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		<title>That&#8217;s a shame</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/09/thats-a-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Gary Schellenberger might not be able to make it to the Olympics after all.
&#8220;We&#8217;re bringing a budget forward and we&#8217;re doing business. All my staff are working,&#8221; he said, responding to citizens who have been asking publicly what exactly MPs are doing during the shutdown of Parliament. &#8221;One thing people don&#8217;t realize is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=106153&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Commons: Jack Layton doing as Jack Layton does</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/08/the-commons-jack-layton-doing-as-jack-layton-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all sorts of ways, it's difficult to imagine him ever stopping<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105957&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We need more of this kind of leadership and ideas exchanged between the parties&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/08/we-need-more-of-this-kind-of-leadership-and-ideas-exchanged-between-the-parties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In lavish detail, Nate Silver explains how Washington might create its own Question Time. Meanwhile, former McCain campaign strategist Mark McKinnon posits that a regular QT might help leach &#8220;partisan poison&#8221; from Capitol Hill.
All of which may serve to remind that it is not necessarily the institution or the idea of Question Period that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105919&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet generation comes to Ottawa</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/08/the-internet-generation-comes-to-ottawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAPP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[errol mendes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Christopher White, creator of that Facebook group, he&#8217;s been invited to take part alongside professors Peter Russell and Errol Mendes in a Liberal roundtable next month about civic engagement and democracy.
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		<title>The Internet generation learns to protest</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/08/the-internet-generation-learns-to-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/08/the-internet-generation-learns-to-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=105851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the prorogation protest on Parliament Hill a couple weeks back, someone held a sign that read &#8220;I Can Haz Democracy?&#8221; Now this.
The Saskatoon chapter of Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament organized another protest Friday to greet a visiting Conservative Party politician. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped in Saskatoon and the group brought out about 75 people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105851&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Layton&#8217;s fight</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/06/laytons-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/06/laytons-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff and Gilles Duceppe extend their best wishes. News and reaction from the Globe, Star, Post, Sun, CBC and CTV. Canadian Press has a primer on prostate cancer.
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		<title>Sport as metaphor</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/sport-as-metaphor/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/sport-as-metaphor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper talks to Sports Illustrated. Hockey is a fast, aggressive, tough sport and that&#8217;s an important part of the Canadian psychology and history. It&#8217;s sometimes forgotten because Canadians are thought of as peace-loving and fair-minded and pleasant &#8212; which I think we are &#8212; but that&#8217;s not inconsistent with tough and aggressive and ambitious, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105686&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onward, undaunted</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/onward-undaunted/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/onward-undaunted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Layton has called a news conference for Monday in Ottawa to &#8220;challenge his three federal counterparts to seek common ground to make the concerns of women and children in Canada a priority in the next session of Parliament.&#8221;
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		<title>This just in</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/this-just-in-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/this-just-in-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NDP has announced that Jack Layton will make an &#8220;announcement about his personal status and his immediate future as NDP leader&#8221; at 2pm in Toronto.
He will apparently not be resigning. But his announcement will have something to do with his health.
CBC now reports that Layton will announce he has prostate cancer.
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		<title>Let us talk of many things</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/let-us-talk-of-many-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/let-us-talk-of-many-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s chat will be here. We&#8217;ll get started around 2pm, but you should be able to start submitting questions around 1:30pm.
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		<title>A Prime Minister without a Parliament to call his own (III)</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/a-prime-minister-without-a-parliament-to-call-his-own-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Harper decides he will address the B.C. legislature. Vaughn Palmer maintains the word invited should be put in quotation marks.
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		<title>Idea alert</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/idea-alert-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/idea-alert-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Martin says there&#8217;s already a framework for addressing maternal and child health internationally. And, as luck would have it, he helped write it.
Last summer, at the pre-G8 Conference on International Health in Rome, parliamentarians from around the world developed a concrete work plan to reduce maternal mortality called, “Strategic Investments in Times of Crisis.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105617&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Prime Minister without a Parliament to call his own (II)</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/a-prime-minister-without-a-parliament-of-his-own-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/a-prime-minister-without-a-parliament-of-his-own-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canwest says Mr. Harper is considering an invitation to speak to the B.C. legislature.
The Victoria Times-Colonist seems rather excited about the possibility.
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105564&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adjust your calendars</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/adjust-your-calendars/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/adjust-your-calendars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberals and Bloc Quebecois say they&#8217;re respectively happy to sit for another ten days this spring. The NDP, obviously mindful of a trap, say they want to see the motion before agreeing to adjust the House schedule.
