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Gaps becoming too wide to ignore
Oct. 12, 2006. 01:00 AM

Hope for a better city
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Editorial, Oct. 10.

While I admire the optimism of the editorial writer who states, "The Vital
Signs report shows that challenges remain, but they can be overcome with
vision, courage and determination to build a better city," I have my
doubts. The growing gaps in income and wealth among rich and poor, people
of colour and whites, and homeowners and renters, are a result of profound
structural inequalities related to tax laws and wages, public policies that
punish the poor and reward the already rich, and an unwillingness of
governments and policy-makers to challenge the power of the business and
economic elites that are calling the shots. Against these forces, vision,
courage and determination count for little.
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Dennis Raphael, Toronto

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