Uber was so close to trial over cabbie compensation in Australia that the live link to the court proceedings had already been posted when the trial was cancelled. Image: Supreme Court of Victoria
Deal struck just before trial started Uber will pay almost $272 million Australian dollars ($173 million USD) to compensate taxi and hire car drivers who lost out when the rideshare company “aggressively” moved into the Australian market, reports the Post
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Don is from Thunder Bay, and is the author of "Stories from the Road: My Years as a Long-Haul Trucker"
Re: Sarkaria opens Thunder Bay inspection station If the new Thunder Bay scale is anything like the one it replaced, it’ll never be open. The killer point is, that is one of only two scales in the country that
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Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria officially opened the new $30 million inspection station near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo: @PrabSarkaria
Increased inspections, improved training needed for Trucking safety, Sarkaria says Ontario’s Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria was in Shuniah on March 15th to marking the opening of a new commercial vehicle inspection station on Highway 11/17, generally referred to as the
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Councillor Jason Chavez addresses MULDA members and drivers at March 14th Council meeting. "Uber and Lyft pulled out all the stops to try and scare the Council into stopping this policy, but we are with the drivers because we believe in people over profits. I’m proud to have worked with my colleague and drivers to get to this point. We overrode the Mayor’s Veto (10-3)." Photo: Twitter
Uber, Lyft say they will abandon the city by May 1st implementation Dismissing Uber and Lyft’s threats to leave the city, the Minneapolis City Council voted 10-3 to override a mayoral veto of minimum pay rates for drivers, the Minnesota
Read More101% of Accessible Taxis are due to be replaced by 2025 year end As Toronto faces the fact that half of its standard Taxis are no longer in service and virtually every Accessible Taxi needs to be replaced by the
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Jay Grewal visited the North West Territories when she was President of Manitoba Hydro. Photo: Facebook
Canada needs men and women who are willing to say “no” to net zero by Dan McTeague The other week the CEO of Manitoba Hydro was ousted from her position by the utility’s NDP appointed Board of Directors. This story likely won’t
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Screen grab from CBC's undercover camera videotaping a driving instructor explaining how students pay to receive forged certificates which state they have received training they did not receive. Photo: CBC
“Biggest lesson? It’s easy to cheat the system” The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) sent reporters with hidden cameras undercover to expose driving schools selling fraudulent certificates for cash. The result was angry instructors, with at least one sending threatening texts
Read MoreA Google search of “Quebec Farmers” turns up no coverage of the protest which took place in Rimouski, Quebec over the weekend. The taxpayer-funded CBC is running a piece on the stress associated with farming but does not mention the
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