Conceivably, the House will return March 3 and sit through April 1. It will then break for Easter and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105555&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Commons: Working hard at working hard</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/the-commons-working-hard-at-working-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/the-commons-working-hard-at-working-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["That's the thing about government. We're actually doing things on behalf of Canadians."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105477&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Prime Minister without a Parliament to call his own</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/a-prime-minister-without-a-parliament-to-call-his-own/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/a-prime-minister-without-a-parliament-to-call-his-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michaëlle Jean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps distressed by the Governor General&#8217;s decision to accept his request to prorogue Parliament in Ottawa, the Prime Minister is apparently scheduled to address the legislature in British Columbia.
The B.C. legislature is slightly agog over next week&#8217;s pending visit by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Apparently, he intends to address the chamber Thursday &#8230; Even lacking official confirmation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105431&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights from the Globe&#8217;s continuing coverage of the national chess championships</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/highlights-from-the-globes-continuing-coverage-of-the-national-chess-championships/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/highlights-from-the-globes-continuing-coverage-of-the-national-chess-championships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 31. For anyone who believes that our governments should be honest, open and accountable, this is a travesty. But it&#8217;s devilishly clever.
January 13. A word that many had not heard of and few could spell has suddenly become the latest tactically clever move by the Conservatives that turned out to be too clever by half.
January 22. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105397&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How bout now?</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/how-bout-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/04/how-bout-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NDP and Liberals respond to the government&#8217;s new schedule.
After hearing the news, the NDP argued that the House of Commons should resume sitting immediately. “Instead of playing silly games, the PM should recall Parliament right away to deal with all the important issues facing Canadians,” said Karl Belanger, spokesperson for NDP Leader Jack Layton.
  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105400&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is no time to be consulting with Canadians</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/spring-is-no-time-to-be-consulting-with-canadians/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/spring-is-no-time-to-be-consulting-with-canadians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government side feels the House of Commons is not presently scheduled to sit for a sufficient amount of time.
Facing an outpouring of anger and criticism over prorogation, the Conservatives are cancelling March break on Parliament Hill and one other off week scheduled for mid-April&#8230;
Government Whip Gordon O’Connor sent an email to Tory MPs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105393&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;If he says no then we have contempt of Parliament&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/if-he-says-no-then-we-have-contempt-of-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/if-he-says-no-then-we-have-contempt-of-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Press, Globe, Star, CBC and CTV report from today&#8217;s unofficial hearings of the Afghanistan committee. The Star&#8217;s Allan Woods wraps the day&#8217;s discussion thusly.
Mendes, one of the country’s top constitutional scholars, said Parliament’s power exceeds that of the various national security laws that have been used to censor government memos and diplomatic cables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105352&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is time to recalibrate</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/it-is-time-to-recalibrate/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/it-is-time-to-recalibrate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Aaron Wherry for a live chat Friday, Feb. 5, beginning at 2 p.m.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105344&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over to you, Mr. Nicholson</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/over-to-you-mr-nicholson/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/over-to-you-mr-nicholson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Cannon, appearing in the National Press Theatre just now, asked specifically about the Supreme Court&#8217;s latest ruling on the human rights of Omar Khadr.
I would remind you that there is a process in place, Mr. Obama&#8217;s government has put a process in place, and our position with regard to the process that has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105314&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They want what we have</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/they-want-what-we-have/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/they-want-what-we-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Barack Obama&#8217;s appearance at a Republican gathering last week, a rather eclectic and impressive group of Americans is demanding their own &#8220;Question Time.&#8221; David Corn at Mother Jones explains. Balk at the Awl dissents. David Axelrod isn&#8217;t convinced.
POLITICO asked White House senior adviser David Axelrod about the possibility of regular question time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105282&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let us put our faith in Gary Bettman</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/let-us-put-our-faith-in-gary-bettman/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/let-us-put-our-faith-in-gary-bettman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Lunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Thibeault]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Mulcair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government side responds to the NDP&#8217;s call for a royal commission on hockey violence.
A spokesperson for Sports Minister Gary Lunn said it is up to the various leagues to police themselves. &#8221;We feel it&#8217;s a question best left to the leagues and the role of the federal government is to support players and athletes in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105273&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over to you, Supreme Court?</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/over-to-you-supreme-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/over-to-you-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dimitri soudas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While apparently still reviewing the court&#8217;s decision, the government apparently remains firm in its refusal to request Omar Khadr&#8217;s repatriation.
