Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 3° --3° 1° -3° 5° 2° 9° 2° Police dogs sworn in Page 11 www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, December 18, 2015 | 60 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Licensing bylaw review set for 2016 by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Town Council to review rules for Uber Will Polar Dip be balmy? Terrorism sees Kokotsis watch Paris gathering from afar by Nathan Howes Special to the Beaver With Uber rolling in Oakville -- and causing protests in Toronto that seriously impacted traf c for an entire day -- the Town is examining licensing bylaws to review its options. In 2016, it will look at options to regulate transportation network companies such as Uber. At Monday's council meeting, Oakville councillors gave the review the go-ahead. That came in the wake of asking staff, earlier this year, to review taxicab licensing regulations -- with a view to the growing impact app-based, ridesharing technology companies, such as Uber, are having on the taxicab industry. Staff met with the public and representatives of the taxicab industry and Uber in the consultation process, stated a press release. "Council has received feedback from the public," said Oakville Mayor Rob Burton. "Staff will now provide us see Ride-sharing on p.4 The Courage brothers, Trent, left, and Todd, who founded the annual Courage Brothers Polar Bear Dip, try out the waters in Lake Ontario. They donned hipwaders for the job, but they, along with hundreds of others, will not have that bene t Jan. 1 as they rush into Lake Ontario to raise money for a water project in Rwanda. For story, see p.5. | photo by Nikki Wesley Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) Although Oakville's Ella Kokotsis didn't attend the recent COP21 conference -- in part because of the high risk of terror threats of late -- her book topic was at the centre of what took place at the gathering in France. Published in September to coincide with promotion of the United Nations' (UN) symposium, The Global Governance of Climate Change was co-written by Kokotsis and John. J. Kirton, a political science professor at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Ella Kokotsis director of the G7 Research Group. Kokotsis is the director of accountability for the G7 and G20 Research Groups based at U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs. The book's subject matter brought world leaders together for the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, or see Immediate on p.7 ingeborg's warehouse est. 1958 $ tax more (before of $70.00 or 's est. 1958 on . One coup r 23, 2015 on up co t be Must presen pires Decem Ex n po ou C Any F OF 00 10. m e it Single es) 1681 FINFAR COURT, MISSISSAUGA · www.ingeborgs.ca Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. 10-5 - Sun. 11 to 4 905.823.7415 ingeborg per purchase.