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Author Archives: Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon: Fix Your City – KPMG cuts are merely cautious
(July 29, 2011) The potential cuts that KPMG laid out are just what you’d expect from a consulting group inspired by accountants: cautious and uninspired. Continue reading
Posted in Budgets
Tagged BIA, budget, budget cuts, Business Improvement Area, deregulation, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, privatization, retail, toronto
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Lawrence Solomon: If Europe breaks Palestine, it will have to clean up the mess
(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself. Continue reading
Posted in Nation states
Tagged Europe, European Union, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Palestine, Palestinian State, U.S, UN
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Lawrence Solomon: Keep names, sell stations
(July 8, 2011) To minimize fare hikes on Toronto’s deficit-ridden transit system, a desperate Toronto Transit Commission decided this week to raise revenue from corporations by selling them naming rights to subway stations. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Deregulate housing
(June 24, 2011) Unbridled home-owning has become the single biggest threat to Canada’s economic stability. Continue reading
Posted in Housing
Tagged Bank of Canada, Canadian economy, CMHC, deregulation, Great Recession, home ownership, housing, housing bubble, housing prices, IMF, Inflation, Interest Rates, International Monetary Fund, Lawrence Solomon, Mark Carney, mortgages, privatization, recession, Stephen Harper
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Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel
(June 6, 2011) Prior to the 1973-74 OPEC Oil Crisis, Israel was the darling of the left, extolled as a feisty, altruistic country that made socialism work in a hostile neighbourhood of Arab military dictatorships and Muslim theocracies. The liberal press defended Israel against those who objected to Israel’s existence. The liberal intelligentsia – Jew and non-Jew alike – sent their youth to Israeli kibbutzes, to be inspired by this utopian model of communal life where all recieved the same age, regardless of occupation. Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Nation states
Tagged Israel, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Oil, Oil Import, OPEC, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, UN, United Nations, Yasser Arafat
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