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Health and the city
(October 2, 2002) The farther we live from cities, the sicker we are and the sooner we die, Statistics Canada revealed in a series of recently released reports. The closer we live to cities, the healthier we are. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Regulation
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The facts on immigration
(October 2, 2002) Martin Collacott proceeds apace. From the alarmism and selective quotation of his recent anti-immigration tract for the Fraser Institute, he has graduated to insults. Thus, for the crime of having provided what he professes most to crave, a debate, he responds by calling me “poorly informed” and decrying my “profound ignorance.” Continue reading
Posted in History, Immigration, Sprawl
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Immigration debate, unstifled
(September 28, 2002) For the record, I don’t think Martin Collacott is a racist. The Fraser Institute analyst complains in his recent paper (Canada’s Immigration Policy: The Need for Major Reform) that critics of current immigration policy are often accused of racism, thus stifling what he believes is a much needed debate. Continue reading
Posted in Causes, Immigration, Sprawl
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The corn isn’t green
(September 25, 2002) Alberta is an environmental pariah for its tar sands, which are just about the world’s worst emitters of greenhouse gases, but Alberta’s neighbours to the east – Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario – avidly promote a competing fuel with proportionately much greater emissions. The federal government also has been promoting this souped-up greenhouse gas generator, ironically touting it as a Future Fuel that can help meet the country’s Kyoto targets. But this competitor can only make matters worse. Continue reading
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Power to the people
(September 18, 2002) Rooftop power plants are sprouting in California, a state that has suffered from volatile power costs and electricity shortages, and before the end of the year, they’ll be sprouting in New York and New Jersey. By the end of next year, they may have come to electricity-challenged Ontario, where another botched deregulation is leading to wildly fluctuating prices, brownouts and threats of California-style rolling blackouts. Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Utilities_Electric
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Urban Renaissance Institute 