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Stimulating sprawl

Lawrence Solomon
4 Apr 2009
National Post

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.  Full story »

Why did sprawl get out of hand?

Lawrence Solomon
12 Nov 2005
National Post

Urban elites and the left have for decades savaged the suburb, arguing that the suburb is environmentally unsustainable, an aesthetic blight on the landscape, homogeneously white bread and morally defective.  Full story »

The facts on immigration

Andrew Coyne
2 Oct 2002
National Post

Martin Collacott proceeds apace. From the alarmism and selective quotation of his recent anti-immigration tract for the Fraser Institute, he has graduated to insults. Thus, for the crime of having provided what he professes most to crave, a debate, he responds by calling me "poorly informed" and decrying my "profound ignorance."  Full story »