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Forging digital landscapes
By Joel Kotkin
Random House
In the digital age, will people need to commute to cities, and will industries be tied to transportation corridors and other locations? A smart new book, The New Geography: How the digital revolution is reshaping the American landscape, has answers for us, many of them compelling, all of them thought-provoking.
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Ontario land swap nothing but a morass for taxpayers
Just about everyone is hailing last week’s settlement over Ontario’s Oak Ridges Moraine – a strip of environmentally sensitive land locked in a decade-long development dispute that rims Toronto’s northern suburbs.
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Bad rural medicine
Tired of pushing a pencil, or maybe a broom, for a living? Why not trade it in for a stethoscope and try your hand as a family doctor? If you’re likely to work in rural areas – a priority with much of Canada’s medical establishment – the crushing barriers that most face getting into medical school don’t apply to you. Just the opposite.
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No good reason not to open our doors
The tendency of Hollywood studios to deliver several films on the same theme at the same time is well known. But how odd to observe the same behaviour among publishers of monographs on Canadian public policy.
In the past two weeks, no fewer than three such publications have crossed my desk, all making essentially – no, exactly – the same point: Canada is admitting too many immigrants, of the wrong kind, with consequences too dreadful to contemplate.
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The New Environmentalists
When the media interview "environmentalists" such as Elizabeth May (Sierra Club of Canada), Paul Muldoon (Canadian Environmental Law Association) or David Suzuki (David Suzuki Foundation), they invariably obtain quotes or sound bites that suggest the solution to almost any problem is regulation, more intrusive government, and larger budgets and staff for environment ministries. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 