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105256&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A week and a half in the public life of Michael Ignatieff</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/a-week-and-a-half-in-the-public-life-of-michael-ignatieff/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/a-week-and-a-half-in-the-public-life-of-michael-ignatieff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prorogue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senate reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=105207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suggesting new constraints on a Prime Minister&#8217;s power to request prorogation? Pitching specific measures to deal with unemployment? Promising to restore funding to Status of Women Canada? Talking of a national strategy on brain disease? Proposing Senate reform? Committing himself to child care? Speaking sharply about the Karzai administration? And now preemptively opening discussion on potentially contentious questions of foreign policy?
What, precisely, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105207&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Commons: &#8216;This is our game and we need to protect our players&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/the-commons-this-is-our-game-and-we-need-to-protect-our-players/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/the-commons-this-is-our-game-and-we-need-to-protect-our-players/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broad Street Bullies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Cherry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Thibeault]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrice Cormier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Patrice Cormier, look what ye hath wrought<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105101&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over to you, Mr. Harper</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/over-to-you-mr-harper/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/over-to-you-mr-harper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Macklin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Milne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Kirk Makin explained over the weekend, the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling last week on Omar Khadr is something less than a conclusion to the story. Today, Audrey Macklin, Diana Juricevic and Cheryl Milne lay out what it may all mean.
Does this mean that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won the court&#8217;s permission to continue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105091&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dean Del Mastro is disappointed in you</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/dean-del-mastro-is-disappointed-in-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/dean-del-mastro-is-disappointed-in-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean del Mastro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative MP for Peterborough pines for simpler times, before television and the Internet messed everything up.
Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro said he doesn&#8217;t understand the controversy surrounding his government&#8217;s decision to prorogue Parliament until March 3. &#8221;I don&#8217;t really understand the current reaction. Government has been prorogued 105 times,&#8221; Del Mastro told a group of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105072&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s mom has spoken</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/dalton-mcguintys-mom-has-spoken/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/02/dalton-mcguintys-mom-has-spoken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalton McGuinty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Momma McGuinty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prorogue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the Prime Minister&#8217;s latest prorogation is making life difficult for the Premier of Ontario.
&#8220;One of the challenges that we have now politically is that prorogation has become a bad thing,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8221;My mother is now aware of what a prorogation is and she thinks prorogations are bad.&#8221;
       [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=105020&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;There is one consequence that will stand out&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/there-is-one-consequence-that-will-stand-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/there-is-one-consequence-that-will-stand-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAPP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those pesky kids at Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament are apparently starting to think rather serious thoughts.
While the Conservatives are feeling some heat from proroguing Parliament, including dips in public opinion, after March 3 it will likely be business as usual (with or without a spring election). There is one consequence that will stand out for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104990&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On second thought (II)</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/on-second-thought-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/on-second-thought-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genevieve Breton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandatory minimums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pierre poilievre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Nicholson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hill Times discovers that Rob Nicholson was vice-chair of a Parliamentary committee that, in 1988, advised against pursuing mandatory minimums. Mr. Nicholson&#8217;s director of communications attempts to explain the distance between that report and the Justice Minister&#8217;s current rhetoric.
Geneviève Breton, Mr. Nicholson&#8217;s (Niagara Falls, Ont.) director of communications, said in an email to The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104940&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The government&#8217;s attention is required at the luge track</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/the-governments-attention-is-required-at-the-luge-track/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/the-governments-attention-is-required-at-the-luge-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stockwell Day explains why it was necessary to prorogue Parliament.
“Prorogation is a relatively customary process, now with the Olympics and re-organizing our fiscal plan we felt we needed the time,” says Day.
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		<title>Idea alert</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/idea-alert-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/01/idea-alert-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff proposes senate reform.
Ignatieff proposed a 12-year term limit on Senate positions and an arms-length committee tasked with vetting candidates. &#8221;I&#8217;d even go as far as to limit the prime minister&#8217;s prerogative to appoint senators. That is, I&#8217;d pass (appointments) through a public service appointment commission, so we scrub it and get the best possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104919&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shouldn&#8217;t he be busy recalibrating and consulting with Americans?</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/shouldnt-he-be-busy-recalibrating-and-consulting-with-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/shouldnt-he-be-busy-recalibrating-and-consulting-with-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chuck todd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ezra Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Ambinder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President of the United States attends a meeting of congressional Republicans and takes questions. American observers are variously thrilled and astonished by the results.
