An Edmonton woman says she’s still in shock after being refused a cab ride when she asked a Duffy’s Taxi driver for help Monday night.
Angela Gladue, who was in Manitoba to perform at the Winnipeg Folk Festival last weekend, said she was being chased down Portage Avenue by a strange man when she hopped in a cab for refuge.
Gladue said she was taken aback when the driver asked for cash upfront.
“I said ‘Yes, I do have money, but you have to go now. I will pay you, just start driving — there is a man coming and I am really scared,’” said Gladue, a powwow dancer who dances with the Ottawa electronic music group A Tribe Called Red.
“He was, like, ‘Give me $10.’”
Gladue said she was in fear for her safety and couldn’t think of anything else but getting away.
She said she has been asked to pay upfront by Edmonton taxi drivers in the past and has done so, reluctantly.
The driver wouldn’t go, even when the man who was chasing her caught up and began pacing back and forth beside the cab, she said.
“I was, like, ‘Are you refusing me service right now? My life is in danger,’” she said.
“Then I brought up missing and murdered Indigenous women and what he was doing felt like racism toward me, and I told him that.”
Tribe Called Red dancer says she ‘just felt disposable’ after being chased, refused taxi ride
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