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Savour the salt
(April 23, 2010) Ignore the conventional wisdom. There is no evidence that salt, something we need to survive, is bad for us. Continue reading
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How to solve congestion: Own the roads!
(April 17, 2010) Under a new U.K. think tank plan, every citizen would own a share of the country’s roads. This would benefit them… and the economy. Continue reading
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In praise of toll roads
(April 10, 2010) When the mayor of a car-reliant suburban municipality calls for road tolls, you pay attention. When that mayor is Mississauga’s legendary Hazel McCallion, you sit straight up in your seat. Continue reading
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Return sidewalks to private control
(April 3, 2010) Governments have systematically stripped away the character of neighbourhoods. Sidewalks in commercial districts should be privatized to retire city debt, to perk up street life and city neighbourhoods and to free city businesses from the tangle of red tape that dampens their bottom line. Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Regulation
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Op Ed: Oba Mao in China
Most of Obama’s many foreign trips have been hurtful to American interests. Don’t expect anything to change now.
No president has travelled more than Barack Obama in his first year — his current trip to Asia is his eighth. The first seven took him nowhere. In the afterglow of each, his prestige declined as his results proved ephemeral.
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