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Drab city
(April 9, 2005) Toronto is a drab city. Its residents make it so. Frank Gehry is among the world’s best architects, certainly he is the world’s most celebrated, following his soaring success in building Spain’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. But he’s not good enough for many at the Grange, the Toronto neighbourhood in which he grew up and site of a $200-million Art Gallery of Ontario renovation. Continue reading
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Schoolyard bullies
(April 2, 2005) The church may have never before been host to three hours of almost uninterrupted jeers, sneers, and self-righteous invective, much of it directed at people unwelcomed in the neighbourhood. This was not a Christian fundamentalist gathering of homophobes and racists. This was not Alabama or some northern Canadian backwater from some pre-enlightened era. Continue reading
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Dead space
(March 26, 2005) City cemeteries are picturesque and emotionally evocative. They reflect our traditions and embed history. They draw tourists as well as loved ones. Continue reading
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Flying windmills
(March 19, 2005) Don’t like fossil fuels? Nuclear power? Hydro dams? Go fly a kite. Really. The next great energy technology may well involve implausible-sounding machines called Flying Electric Generators, windmills 30,000 feet high and tethered to the ground by power lines. These windmills would capture the plentiful power in the strong, steady winds that blow in the jet stream. Continue reading
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Problem solved
(March 5, 2005) It doesn’t add up. A private school in Toronto where whites feel lucky to have their children accepted in classes dominated by Asians and Indians. Where girls are the equal of boys in math. Where five and six-year-olds, as a matter of course, solve problems that befuddle kids many grades higher in conventional schools, public or private. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 