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Category Archives: Cities
Federal electoral Boundaries commissions 2002
(November 8, 2002) The single-seat district system violates charter rights far more profoundly than any inequality of numbers between districts. Continue reading
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Indian medicine
(October 30, 2002) Richmond, B.C. has the healthiest people in Canada, Statistics Canada reports. “Life expectancy in Richmond is the highest in the country, at 81.2 years.” Unless you’re an Indian. Continue reading
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‘Our dear departed’: guest speaker Maureen Hambrecht
(October 5, 2002) How society has dealt with moral remains in the past: as the nineteenth century progressed it was becoming obvious that the local churchyards could no longer cope in the growing towns and cities. Continue reading
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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
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The city after 9/11
(September 11, 2002) Sept. 11, 2001, unleashed a momentous, urgent debate over the future of homeland security and an equally momentous, if less urgent, debate over the future of the city. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 