Category Archives: Cities

Return of the ‘zombie’

(August 7, 2002) It is regrettable that Rise of a ‘Zombie’ (July 31), Lawrence Solomon’s response to our peer-reviewed paper analyzing medical savings accounts in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (July 23), resorted to ad hominem attacks rather than dealing with the real policy issues raised. Continue reading →

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Medical Savings Accounts live

(August 7, 2002) In a sound publicly funded medical savings account system, Canadians would recieve annual health allowances based on their age and sex as well as their medical condition. Continue reading →

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Rise of a ‘zombie’

(July 31, 2002) Put yourself in the shoes of Raisa Deber, a professor of health policy at University of Toronto and one of the medical establishment’s leading strategists and defenders of medicare as we know it. Continue reading →

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Citizens left out of Campbell Citizens’ Assembly and Carr Initiative

(July 1, 2002) With a system which under-represents minorities and ensures that the right-wing vote will never split again, right-wing ideologues could continue running this province as a private feifdom. Continue reading →

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Visionary architects versus the bureaucrats

(April 9, 2002) William Thorsell, CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, doesn’t need to fuss much about staying this side of the law. Continue reading →

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