Proposed women-only taxi service in Iqaluit holding first meeting

Proposed women-only taxi service in Iqaluit holding first meeting

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Rosalie DeMaio wants women to feel safe when travelling in Iqaluit. That hasn’t always been her experience when taking a taxi. “I’d be getting a ride home and they’d purposely go the wrong direction, and I’d have to tell them multiple times ‘Just take me home. I know this isn’t the right way’ or another experience is I’m just waiting to get driven home, and they’re l…