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Category Archives: Cities
Book reviews – All the world’s a stage
(June 21, 1999) Strange times, these last days of the millennium. An American president is exposed as a serial philanderer and a perjurer, and his popularity increases. Continue reading
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Book reviews – Feminism’s dark side
(June 21, 1999) Prominent U.S. feminist Katha Pollitt once said that feminism promised women “a life not just with more justice but also with more freedom, more self-respect, more choices, more pleasure.” Continue reading
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What would happen if we counted housework in the GDP?
(June 21, 1999) The Next City asked Finn Poschmann, a policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Finn Poschmann, chair of research and policy development, to comment. Continue reading
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The enlightement
(June 21, 1999) Parliament repeals the Small Loans Act. Prior to 1980, money lenders, anyone other than a chartered bank who lends money could legally charge no more than 2 per cent per month for a loan of $300 or less, 1 per cent per month for loans between $300 and $1,000, and just 0.5 per cent or 6 per cent per year for loans greater than $1,000. Continue reading
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False prophets
(June 21, 1999) Yale professor of history Paul Kennedy has often made predictions about the world’s future. In 1987, he foretells the United States’ decline and Japans’ continued ascension and eventual domination, which struck a chord with Americans insecure about their ability to compete with Japan. Continue reading
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