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Is there a way out of Toronto’s financial mess? Many city politicians, Mayor Mel Lastman being the most vocal, have suggested that the costs from amalgamation leave them with little choice but to raise taxes, cut services, freeze wages, and throw entire fleets of limousine drivers on to the unemployment rolls.

This has led to angry denunciations from both sides, with accusations of betrayal, lying, and looking like a monkey.

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Toronto has a magic bullet at its disposal able to stem urban sprawl, solve the city’s budget crisis, reduce traffic congestion, attract businesses back into the city, reduce air pollution, and provide the city with a revenue source so powerful that it would eliminate the city’s financial dependence on provincial and federal levels of government.

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FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST – THE SINGAPORE STORY: 1965-2000

By Lee Kuan Yew, HarperCollins, 729 pages, $52.95

Hong Kong and Singapore, Third World backwaters four decades ago, are today much wealthier than Canada, the United Kingdom, and most other Western nations.

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It isn’t funny. Amusement taxes – they’re also known as entertainment taxes and admissions taxes – harm culture, harm sports and recreation, harm the private sector, harm cities and harm the quality of life.

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Tomorrow, 171 governments from around the world will congregate in New York City to promote a globalization agenda that includes property rights, privatization, decentralization and trade – the same combination that inspired the riots in Seattle and Quebec City.

Yet Maude Barlow, the labour unions and other anti-trade protectionist activists aren’t manning the ramparts to shut down the meetings, or to at least win a public relations victory for trying.

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