Inroads 26
Winter/Spring 2010      
Introducing Inroads 26

The New Italy
Canada has become the most dysfunctional of stable democracies.

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The hubris of the public intellectual




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ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE

Religion, ethics and schools
Is Quebec’s new Ethics and Religious Culture course a step toward mutual respect, or a new state religion?

Imposed from above
The Ethics and Religious Culture program violates the tenets of Quebec’s existing shared public culture

Education for pluralism
A challenge for today’s Quebec

 

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QUEBEC ECONOMY

Seeking the truth about Quebec's Economy

Quebec is fairer
There is less poverty and less inequality in Quebec

The inequality surge
Changes in the family life course are the main cause

Quebec: Equitable yes, sustainable no


LEGALIZE DRUGS

Good politics, bad policy
Drug prohibition ignores science,
compassion, experience and logic

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REVIEWS

A likeable campaign pamphlet
– and a bit more

Canada on the world stage
Can we move beyond the foreign policy of good intentions?

Lord Stern’s
stern deal

Clash of civilizations in Europe
Is Europe losing the battle, or are there grounds for hope?

Dissident Muslims, dissonant Times
A window into the politics
of Islamic reform