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Private collection offers savings for government, choice for consumers.

Wouldn’t it be nice if our aging population– not to mention people with bad backs and the infirm — could have their garbage collected from their back yards instead of the street curbs? People would become more independent, with one small load lifted from them as they face the growing number of tasks that become difficult with disabilities.

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No wonder so many critics of the free market economy abhor him. He’s Canada’s most astute, most daring privatizer, among the very first both to recognize the failure of state ownership of industry and to successfully start to unravel it. Thanks to his efforts, Canadair, de Havilland, Teleglobe and other government-owned businesses were sensibly placed in private hands.

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Dear Editor,

It’s about time the National Post published an op-ed from the Ayn Rand Institute. People keep telling me that the Post is a pro-capitalist newspaper, but there is no greater champion of capitalism than novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand.

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Mel Lastman, get off your knees! You’re begging the province for help. You’re begging the federal government for help. Your budget chief, bereft, warns that Toronto faces bankruptcy. With a budget shortfall of $300-million and growing, there’s talk of a 32% tax increase, 77% over five years. You’re considering closing two dozen community and recreation centres. You’re considering shutting down one-third of library branches. You’re considering scrapping bus service on Sundays and raising fares every other day of the week.

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Toronto’s list of urban maladies just keeps getting longer and longer. Multi-million-dollar budget shortfall? Check. Traffic-snarled streets? Check. Growing armies of the homeless? Check. Legions of bad sushi restaurants? Check again.

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