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Lawrence Solomon on The Agenda - Canada's High Speed Railway24 Jul 2009 http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?TAWSP_Dbt_20090604_779527_0 Lawrence Solomon appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Palkin to discus Canada's High Speed rail on June 5th 2009. Full story » Good tolls, bad tolls28 Nov 2008 FP comment The Greater Toronto Area needs a gazillion dollars to fund Metrolinx, a mega mega transportation system of light rail, commuter trains, subways, highways, roads, and bicycle paths designed to reach every ward in an 8,000 square kilometre operating region approaching six million people. It will cost more than governments can afford, say its government backers.
The answer, the backers say, is a toll road system that extends across the GTA and finances the transit megaproject. Londoners have bought into public transit3 Nov 2006 National Post In virtually every major city in the Western world, more and more people rely on the private automobile, fewer and fewer take public transit. This, despite punishing taxes on gasoline, despite other anti-car measures such as car-free lanes and car-free zones, and despite lavish government subsidies that transit receives in attempts to keep fares down and lure people out of their automobiles.
Government gruel4 Jun 2005 National Post Our federal government once ran a muscular military, packing great punch per capita in two world wars and making generations of Canadians proud. Then it merged our tradition-rich army, navy and air force, neutered the resulting "unified" force, converted it to peacekeeping and finally to a laughingstock that rivals tiny nations like Luxembourg. We no longer need a federal government to militarily protect Canada's sovereignty because we have outsourced that responsibility to the Americans. Full story » Cities of the Future5 May 2004
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