Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 1 1997

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 1 1997

Introducing Inroads #6.
January 1, 1997... The main theme of this issue is social exclusion and poverty. The supply of good jobs for those with low education is declining. Among men, earnings have polarized. Single parenthood, also on the rise, is creating another dimension of social...

Zero deficit by the year 2000: Lucien Bouchard's precarious balancing act between Quebec's creditors and its unionized employees.
January 1, 1997... Miville Tremblay is an economics reporter at La Presse and a research fellow at the Centre for International Business Studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales in Montreal. What's the best way to bob the cat's tail?" a Quebec...

Timely proposal: how a democracy can best invest in its people.
January 1, 1997... Tom Kent has been deeply involved for many years in, among other things, Canadian social policies. He is now a Visiting Fellow at the School of Policy Studies of Queen's University. I was expressing what many people had long been thinking...

Building a basic income floor for Canadians to stand on.
January 1, 1997... Hugh Segal is Resident Fellow at The School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, an associate with the investment firm of Gluskin Sheff and Associates, and a former Principal Secretary to the Premier of Ontario and the...

Poor families with kids: what's to be done?
January 1, 1997... John Richards is an editor of Inroads. For the last several years he has been co-editing, with Bill Watson of McGill University, a major series on social policy for the C.D. Howe Institute. Operating in pre-electoral mode, the Liberals...

Is there a new (or revised) left?
January 1, 1997... Last issue, Inroads published its first roundtable discussion, bringing together five key players from the then recently defeated Ontario NDP government. In the same issue, we published "Age Matters: Equity Between Age Groups in Canada," by...

Newspapers yesterday, today & tomorrow.
January 1, 1997... Harvey Schachter is a freelance journalist, lecturer on the media, and former editor of The Kingston Whig-Standard. Some of the research for this paper was conducted while he was a Skelton-Clark fellow at Queen's University for the 1995-96...

Replacing the Senate with a House of Identities.
January 1, 1997... A Proposal for Constitutional Change from Left Field Howard Chodos is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa. Robert Chodos lives in New Hamburg, Ontario, and is editor of Compass...

(Replacing the Senate with a House of Identities): a response from the bleachers: play ball or call the game off!
January 1, 1997... by John Richards, Inroads co-editor Howard and Robert Chodos lament the intractable nature of our constitutional impasse, and call upon us to entertain a "bold solution." It's hard to disagree: our constitutional disagreements have...

(Replacing the Senate with a House of Identities: A response from the bleachers) Howard and Robert Chodos respond.
January 1, 1997... John Richards' criticisms of our constitutional proposal seem to be of two orders. On the one hand he argues that a new House of Identities would not do enough to alter the prevailing patterns of Canadian politics (typified by the dominance of...

If Canada breaks up, thank the -- official language minorities.
January 1, 1997... John Richards is an editor of Inroads. The conclusion of this article is simple and, for those who cannot bear to read one more analysis of our constitutional problems, here it is up front. There may no longer be a feasible political...

End of French exceptionalism: lessons from/for Canada.
January 1, 1997... Born in Paris, Laurent Dobuzinskis teaches political science at Simon Fraser University. He obtained a Masters degree from La Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, and a doctorate from York University. This article is drawn from a study...

Genocide, impunity and accountability in Rwanda: is it reasonable to expect a devastated legal system to deal justly with those who destroyed it?
January 1, 1997... William Schabas recently returned from Rwanda where he was a trial observer for the International Secretary of Amnesty International. He has been to Rwanda on many occasions in the past four years and has been actively involved in several...

It's not a country, it's winter.
January 1, 1997... Arthur Milner's plays include Zero Hour, Masada, 1997, Learning to Live with Personal Growth, and Cheap Thrill. He is a former artistic director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, and a member of Inroads' Editorial Board. ...