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A Dying Initiative

The Western Climate Initiative’s cap and trade market may soon need to be renamed The Canada Climate Initiative.

Fresh off the Blog

Toronto Apartment Renters To Insulate Single Family Homes

Political Reform

Op Ed: Oba Mao In China

Most of Obama’s many foreign trips have been hurtful to American interests. Don’t expect anything to change now.

No president has travelled more than Barack Obama in his first year — his current trip to Asia is his eighth. The first seven took him nowhere. In the afterglow of each, his prestige declined as his results proved ephemeral.

Transportation

Lawrence Solomon On The Agenda - Canada's High Speed Railway
Lawrence Solomon appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Palkin to discus Canada's High Speed rail on June 5th 2009.

Sprawl

Stimulating Sprawl

Sprawl in Toronto just got its biggest boost in 50 years, thanks to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's decision this week to stimulate the economy through a $9-billion spending spree on transportation infrastructure. Look for Toronto to bust out all over - North, East and West - in line with the major routes he promises to fund. And look for low-density sprawl to spread to Toronto's detriment, just as occurred with the uneconomic transportation infrastructure built in the past.

Immigration

Toronto Is Still Great And Growing

I weep for Toronto, as do many in Toronto. High taxes are driving head offices to Calgary, and back-office jobs to the suburbs. Our mayor is in the pockets of the unions, and corruption pockmarks city hall. While cities elsewhere have developed glorious waterfronts, ours remains a backwater. When ambitious institutions like the Art Gallery of Ontario commission architects the likes of Frank Gehry to work their magic, community activists scoff at their designs and, through regulatory powers, force on us their own banal tastes.

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