All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.