Category archives for: Municipal Politics

Legalize secondary suites to increase housing supply

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CALGARY, AB, Sept. 1, 2010/ Troy Media/ – Alberta should change the Municipal Government Act to grant every homeowner the right to secondary suites . . .

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Recycling advocates need to get real

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REGINA, SK, Aug. 30, 2010/ – Troy Media/ – Recycling advocates need to provide more than grand moral exhortations to justify their cause . . .

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Why use coercion to collect census data?

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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 26, 2010/ — Why not pay people for their time in filling out the long form? . . .

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Sensible road pricing would reduce congestion

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AUKLAND, NZ, Aug. 19, 2010/ – It is time for accurate road pricing to become a reality . . .

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Police behaving badly

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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 8, 2010/ Troy Media/ – There are a multitude of candidates for the dubious honor of poor judgment and self-serving justifications . . .

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Why the census matters

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CALGARY, AB, July 8, 2010/ Troy Media/ – The federal government’s decision to make the long-form voluntary must be reversed . . .

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Cyber espionage threatens global security (part 2)

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2010/ Troy Media/- The frequency and intensity of cyber attacks have escalated to the point where no one is safe . . .

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Don’t count on the politicians

VANCOUVER, BC, May 14, 2010/ Troy Media/ — What Canadians can do to for themselves in these uncertain times . . .

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No room for ideology in delivery of water and sewer services

REGINA, SK, and CALGARY, AB, Apr. 20, 2010/ — Imagine arriving home from a winter vacation to find a basement flooded with raw sewage, caused by the long neglect by successive civic politicians who refused to properly fund public infrastructure . . .

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Taxes are code for “collateral damage”

CALGARY, AB, Apr. 19, 2010/ — A useful way of limiting the collateral damage caused by taxation is to subsidize only the individual . . .

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