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Category Archives: Regulation
A glimpse behind Third World China’s smoke and mirrors
(September 25, 2005) China is a Third World country – poor, backward apart from the odd showcase city, and, all told, an economic failure. Those who see in this tyranny of 1.3 billion an economic powerhouse that may soon overtake the West don’t realize that this dragon has been blowing smoke and manufacturing mirrors. Continue reading
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China breathes freer
(September 10, 2005) Globalization, and Chinese-style corporatism, are profoundly affecting China’s environment. Continue reading
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Fading family
(April 30, 2005) By accident and design, modern governments act to subvert traditional family institutions. Much of what was once normal in our societies is punished by the tax system, if not outlawed altogether. Much of what undermines the organization of the traditional family, meanwhile, is now subsidized. Continue reading
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When rabble rule
(April 23, 2005) ‘She wanted to say something but she was afraid her house might get torched,” one neighbour told me, referring to a friend who was afraid to speak up at a neighborhood meeting over a proposed addition to a local private school. Continue reading
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Schoolyard bullies
(April 2, 2005) The church may have never before been host to three hours of almost uninterrupted jeers, sneers, and self-righteous invective, much of it directed at people unwelcomed in the neighbourhood. This was not a Christian fundamentalist gathering of homophobes and racists. This was not Alabama or some northern Canadian backwater from some pre-enlightened era. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 