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• Kate 08:08 on 2019-01-30 Permalink | Reply  

  Feels like the collapse of Téo Taxi is a moment that will be seen later as a turning point. It’s sad that an effort to create a taxi service where the vehicles were electric and the drivers decently paid turned out not to be viable. TVA is noting that Alexandre Taillefer hadn’t lost much of his own fortune in the collapse. He hasn’t been interviewed yet either.

  Update: Taillefer says he lost $4 million in the collapse.

  Another update: according to the Journal, Taillefer lost $1.5 million.

  The Globe and Mail has a Konrad Yakabuski piece about how “Quebec Inc.” was no match for Uber, but I can’t even see it on a private browser. You’re welcome to go read it if you’re subscribed. (But see below.)

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  • dhomas 08:53 on 2019-01-30 Permalink

    I made an archive.org backup of the article for anyone who wants to read it (haven’t done so myself yet).

  • Blork 11:15 on 2019-01-30 Permalink

    Nice dramatic headline from CTV: “Alexandre Taillefer says he lost everything in Teo Taxi’s bankruptcy.”

    When you say a wealthy person has “lost everything” that’s supposed to mean they have lost all their wealth. The article says that he lost his entire investment in Téo ($4 million) but that’s not the same as “losing everything.”

  • Kate 21:31 on 2019-01-30 Permalink

    dhomas, thanks for the link. Blork, check out the last update above, where the Journal says Taillefer lost only $1.5 million.

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• Kate 08:06 on 2019-01-30 Permalink | Reply  

  Global reports on a new show at the Museum of Fine Arts showing “once-repressed” sketches of nude models by Montreal artists from 1880 to 1950. I don’t know what’s in the video, but there are no repressed still images in the article.

   

• Kate 07:48 on 2019-01-30 Permalink | Reply  

  People are talking again about the Sir George Williams computer riot fifty years ago, and this piece claims the real problem – one professor’s racist attitudes – was never properly aired out, and the man went on teaching.

  A new play at Concordia addresses the incident, although the director is mistaken in thinking the protest has been forgotten. I may have mentioned it before, but the riot had an effect on my life too. My parents took from it the notion that university is a dangerous and radical place – an idea already in the air after war protests in the U.S., but brought closer to home by this incident. Later, they refused to help me go to university and the Sir George riot was a big part of their reasoning. I wonder how many others here had a similar experience.

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  • DeWolf 12:42 on 2019-01-30 Permalink

    I grew up with my dad telling me stories about it!

  • CE 14:55 on 2019-01-30 Permalink

    For me it had the opposite affect. Concordia’s reputation for activism was one of the reasons I studied there (and didn’t even consider McGill as an option).