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Category Archives: Nation states
Triumph of freedom
(January 4, 2003) Conservatives dismayed by the increasing size of government can take heart. Large size is not tantamount to a loss of freedom. At no point since Europeans first colonized this continent have governments been less powerful, less oppressive, and less intrusive in our economic and personal lives. Continue reading
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Connecting Canadians
(June 28, 2000) Our objective has been to ensure that all Canadians can access the new networked economy. Not just people who live in cities. Not just people who have the economic means to buy a computer. But everyone. Continue reading
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The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecom Public Notice CRTC 99-16
(November 30, 1999) AT&T Canada welcomes this opportunity to provide its perspective on the state of the current regime of subsidy collection within the Canadian telecommunications industry. At the outset, AT&T Canada wishes to note that it is committed to the concept of universal service and applauds the Canadian government’s goal of becoming the most connected nation in the world. Continue reading
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The end of a nation-state
(June 1, 1999) Kosovo calls forth images of ethnic cleansing, mass refugee movements, and Balkan barbarism, but history will pay scant attention to these staples of this year’s nightly newscasts, unsettling though they are. Kosovo is a milestone in the decline of the nation state, an institution but a few hundred years old and already obsolete. Continue reading
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Editorial – Communism’s continuing successes
(March 21, 1998) This February the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, and the Marx Memorial Library, housed in historic east London, reports that business is brisk: “Ten years ago there were days when not a soul came in through the door. That was one of the low points, but in the last three or four years it has picked up an awful lot,” enthuses its librarian. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 