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Sorry hayseeds, my big city beats your green pasture16 Oct 2009 Globe and Mail The idea that country folk live a better, happier existence than we benighted slaves to the metropolis is a persistent myths of modern life. Ah, for the country life. When a new study this week said that people in small towns were happier with their quality of life than city dwellers, the big-city guy sipping his cappuccino at Bar Italia would not even have raised a sleek eyebrow. He would have thought, “But of course.” Full story » False hope for global unity31 Oct 2008 National Post An Obama presidency will not end anti-Americanism. The right enticement for rural life5 Jul 2008 National Post A devastating new report from Canada's Senate – Beyond Freefall: Halting Rural Poverty – shows how hopelessly dependant, dysfunctional and uneconomic rural Canada has become. Full story » Six ways to beautify our cities10 Mar 2006 National Post Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee wants to beautify his city. So does Toronto Mayor David Miller, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and literally hundreds of other mayors across Canada who tout beautification campaigns for their towns and cities, often with the sponsorship of the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation that's big on beautification. Full story » Crackdowns work6 Jan 2006 National Post To combat rising gun crime in Toronto, Mayor David Miller believes young hoodlums need positive role models. Good idea. To set an example, the Mayor should choose a good role model for himself: Rudy Giuliani. Full story » Time to rein in Toronto's petty despots3 Dec 2005 National Post Two years after he was elected to office on a pledge to clean up government, Toronto Mayor David Miller continues to preside over a corrupt administration. This corruption is not limited to the high-profile cases for which Toronto is making a name for itself. Petty corruption is the stuff of daily life at city hall. Full story » When rabble rule23 Apr 2005 National Post 'She wanted to say something but she was afraid her house might get torched," one neighbour told me, referring to a friend who was afraid to speak up at a neighborhood meeting over a proposed addition to a local private school. "It was a lynching," another neighbour explained when I asked him why he didn't ask the question he had gone to the meeting to ask. "Who wants to subject himself to that?" Full story » Hardly world-class16 Apr 2005 National Post Great industrial cities have historically hosted world's fairs and world's fairs have augmented these cities' greatness. The first true world's fair, London's Great Exposition of 1851, created the Crystal Palace and attracted six million visitors. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 brought us Ferris's Wheel, the 1889 Paris World's Fair Eiffel's Tower. The Chicago World's Fair of 1934 and the New York World's Fair of 1939, were also landmark, iconic events. Full story » Drab city9 Apr 2005 National Post Toronto is a drab city. Its residents make it so. Frank Gehry is among the world's best architects, certainly he is the world's most celebrated, following his soaring success in building Spain's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. But he's not good enough for many at the Grange, the Toronto neighbourhood in which he grew up and site of a $200-million Art Gallery of Ontario renovation. Full story » Schoolyard bullies2 Apr 2005 National Post The church may have never before been host to three hours of almost uninterrupted jeers, sneers, and self-righteous invective, much of it directed at people unwelcome in the neighbourhood. This was not a Christian fundamentalist gathering of homophobes and racists. This was not Alabama or some northern Canadian backwater from some pre-enlightened era. Full story » |
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