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Presentation to Southern Ontario Area Airports Study

(October 19, 1994) Good evening, I’m Lawrence Solomon, Executive Director of The Consumer Policy Institute. Thank you for the opportunity to address this proceeding concerning South Central Ontario’s needs. Its needs, as you are all too aware, have been seriously misjudged in the past. Continue reading

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Enabling the disabled

(December 21, 1988) When you look up social entrepreneur in the dictionary, it should read: Al Etmanski, executive director of the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) in Vancouver. How else to describe someone who has helped develop a way of saving disabled people such as Peggy and John from the isolation of government institutions? Continue reading

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