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Category Archives: City states
Reference reseccesion of Quebec
(January 1, 1998) In the matter of a reference by the Governor in Council concerning certain questions relating to the secession of Quebec from Canada, as set out in Order in Council P.C. 1996-1997, dated the 30th day of September 1996. Continue reading
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What would happen if . . . party politics came to municipalities?
(September 21, 1997) The Next City asked David Siegel, associate professor of politics, and Eugene Plawiuk, the NDP`s co-chair of strategy and communications in Alberta`s recent provincial election, to comment. Continue reading
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Book reviews Libertarians miss holistic nature of society
(June 21, 1997) (Free Press, 1997. 314 pages) $31. Politics in modern democracy is organized around a left-right axis. Other axes may represent ethnic, religious, or regional cleavages, but the left-right spectrum is always present. Continue reading
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What would happen if regional governments disappeared?
(September 30, 1996) First Opinion: Pamela Blais. Reality Check. We need real regional government, not the current patchwork. The city is a single economic unit — one labor market, one production complex, one consumption market. Continue reading
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On a clear day, you can see past the borders
(September 1, 1995) Where do I live? Depending on who`s asking and why, I might name my neighborhood. Or I might say “Toronto”. Or “Canada,” if I were visiting a foreign country. Besides being a Torontonian and Canadian, I’m an Ontarian for some purposes (like buying licence plates for my car), a resident of the Western world when our standard of living is compared with that of people in Third World countries, even a member of Planet Earth when reminded of it by a telecast from space or canvasser from Greenpeace. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 