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Category Archives: Cities
Black Magic
(October 11, 1997) In “Maude and Conrad: Behind Every Successful Man There’s A Good Woman, “he describes how Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, has, through her cultural nationalism, helped Conrad Black assume control of most of this country’s, English language newspapers. Continue reading
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Discussion Group, A grande dame out to deinstitutionalize death
(September 21, 1997) At a recent Rotary Clubmeeting, Margaret Anderson was introduced as a woman who formerly “never did anything.” She will tell you herself that she has no medical background, that she hadn’t worked outside the home since 1959, and that in her 60-odd years she has never even volunteered. Continue reading
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Book Reviews – If this is paradise, why does if feel like hell?
(September 21, 1997) In times of social upheaval, demographics take on special importance. No longer do traditional guideposts — age, gender, ethnicity, family background — tell us who we are. Continue reading
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Editorial – Maude and Conrad
(September 21, 1997) In 1986, Conrad Black was down on his luck. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce — on whose board he sat — was treating him like some kind of deadbeat by calling in a $40 million loan to Dominion Stores, his foundering grocery store chain; the coursts had ordered Hollinger, a Black-owned company, to return some $60 million to Dominion’s pension funds; and rumors swirled of his imminent bankruptcy. Continue reading
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Discussion Group, The Blue Box conspiracy
(September 21, 1997) Guided by the invisible hand of the soft drink giants, governments introduced curbside recycling to the environment’s sorrow. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 