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Airport cabbies redux

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Philip Preville

To update you on yesterday afternoon's post, council passed Howard Moscoe's Tit-for-Tat taxi bylaw forbidding Mississauga taxis from picking up fares in Toronto, with one hiccup: the city won't enforce it for 30 days. That means everyone—Toronto, Mississauga, their respective taxi industries, and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority—has 30 days to negotiate a settlement.

Pray that they do. The only solution that makes sense here is a regional one, where Toronto and Mississauga taxis are free to operate within one another's city limits, but common sense rarely prevails in this industry.

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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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