Update November 28, 2024: This column originally ran on July 12, 2024 and is being re-posted in advance of the December 3rd release of Toronto’s Vehicle for Hire report. ***** There are lots of people with lots of thoughts, opinions,
Read MoreRegion of Peel – Investigators have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with multiple sexual assault investigations in which three women were victimized. On Friday, November 8, 2024, at approximately 7:00 a.m., an adult female victim was waiting at a bus
Read More“Sheer number of collisions and lives affected is unimaginable” The following statement was release by Truckers for Safer Highways on November 27, 2024 Truckers for Safer Highways extends our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those tragically lost
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"The newly named North Star Way laneway commemorates the journeys of the estimated 100,000 people who escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. As slaves travelled north under the cover of night, they used the North Star to guide their way," Councillor Christopher Moise reported in a recent newsletter. Photo: https://www.chrismoise.ca/
City collected $15,000,000 from Uber drivers while it renamed streets Debt bondage/bonded labour. The world’s most widespread form of slavery. People trapped in poverty borrow money and are forced to work to pay off the debt, losing control over both their
Read MoreSix weeks of court time scheduled for jury trial The fake Trucking schools criminal case has been allotted six weeks of court time for a jury trial which began on November 12thin Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice (SCJ). Gurvinder Singh,
Read MoreTruckers for Safer Highways launches petition to support QUEEN’S PARK – Michael Mantha, MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin, has introduced legislation to end private, third-party contracts for driver examinations in Ontario. The Safer Driving Tests Act (Ending the Privatization Failure), 2024 will
Read MoreAttempt at a plain-language clarification of differences On September 24, 2024, Taxi News wrote Economical Insurance, which insures Uber in Ontario. The information request was in an attempt to obtain plain-language clarification of the differences between the commercial insurance policy
Read MoreToronto’s Vehicle for Hire (VFH) report is scheduled to be posted to the City’s website December 3rd and go to Executive Committee on December 10th. “Confirming the Vehicle for Hire report is going to Executive Committee on December 10,” Senior
Read MoreReport recommends retrofitting City vehicles City of Toronto staff report aims to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety by adding side guards to City-owned heavy-duty vehicles City of Toronto staff are recommending actions to improve pedestrian safety by adding side guards
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