Category Archives: Cities

Taking the snarl out of traffic

Posted on June 9, 2000 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 9, 2000) Aside from buying an airplane, here are three simple ideas for getting home in fewer than three hours. Continue reading →

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Fixing health care from the bottom up

Posted on May 16, 2000 by Other News Sources

(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

Posted on March 7, 2000 by Other News Sources

(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

Posted on October 5, 1999 by Other News Sources

(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 →

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Book reviews – Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

Posted on June 21, 1999 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 21, 1999) This revised edition of updates important events Canada and Quebec in Canada from 1994 through Quebec’s 1997 referendum on sovereignty, with snippets from some 100 media interviews of Canadian historians, politicians, columnists, and assorted intellectuals (pseudo and real). Continue reading →

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