Whether it was chutzpah, political savvy, or both, it certainly was refreshing. Reporters were thrilled with the British-parliament-type exchange between president and lawmaker. The Atlantic&#8217;s Marc Ambinder asked that forums like these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104878&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Runciman is a quick study</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/bob-runciman-is-a-quick-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/bob-runciman-is-a-quick-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Runciman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=104853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new senator, speaking to reporters this morning. &#8220;And what is worse, are politicians who say one thing while the cameras are running but do another when they think no one is paying attention &#8230; Michael Ignatieff wants you to believe that he is tough on crime, but when push came to shove, Canadians couldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104853&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please remain seated</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/please-remain-seated/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/please-remain-seated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Khadr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press gallery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=104827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper, Nov. 21, 2009. We believe strongly that Canadians&#8217; freedom is enhanced when journalists are free to pursue the truth, to shine light into dark corners and assist the process of holding government&#8217;s accountable.
CBC, today. Harper flew back from Switzerland today.  While in the air his office announced the appointment of five new Senators and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104827&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Government is pleased&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/the-government-is-pleased/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/the-government-is-pleased/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Khadr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Nicholson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Nicholson&#8217;s office releases a statement in regards to the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision.
“The Government is pleased that the Supreme Court has recognized the ‘constitutional responsibility of the executive to make decisions on matters of foreign affairs in the context of complex and ever-changing circumstances, taking into account Canada&#8217;s broader interests.’ The Supreme Court overturned two previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104803&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gerard Kennedy Maverick Watch</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/gerard-kennedy-maverick-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/gerard-kennedy-maverick-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliamentary budget officer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal MP dares champion the notions of &#8220;discussion&#8221; and &#8220;consideration&#8221; and even &#8220;debate.&#8221;
Leading economists, former Finance officials and Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page have all said sales tax increases are required to balance the books. It has not gone unnoticed among some Liberals that in Britain, the Conservative opposition is leading the polls and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104746&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Khadr verdict</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/the-khadr-verdict/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/the-khadr-verdict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Khadr]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has ruled that Omar Khadr&#8217;s rights have been violated, but that the Court will not, at this time, order the federal government to request his repatriation. The full ruling is here.
K is entitled to a remedy under s. 24(1) of the Charter.  The remedy sought by K — an order that Canada request his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104630&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five for fighting</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/five-for-fighting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Rae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Runciman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre-Highes Boisvenu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prorogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proroguing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose-May Poirier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vim Kochar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You new senators are Bob Runciman, Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, Vim Kochhar, Elizabeth Marshall, and Rose-May Poirier. Runciman, for one, has already proven a valuable member of the team.
In 1985, opposition leader Bob Runciman was part of Frank Miller&#8217;s minority government. He recalls Rae was instrumental in engineering the Tories&#8217; downfall. Miller was in a weaker position [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104626&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On second thought</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/on-second-thought-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genevieve Breton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Nicholson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Criminal Justice Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While agreeing on the use of the word &#8220;failure&#8221; to describe the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Prime Minister and Justice Minister apparently differ on the applicability of the word &#8220;unmitigated.&#8221;
The Harper government has decided to tweak rather than overhaul Canada&#8217;s young offender laws, which the prime minister once dismissed as an &#8220;unmitigated failure&#8221;&#8230;
Mr. Nicholson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104597&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now is not the time for democracy (II)</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/now-is-not-the-time-for-democracy-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/now-is-not-the-time-for-democracy-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kelowna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Cannan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Cannan seeks to clarify his previously reported explanation.
Yesterday, Kelowna.com reported that Cannan said one of the reasons why his government decided to suspend parliament was to avoid the possibility of a non-confidence vote forcing an election before it has a chance to table its budget and implement the second phase of its economic stimulus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104587&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And you all laughed</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/and-you-all-laughed/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/and-you-all-laughed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond The Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew coyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christie Blatchford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleeza Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Abdullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter MacKay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Mercer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saudi arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Layton, Sept. 1, 2006. &#8220;A comprehensive peace process has to bring all the combatants to the table.&#8221;
New York Times, today. Afghanistan’s president declared Thursday that reaching out to the Taliban’s leaders should be a centerpiece of efforts to end the eight-year-old war there, setting in motion a delicate diplomatic process that will carry great risks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104494&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Accountability, ladies and gentlemen, is the prerequisite for progress&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/accountability-ladies-and-gentlemen-is-the-prerequisite-for-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/28/accountability-ladies-and-gentlemen-is-the-prerequisite-for-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wherry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Flaherty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Carney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Van Loan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prepared text of the Prime Minister&#8217;s speech in Davos today.
“It’s great to be here in Davos and to have this opportunity to contribute to your discussions on some of the vital issues confronting the world today.  Some of them are complex and they may, at times, seem abstract.  But for ordinary men and women [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=www2.macleans.ca&blog=2865078&post=104451&subd=macleans&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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