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Splendid design seizes the right to be different
(December 13, 2005) The conservative-minded in gated communities across the continent don’t like change. They regulate, to an obsessive degree, the size and style of buildings and their uses, typically in suburban settings. The result: an appalling mediocrity. Continue reading
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Time to rein in Toronto’s petty despots
(December 3, 2005) Two years after he was elected to office on a pledge to clean up government, Toronto Mayor David Miller continues to preside over a corrupt administration. This corruption is not limited to the high-profile cases for which Toronto is making a name for itself. Petty corruption is the stuff of daily life at city hall. Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Regulation
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Best immigration policy is the freest
(November 29, 2005) The pickier Canada gets about the immigrants we allow in, the worse that immigrants perform. Planners inside and outside government have an answer to that problem: They want to get pickier still! Continue reading
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Why did sprawl get out of hand?
(November 12, 2005) Urban elites and the left have for decades savaged the suburbs, arguing that the suburb is environmentally unsustainable, an aesthetic blight on the landscape, homogeneously white bread and morally defective. Continue reading
Posted in Causes, History, Sprawl
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Power UK issue
(November 1, 2005) To many, Stephen Littlechild is regarded as one of the founding fathers of electricity liberalization. But as power prices shoot up, the prospect of a fully liberalized pan-European power market seems to be shrinking by the day. Continue reading
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