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The Urgent Need for Canadian Cooperation
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on May 06, 2020
As President Obama, Bono and the back wall of Indigo said, the world needs more Canada. This may be true but first the world, and Canada, need a much more united Canada. Canada’s economics are modelled after the prisoner’s dilemma where each province games the system for...
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Earth Day 2020
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on April 20, 2020
Fifty years ago, on 22 April 1970, only a few days after Apollo 13 failed to reach the moon but returned safely to earth, 20 million Americans focused closer to home. The largest group of people ever in the U.S. took to the streets, parks and waterways to protest for the environment. Building...
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Lessons learned from the past
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on February 11, 2020
Preparing for history to repeat One of the largest collections of books on World War II is now available at Bearly Used Books in Parry Sound, Ontario. A couple of months ago, my dad, at 92, made his final move to a seniors’ home and no longer had space for all of his books, collected...
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Cities key to Canada's success
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on November 29, 2019
As the dust from the federal election settles, a familiar picture emerges. Canada’s...
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The fault lines over Canada’s carbon emissions
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on July 11, 2019
Social seismologists – those people who study social tectonics and growing tensions...
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A New Year’s resolution for global prosperity: Honesty
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on January 03, 2019
The world concluded 2018 in a grumpy, uncertain mood. Despite warnings of dire and immediate...
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Driving a made-in-Ontario solution to congestion, climate change, and economic prosperity
Posted by Daniel Hoornweg on November 15, 2018
The door-knocking campaigns are over for most politicians as they take their new places in...
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