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Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 3
(September 1, 1995) Frank also envisions 100-foot-long buses for bikes and motorcycles that would carry 80 passengers and vehicles for his automotive society by the freeway. Continue reading
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Coming soon to a subway near you: Part 1
(September 1, 1995) The 20th century has been ruled by the automobile; the future belongs to urban transit. Continue reading
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CD Howe Institute Roundtable discussion
(September 12, 1994) Thank you for inviting me to this Roundtable discussion, and for giving me the opportunity to discuss why Ontario Hydro should be broken up and privatized to create a competitive electricity sector. Continue reading
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Ontario Hydro Symposium
(February 10, 1994) Eighty years ago, Adam Beck, who began the great enterprise we call Hydro, argued for an electrified transportation sector…In 1915, he organized a march on the legislature to present a resolution asking the provincial government for a subsidy of $3500 per mile for his municipal Hydro railway scheme. By the 1930s, Hydro was operating electric railways in this province. Continue reading
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IPPSO conference
(December 1, 1993) If I were Bob Rae, on assuming power I would have immediately understood that Ontario Hydro was more than a monster out of control, I would have seen Hydro as the biggest impediment to the sound finances required for a progressive social agenda. And I would see as the roadblocks to changing Hydro all the vested interests in public power. Those vested interests being, in different ways, big business and the unions, environmentalists and the captive NUG community. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 