{"id":51103,"date":"2015-06-02T02:38:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51103"},"modified":"2015-06-02T02:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:38:50","slug":"uber-in-court-with-city-of-toronto-over-legality-of-ride-sharing-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/02\/uber-in-court-with-city-of-toronto-over-legality-of-ride-sharing-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber in court with City of Toronto over legality of ride sharing operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48894\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_271665851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48894\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_271665851.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_271665851.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_271665851-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_271665851-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; The City of Toronto and the ride-booking service Uber are in court today over the legality of the company&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>The city is seeking a permanent injunction to shut down Uber&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>Uber offers riders various services through its online app, from taxi and limousine rides to rides with ordinary drivers through its cheaper UberX application.<\/p>\n<p>The company applied for a taxi brokerage licence through the city about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Tory has said new technologies such as Uber&#8217;s are here to stay and the city must figure out a way to work with them.<\/p>\n<p>He says, however, that Uber cannot simply flout the city&#8217;s rules for taxis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The City of Toronto and the ride-booking service Uber are in court today over the legality of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}