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Blowing Hot Air on the Wrong Target? A Critique of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in Higher Education

Policy Series, Climate, Environment, Hiroko Shimizu, Pierre DesrochersJuly 12, 2016

By 2015, students and faculty at more than 1,000 college and university campuses across the world (including nearly 30 in Canada) had pressured academic trustees and administrators to divest their institutions’ endowment holdings in publicly held fossil fuel companies (i.e., …

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Speed or Greed: Does Automated Traffic Enforcement Improve Safety or Generate Revenue

Policy Series, Justice, Transportation, Hiroko Shimizu, Pierre DesrochersDecember 8, 2015

Better engineered cars along with the adoption of seat belts and other road safety measures and legislation have contributed to a 58% decline in road fatalities in Canada between 1970 and 2009. The fatality rate is now so low that …

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