A St. John's taxi scandal and some Newfoundland bloggers

It took 12 years but the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is sure it's got the bad guys in its sights. The bad guys, in this case, happen to be just about anyone and everyone who ran a cab stand in St. John's, Canada's oldest city and the capital of the great province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Constabulary, working hand-in-glove with the g-men from Canada's federal competition bureau, believe that six taxi companies and a seven individuals conspired to parcel out government contracts in a period from 1992 to 2004. It seems that Dale Bugden or Dave Gulliver or the guys behind Lockey Haven or you-name-your-St.-John's-cab-company would wink and nod at each other whenever a big government or commmercial contract came up so that everyone got their turn at the trough: “Awwright, boys, whose year is it to get the hospitals contract? And who's got the Avalon East schools this year? They ain't been payin' enough.”
This, of course, is anti-competitive, alleges the law enforcement authorities, because the customers in question would not have been enjoying the benefits of price competition from their purveyors of taxi services.
There's a marginally reasonable CBC story on this online and a less-than-reasonable story in the Telegram (no direct link available but see if you can find it by drilling down on the 'News' link), the daily paper in St. John's.
By reasonable, I mean a story that gives us a great little narrative.
But after reading both, I wanted to know if there were other cab companies in St. John's. Is that it? Are there more than six? Neither story had any reaction from the cabbies. Now, if there's one group of people who aren't shy about giving you their opinion, it's cab drivers — and Newfoundland cab drivers are a particularly bold lot. Isn't this the kind of colour we dream of finding for our stories? And here they are, the star attractions — and yet, no word from the cabbies.
I'm surprised the assignment editors at both outlets didn't get their reporters to phone up the school board, hospitals and other big institutional users of taxis. Surely they must have complained. How much money have the cab companies ripped them off for? Or, even better, perhaps the feds don't know what they're talking about, that you'd get a bunch of government agency types who say their cab contracts are great and the companies compete like dogs for their business.
(Mind you, to give the Telly and CBC the benefit of the doubt, I'm only getting the online reports. Who knows what's actually been in the papers or on CBC radio and TV from St. John's? Both outlets might very well have had all that great colour and, if so, I'm happy to be corrected.)
Perhaps two newcomers to the blogosophere — Newfoundlanders I know from way back — will pass on the gossip on this scandal. Mind you, neither John Gushue, a CBC'er, nor Greg Locke, photographer-for-hire par excellence, have anything on their blogs about this last I checked but, from their posts, it sounds like they've been terribly busy. And besides, maybe this scandal isn't the talk of George Street and environs.