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WATERLOO — Squint just a little and imagine Waterloo Region in 50 years: manufacturing is once again growing; our grocery stores stock food produced mostly by local farms; and our bikes trails are torn up and replaced by intercity railways.
That, in a nutshell, is the future predicted by author Thomas Homer-Dixon at a conference organized by the Canadian Association of Planning Students, which drew more than 250 students to the University of Waterloo this week.
The two things they’ll need …
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