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Film thanking Calgary Taxi drivers becomes international film festival finalist

“In the middle of COVID, in the middle of winter, Calgary was almost empty,” says award-winning artist Lanre Ajayi, “but any time I went out, I saw Taxis. Taxis everywhere – sometimes, the only vehicles on the road.

“People were thanking doctors, nurses, essential workers and I thought, ‘Who is thanking the Taxi drivers?’”

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Toronto taxi plate owners’ day in court denied again

The Toronto taxi plate owners’ attempt to have a $1.7-billion class action suit certified against the City of Toronto has been dismissed again.

Co-appellants Lawrence Eisenberg, Behrouz Khamzeh, and Sukhvir Thethi were appealing a December 2019 Ontario Supreme Court decision which denied their claims that the owners’ huge loss of business to Uber stemmed from the City’s failure to enforce its by-laws against the Silicon Valley-based ridesharing giant (particularly in the period from 2014 to 2016 when Uber rolled out its unlicensed Uber X service, gaining significant market share while operating outside the law).

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