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Jul 1, 2001

Hiking in the Bieszczady Mountains

Fifteen liquid cuckoo calls echo through the forest across the valley, competing with the deep bass of thunder as mist rolls into the valley like gamboling dragons. As we hike up and along the mountain-spines, lightning strikes the high places on either side of us—no...

Jul 1, 2001

Freedom, Progress and History

Writing in the decade following World War II, social philosopher Robert A. Nisbet began to raise serious questions about the North American liberal ideals of human autonomy and inevitable human progress.From a standpoint in the early twenty-first century, many may be...

May 1, 2001

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Has Harris Really Changed Things?

"I also want to begin by pointing out the absolute hypocrisy of the title of the bill, calling it the Economic Development and Workplace Democracy Act. Why don't you just 'fess up and come clean and call the act exactly what it is: Further Gutting Ontario's Labour...

May 1, 2001

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Editorial: Built to Last

This issue of Comment is a first step in a new direction.WRF Comment was first published in January 1983 as a 6-page newsletter on labour relations and economics. Since then, much has changed. Our publisher, the Work Research Foundation, has grown and acquired a...

May 1, 2001

Civic Entrepreneurialism

In the recent federal election, the Canadian Alliance campaigned on the premise that Canadians are tired of activist, in-your-face over-government from Ottawa. And, since in their view the Liberals are the "More Government Party," the Alliance tried to forge...

May 1, 2001

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A Pain in the Neck

Millions of Americans endure daily pain and develop chronic conditions from everyday work tasks. Ergonomic injuries, from carpal tunnel syndrome to low back pain, are the nation's number one workplace safety and health problem, resulting from a mismatch between the...

May 1, 2001

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The Cafeterias of the Mind

Alan Bloom's 1987 The Closing of the American Mind was probably the all-time best-selling jeremiad over the state of higher education. With ever more students aspiring to a post-secondary education, and widely divergent opinions over the purpose of higher education...

May 1, 2001

Common Ground on Trade

Family farms are on the auction block, and the machines in the textile factories have come to a permanent halt. The newly unemployed farm and factory workers struggle to find work as tellers in banks, cashiers at the grocery store, or waiters in restaurants. When they...

May 1, 2001

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Pioneering Worldview Economics

My daughter Meghan was hard at work drawing pictures recently. She traveled around the house determining what was valuable to us, what was worth drawing. When she approached me, I showed her how to draw a three-dimensional perspective by placing a point anywhere on a...

May 1, 2001

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Cultivating Human Capital

A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians by Thomas J. Courchene (Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2001, 323 pp., $24.95) Thomas Courchene has been lauded as "one of [Canada's] most provocative, and best, policy thinkers," and...