Dear God, this week was as close to madness as one could
reasonably expect when it comes to news coverage. The self-immolation of Rob
Ford is as disturbing as it is fascinating. With that said though I constructed
a list of OTHER stories that came out this week that may interest you.
This is a sleeper story that will bother anyone concerned
with progressive urban development. Years ago the McGuinty government of
Ontario set in place a Green Belt to control the sprawl of the 905 suburbs.
However, according to this Toronto Star articles the measure has been entirely
ineffective because the province refuses to enforce it. About a decade has been lost now and sprawl has produced worse urban form and
cost billions of dollars.
Just before Remembrance Day David Frum wrote in the
National Post on the important of forgotten or overlooked Canadian contributions in World War One. Frum posits that Canadian contributions may have ultimately been a greater
cause of German collapse than the American entry.
A little bit of northern issues. According to the Arctic
Institute neither Canada nor the United States are ready for an active Arctic shipping lane.
Former Premier Bill Davis spoke at an event celebrating
TVO, an institution he founded, and offered some pointers and harsh pointers for today’s provincial leaders.
Brampton is finally beginning the Bovaird expansion of the Züm bus rapid transit program. I wish they had this up and running when I was still in the city, it would have
easily cut 45 minutes from my commute.
From the Fort Smith based Northern Journal, Dene leaders
in the Northwest Territories mark the anniversary of Idle No More.
Also from the Northern Journal, Northwest Territories
MLAs ignore changing electoral boundaries at the risk of a major court challenge. It’s interesting trying to offer representation in such a massive area.
From TVO’s The Agenda blog, the hypersexualization of girlhood.
Samara had a great article this week about how to
reinvigorate civic participation. Three cheers for these six ideas.... is that three cheers then, or eighteen
cheers? ...
From 308 Blog, changes in polling numbers for the
provincial parties means there is a great deal of uncertainty, particularly the
surge in the ONDP numbers, bringing them to 31%.
From Chantal Hébert of the Toronto Star, Trudeau is making rookie mistakes that create a bad contrast for Liberals between him and
the NDP.
Again, I talked about this video in my Tuesday post, but
if you skipped over it I invite you to watch. Andrew Coyne offers a speech
titled, “The Alarming State of Canadian Democracy”.
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