Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 1 2002

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 1 2002

Introducing Inroads 11.(In This Issue)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... AS WE COMMENCE THE SECOND DECADE OF INROADS, WE CONTINUE TO EXPLORE the most morally complex problem facing Canadians, namely relations between Indians and the rest of us. Jean Allard is a former Manitoba MLA who has lived with Indian politics...

In answer to Baum's query.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... IN HIS ARTICLE, "IS IT TIME TO GIVE RELIGIONS A PUBLIC VOICE?" (INROADS 10), Gregory Baum argues that keeping religion within the private sphere amounts to "condemning to silence a significant portion of the population." He then puts this...

An inquiry into the consequences of the Magna Carta and the Charter of Rights.(Editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... MANY THINGS ARE DONE BETTER--POTENTIALLY--BY MARKETS THAN BY governments. Other things are done better--potentially--by governments. And many things done by government are done better--potentially--by regional or local governments than by...

Richler remembered.(Front Matter)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... IN EACH ISSUE, HARVEY SCHACHTER selects, and edits, an especially pertinent series of contributions from the Inroads listserv. There were many issues that captivated the subscribers to the list this year, among them the response to the tragic...

Simpson's electoral expose.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Jeffrey Simpson. 2001. The Friendly Dictatorship. Toronto: McLelland and Stewart. 250 pages. WHEN IT APPEARED LAST FALL, JEFFREY SIMPSON'S THE FRIENDLY Dictatorship received the respectful attention due a new work by English Canada's...

How B.C. went from a have to a have-not province.(And More)
January 1, 2002... OVER THE LAST DECADE, THE PERFORMANCE of the British Columbia economy has been desultory, dramatically symbolized by the province's fall from "have" to "have not" status in qualifying for equalization payments from Ottawa. David Bond surveys...

The flight from politics: why neither Left nor Right play the game any more.(And More)
January 1, 2002... WHITAKER ARGUES THAT CONTEMPORARY Canadian public life is characterized, on both Left and Right, by a "flight from politics" into rights talk. The origins of this flight lie in Canada's legitimacy crisis since the 1960s, a crisis marked by the...

Poverty in Canada.(Roundtable)
January 1, 2002... FOR INROADS' SEVENTH ROUNDTABLE, WE BRING TOGETHER A GREAT DEAL OF TALENT, expertise and experience in dealing with Canadian poverty issues. In the past, roundtable participants met face to face. This time, as a result of the need to include...

Big Bear's Treaty: the road to freedom.(First Nations)
January 1, 2002... with research by Sheilla Jones Foreword by Gordon Gibson 110 I: Broken dreams 114 II: The "thunderclap" of 1969 120 III: A distorted system 132 IV: Escaping...

Helsinki: snapshots in time.(Bilingual Cities)
January 1, 2002... CENTRAL TO THE HISTORY OF Finland have been complex arrangements to accommodate simultaneously Finnish and Swedish speakers. Kenneth McRae traces this history via "snapshots" of Heisinki over the 20th century. When the Royal Commission on...

Calcutta and Dhaka: a tale of two cities.(Bilingual Cities)
January 1, 2002... THE DEVASTATING CONFLICTS IN BENGAL over the 20th century denied to Calcutta over half of what would otherwise have been its commercial and linguistic hinterland. Due to these conflicts, Dhaka has now assumed a prominence that, a century ago,...

Nation building and anglicization in Canada's capital region.(Bilingual Cities)
January 1, 2002... THE CELEBRATED BILINGUALISM AND Biculturalism Commission of the 1960s used a quotation from Montesquieu: C'est la capitale qui, surtout, fait les moeurs des peuples; c'est Paris qui fait les Francais. For Canada, the commissioners insisted that...

Language, identity, citizenship.(Bilingual Cities)
January 1, 2002... As THE POET HOLDERLIN WROTE, "Language, the most dangerous of all things, was given to man so that he could testify to having inherited what he is." Philip Resnick begins his exploration of the parallels between Belgium and Canada with this...

Montreal: getting through the megamerger.(Cities)
January 1, 2002... The recent merger of Montreal and its suburbs was highly divisive. That in itself is hardly surprising; municipal mergers are rarely peaceful affairs. But what was particularly worrisome in Montreal's case was that it brought to the surface...

Saturday afternoon in East Vancouver: Inroads photo essay.(Cities)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... THIS SECTION OF INROADS contains articles on municipal politics in Toronto and Montreal, plus a survey of language use and policy in the nation's capital. As we in Vancouver prepared these contributions for publication, we felt that, once...

Toronto: Canada's sleeping giant.(Cities)
January 1, 2002... THE MAIN BATTLEGROUND IN the growing movement for urban rights in Canada has been the relationship between the Greater Toronto Area and the province of Ontario, writes Rae Murphy. The GTA, the most populous and economically powerful urban...

Cities are too important for municipalities alone.(Cities)
January 1, 2002... MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION OF urban issues in Canada in recent years has focused on jurisdictional questions: amalgamation, city charters, municipal autonomy, even city-states. Andrew Sancton examines these debates and argues that the emphasis...