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The F-Word

How politics and language mix

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

Andy Frame

Andy Frame is an electrical engineer who sat on the board of Ontario Hydro in the 1970s, and has been a municipal hydro commissioner, chair of the Municipal Electrical Utilities Association and senior advisor to the Minister of Energy.

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Requiem for a Fallen Giant

The unlamented demise of Ontario Hydro November 2004
The word “hydro” grabs attention. Ontarians have had almost a hundred years of dependable and affordable electric power service. They expect it to be there, all over the province, all the time. They are the descendants of Sir Adam Beck, Ontario Hydro’s founder and staunch public power advocate, who declared that “the gifts of nature are for the people,” and who labelled electricity “people’s power.” Ontarians know this because it is emblazoned on his statue that dominates University Avenue in…