaron Kheriaty write in a January 8th news article titled “The White House Covid Censorship Machine.”

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Cowboys and Truckers, running against the wind

It’s out here that Cowboys did and still do make a go of it. Moving the stock from one grazing pasture to another. Punching holes in the watering hole so cattle can access the water. Spreading hay bales across a white landscape to feed the herd.

It still goes on, and I see it all the time. Day and night. The art and business of cowboyography is alive and well. You just need to know where to look.
Trucking is similar in many ways. You’re out there. Cutting through those windswept acres in the dead of winter on a concrete trail.

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Ottawa court case on failure to accommodate language and diversity faces setback due to failure to accommodate language and diversity

The Taxi industry class action suit against the City of Ottawa proceeded on January 5th with Metro Taxi co-owner Marc Andre Way on the witness stand for the entire day.

Attorney Marion Sandilands of Conway Litigation opened proceedings with a complaint to Superior Court Justice Marc Smith that insufficient French translators were available on January 4th. Observers in the court said the translation quality was “dreadful.” This was possibly at least in part because the length of the testimony would have required additional translators to rotate throughout the day so others could take needed breaks. These additional translators were not available on January 4th.

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