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Category Archives: Cities
Close health care gap with allowances
(November 21, 2000) Doctors, lawyers and other professionals aren’t as healthy, and don’t live as long, as those who occupy even higher rungs on the socio-economic ladder. Neither do the children of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Regulation
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Taking the snarl out of traffic
(June 9, 2000) Aside from buying an airplane, here are three simple ideas for getting home in fewer than three hours. Continue reading
Posted in Automobile, Cities, Public transit, Toll roads, Transportation
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Fixing health care from the bottom up
(May 16, 2000) It isn’t brain surgery. Fixing medicare only seems complicated because the health-care bureaucracy devises convoluted reforms to maintain its control over one of Canada’s largest economic sectors. Any top-down plan will inevitably be next to impossible to administer efficiently. Continue reading
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The real enemy of free markets
(March 7, 2000) Now that communism has fallen, free market advocates should train their guns on the most powerful remaining impediment to the free enterprise system. Not environmentalists. Not nationalists. Not even labour unions. The chief threat to free enterprise comes from big business. Continue reading
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Six billion reasons for hope
(October 5, 1999) Next Tuesday, we, the citizens of the world, will be six billion strong, up from five billion a dozen years ago and from four billion in 1974. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Regulation, Sprawl
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