By Marc Andre Way At its October 11 Council meeting, the City of Toronto will vote on whether to require 100 per cent of Taxis and ridesharing vehicles to be all-electric by 2030. Other municipalities will certainly follow Toronto’s lead;
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Pots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless
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On October 8, 2005, the front page of the Globe and Mail was horrifying. A major earthquake had hit Pakistan in an area so remote that more than 20,000 people were expected to be dead and there was not even
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Levitt Sheikh So, let’s get this straight. Someone is feted by the entire House of Commons, introduced as having fought against Russia during the Second World War. That would be the one war, above all others, that has been carved
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The British Columbia COVID vaccine exemption trial was disrupted on October 6th by a “security threat” which saw police arrive to evacuate the court room. “It was pretty disappointing in that I travelled all the way to BC for this
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Asked about commercial Trucking training, government commits to providing passenger rail service On October 3rd, NDP MP John Vanthof rose in Ontario’s Parliament to ask what Ontario is doing to make sure Truck driver training prepares drivers for road conditions
Read More In what appears to be one of the most confusing public health defenses ever put forward, the British Columbia government is arguing that because it was not actually enforcing its own public guidelines, but was actually working according to other,
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Sending select passengers to hospital by Taxi rather than by ambulance is saving Niagara Region approximately $1000 per trip, Public Health Committee members heard at their July meeting. The Region is on track to save $200,000 in transportation expenses on an investment of only $10,000, a return on investment of 1900 per cent.
In the five months since the Taxi medical pilot has been operational, the average cost of a Taxi trip has been $15-20. According to Municipal Benchmarking Network Canada, Niagara EMS Operating Cost per Patient Transported by ambulance averaged $1,006 in 2018.
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Government claimed case was “moot” – court disagrees, CCF case will be heard A British Columbia has court rejected the government’s claim that the case against its COVID vaccine passport regime is “moot” and should not be heard. The case,
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