A new convoy, bringing help
Florida residents, businesses travelling to North Carolina to help Floridians on their way to help in North Carolina 🇺🇸🙏🏼🔥 pic.twitter.com/IJ4J87wpWW — TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) October 4, 2024
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Dan McTeague, President, Canadians for Affordable Energy Photo: CAE Study on EVs: what are they hiding?
“Real sucker of a deal” Dan McTeague says Close to $50 billion of taxpayer dollars have been given to automakers to develop electric vehicles. Despite these handouts, automakers are slowing the production of EVs and even pulling out of Canada
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Some dashboard lights. Image: AAA Vehicle alerts cause most complaints about advanced driver assistance systems, J.D. Power finds
Educating buyers a good starting place TROY, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) account for 12.8% of total new-vehicle problems with 24.9 problems per 100 vehicles (PP100), according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) Quality
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"If you're one of the venture capitalists who floated the loans to Uber to come up to Toronto, you've been reaping a pretty handsome reward, but that money has come out of the pockets of the people who provide the service, and it's come in out of the quality of life in the city of Toronto," said Gord Perks on December 10th. Photo: Taxi News Uber Terms exclude lawsuits, couple finds
US couple injured in Uber crash, cannot sue Uber A couple who were left with life-changing injuries after their Uber crashed have learned they cannot sue Uber because of the terms they accepted when using the app, the BBC reports.
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Everyone wants to be on the team that wins, together. Image: Taxi News Teamwork: winning means finishing together
Leadership means a team-focused mentality I was 19 years old, undergoing basic training for the Canadian military in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. One day, during our 7-mile march in full gear, we found ourselves seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The
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Ottawa City Hall Photo: Wikimedia Commons Metro Taxi class action item to Finance Committee October 1
“Damages remain outstanding” The Metro Taxi vs City of Ottawa class action court case appeared on the agenda of Ottawa’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee October 1st. The report by Interim City Solicitor Stuart Huxley provides the Committee with a
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Beck Taxi's Operations Manager Kristine Hubbard is in Dallas at The Transportation Alliance's "Mobilize 2024" conference. Judging by the photos she has sent Taxi News, some issues, like insurance, are a challenge no matter where you go. Photo: Kristine Hubbard Beck attends “Mobilize 2024” in Dallas
Beck Taxi’s Operations Manager Kristine Hubbard in is Dallas, Texas this week for The Transportation Alliance’s Mobilize 2024 Conference. “Our members are looking to stay on top of the latest technology, products, and business models and want to hear directly
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THE ILA's dockworkers strike is expected to disrupt North America's shipping supply chains in the days ahead. Image: ILA Longshoreman explains strike in essay against automation
ILA’s “Big Jack” Pennington slams corporate greed in searing statement NORTH BERGEN, NJ (September 30, 2024) — In an inspiring and fighting Facebook post today, Jack Pennington, President, Local 28, International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) described in succinct language the dire threat
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Eglinton LRT under (seemingly endless) construction. Photo: Facebook Tunnel under the 401?
“Why don’t they just buy back the 407 and make it free?” Here’s a startling flash of the blindingly obvious. Leave it to a career civil servant – who has probably seen every implausible idea possible floated by elected officials
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