Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 2003

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 2003

Introducing Inroads 12.(Front Matter)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... BACK IN JUNE 2001, HENRY MILNER AND JOHN RICHARDS INVITED ME to join the Inroads editorial board. Along with Arthur Milner, Henry and John had been the core of Inroads since its founding nine years earlier. The invitation led to a broader...

Our new website.(Front Matter)
January 1, 2003... The Inroads website is undergoing a transformation along with the magazine itself. At the time of writing the new site remains under development. It does have a new location with its own domain name: www.inroadsjournal.ca (the old site now...

The NDP under new leadership: still a bit player unless institutions change.(Inroads editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... THERE ARE THREE PARTY LEADERSHIP CONTESTS GOING ON 1N Canada. The most immediate, if not the best publicized, is that of the NDP. The New Democrats have three experienced, competent and articulate candidates, working hard to be chosen for a job...

Allard's Big Bear's treaty: "the best diagnosis ever done of Indian Affairs".(Letter to the editors)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... I have read Jean Allard's paper and was impressed with its scope, depth and, might I add, timeliness. It provides a succinct diagnosis of what's wrong with the system both in Ottawa and on Indian reserves. As Dennis Owens concludes in his...

Insecurity and the French election: selected and edited from the Inroads listserv.(Front Matter)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... THE FIRST ROUND OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN APRIL sent a shockwave around the world, as the anticipated final-round match-up between Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was shattered by the...

What future for health care?
January 1, 2003... THOSE OF US WHO ARE FROM SASKATCHEWAN CONSIDER TOMMY Douglas our patron saint--with good reason. In public meetings, he called for higher wheat prices and the brotherhood of man in rhetoric that bested William Jennings Bryan. He gave comfort to...

Patient incentives: why we need them, and how they can work.(Health Care)
January 1, 2003... PAST EFFORTS TO IMPROVE CANADA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HAVE focused either on more money or on incremental administrative reforms. While helpful, these efforts have failed to deal adequately with the steady rise in health costs that soon will...

Profits and health care delivery: clarifying the debate.(Health Care)
January 1, 2003... THE QUESTION OF THE APPROPRIATE MIX BETWEEN PUBLIC AND private in health care has become a topic of considerable heat, both within Canada and internationally. Advocates of more "privatization" claim that it is needed to encourage innovation,...

Indian/non-Indian life expectancy: why the gap?(Health Care)
January 1, 2003... BETWEEN THE TIME OF WRITING (OCTOBER) AND THE TIME THIS issue of Inroads reaches readers, the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada will have issued its final report. Whatever its recommendations, the report will generate...

Ideology and the media: an insider's look at how newspapers work.
January 1, 2003... THE CALL FROM THE TORONTO STAR NIGHT NEWS DESK CAME AS I was preparing for sleep. The final report of Ontario's Royal Commission on Declining Enrolment had arrived in the office, followed within moments by copies of the Globe and Mail with a...

Where have all the voters gone?
January 1, 2003... IN THE 1988 FEDERAL ELECTION, 75 PER CENT OF ELIGIBLE CANADIAN voters cast ballots. This proportion fell to 70 per cent in 1993 and 67 per cent in 1997, only to slump further still in November 2000 to 61 per cent. These figures, it now seems...

Manufacturing dissent: Noam Chomsky and the crisis of the Western Left.(Noam Chomsky)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, I was in a slightly funky bookstore in Vancouver. It was just at the moment when it was becoming obvious that, despite the fears of our leaders and the hopes of our enemies, no suicide...

Chomsky in context: a response to Gareth Morley.(Noam Chomsky)
January 1, 2003... THE TRIGGER FOR GARETH MORLEY'S ARTICLE 15, IT APPEARS, THE reception given to 9-11, a slight pamphlet made up of interviews Noam Chomsky gave to various media outlets on the terrorist attacks on September 11 and the response of the American...

An Australian Republic: this year, next year, sometime, never?
January 1, 2003... AUSTRALIA, LIKE CANADA, IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, WITH a federation "under the Crown." Unlike Canada, however, Australia has long been home to a republican movement. Three years after a referendum in which a republican proposal was...

Power to the people: a Bangladesh photo essay.
January 1, 2003... Bangladesh is a beautiful country of rivers, farms and tropical forests. Home to 130 million people, it counts more than 60,000 villages, a few sizable cities and one chaotic megacity, Dhaka. Bangladeshis have been blessed with some of the...

Quebec schools and immigrant children.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... translated by John Richards Marie McAndrew, Immigration et diversite a l'ecole: Le debat quebecois dans une peprspective comparative. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. 266 pages. Earlier this year, Marie McAndrew...

Canada's quasi-party system: the causes and consequences of Liberal hegemony.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau and Neil Nevitte, Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. 241 pages. WILL THE LIBERAL PARTY EVER BE...