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City Planners from hell – Quebec’s tongue troopers lash out at business
(June 21, 1997) Quebec’s L’Office De La Langue française may claim to be making the province’s job market safe for non-English speakers, but in the process it is stifling small businesses and driving capital away from an already floundering economy suffering from 12 per cent unemployment. Continue reading
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Book reviews Libertarians miss holistic nature of society
(June 21, 1997) (Free Press, 1997. 314 pages) $31. Politics in modern democracy is organized around a left-right axis. Other axes may represent ethnic, religious, or regional cleavages, but the left-right spectrum is always present. Continue reading
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Presentation to Metro Licensing Commission
(June 6, 1997) I am Lawrence Solomon, Executive Director of Consumer Policy Institute, a division of Energy Probe Research Foundation. Our foundation is a federally registered charity with some 40,000 supporters, a quarter of them in Metro. We receive no funds from any interests associated with the taxi industry; the bulk of our funding comes from our supporters and other charitable grant-giving bodies. Continue reading
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PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST – Taxicab Reform in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
(March 31, 1997) Urban transportation is one of the last transport monopolies to confront the customer-driven challenges of a competitive marketplace. Continue reading
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Planners from hell – The second suppression of Saigon
(March 21, 1997) Immediately after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the victorious communists renamed Saigon after their leader, Ho Chi Minh, purged it of discos, luxury shops and other Western excesses, moved part of the populace to the countryside and brought the city to a listless calm. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 