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		<title>Let My Own Lack of a Voice be Heard</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2011/03/24/let-my-own-lack-of-a-voice-be-heard/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=let-my-own-lack-of-a-voice-be-heard</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nadeem Fetaih</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five-week campaign for Prime Minister is to start next week. That means five weeks of political bashing. Five weeks of lies and empty promises. Five weeks of unimportant dribble being spouted out by parties in every spectrum of the political elite. I for one am done with it. I can no longer sit back [...]


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<li><a href='http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/17/the-ontario-tories-have-lost-their-voice-in-the-hst-debate/' rel='bookmark' title='The Ontario Tories Have Lost Their Voice in the HST Debate'>The Ontario Tories Have Lost Their Voice in the HST Debate</a> <small>Many Ontarians are wondering: where is the official opposition in...</small></li>
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		<title>H1N1 &#8211; The Pandemic that Barely Was</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/05/02/h1n1-the-pandemic-that-barely-was/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=h1n1-the-pandemic-that-barely-was</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam A. Donaldson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada and the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How you doing? Sniffly? Sneezy? Got a frog in your throat or a crick in the neck? Do you feel, to use the vernacular, like you want to barf up a lung? Nope. “Fine.” That’s good to hear. And on that account, I say told you so. With spring springing and the arrival of longer, [...]


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<li><a href='http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/30/swine-flu-h1n1-vaccines-the-ministry-of-health-mess/' rel='bookmark' title='Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccines &amp; The Ministry of Health Mess'>Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccines &#038; The Ministry of Health Mess</a> <small>News of the Swine-Flu started drifting into the media back...</small></li>
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		<title>Stephen Harper Has Proven Again That Political Experience and Political Toughness matters:Machiavelli Would be Proud</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/04/16/stephen-harper-has-proven-again-that-political-experience-and-political-toughness-mattersmachiavelli-would-be-proud/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stephen-harper-has-proven-again-that-political-experience-and-political-toughness-mattersmachiavelli-would-be-proud</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Tulloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier posting, I had discussed why certain politicians are more successful than others and the influence of Machiavelli on modern politics. Stephen Harper was cited as one of those successful politicians: someone concerned primarily about his own interests and someone willing to do what it takes to succeed. The recent treatment of Helena [...]


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		<title>In the Realm of Canadian Federal and Provincial Politics, it Does Appear to be True That Nice Guys Come in Last</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/06/in-the-realm-of-canadian-federal-and-provincial-politics-it-does-appear-to-be-true-that-nice-guys-come-in-last/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-the-realm-of-canadian-federal-and-provincial-politics-it-does-appear-to-be-true-that-nice-guys-come-in-last</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Tulloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Great men are almost always bad men.&#8221; - Lord Acton Fortune is a woman, and if you wish to conquer her, you must beat and coerce her. And she always smiles upon the young man, because he commands her with the greatest audacity. The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli Because the great English historian had written [...]


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		<title>Feds Sell Provinces to World Trade Organization Under Cover of “Buy American”</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/01/feds-sell-provinces-to-world-trade-organization-under-cover-of-%e2%80%9cbuy-american%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feds-sell-provinces-to-world-trade-organization-under-cover-of-%25e2%2580%259cbuy-american%25e2%2580%259d</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Griffiths</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Party]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seemingly lost amidst the Olympic shuffle last week was an announcement by the Harper government on reaching an agreement with the United States that allowed for Canadian exceptions to the highly contentious “Buy American” regulations. The regulations, imposed last-year by the U.S. government, blocked Canadian manufacturers from bidding on almost $800-billion worth of contracts tied [...]


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		<title>Stephen Harper Turns to Hypocrisy in the Face of Discord</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/17/stephen-harper-turns-to-hypocrisy-in-the-face-of-discord/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stephen-harper-turns-to-hypocrisy-in-the-face-of-discord</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with some interest in the Globe and Mail recently of the quashing of a grassroots challenge to a sitting Conservative MP. As reported by Steven Chase, the governing body of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) took over control of Calgary West riding association a few days ago in order to do damage [...]


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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; One Sly Talking Fellow in his State of the Union Address</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/13/barack-obama-one-sly-talking-fellow-in-his-state-of-the-union-address/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=barack-obama-one-sly-talking-fellow-in-his-state-of-the-union-address</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Brinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only Canadian that wishes Barack Obama could be my leader? Politics aside, the man can speak. When he gives a speech, people listen. When Stephen Harper gives a speech, people fall asleep, or at least I do. From the moment Obama took office and said that he would &#8220;unclench his fist and [...]


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		<title>Thoughts on Conservative Ideology and Contemporary Issues</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/04/thoughts-on-conservative-ideology-and-contemporary-issues/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thoughts-on-conservative-ideology-and-contemporary-issues</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessi Murray-Tuba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to use John Baird as an example for this, since he is &#8220;openly&#8221; (debatable) gay, but also a member of a party that we associate being ideologically opposed to homosexuality. Ideologies are kind of like really old philosophical theories: They are based on a few central ideas, and then the ideas are [...]


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		<title>Harper Government Names Realtor as Royal Canadian Mounted Police Watchdog</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/01/harper-government-names-realtor-as-royal-canadian-mounted-police-watchdog/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=harper-government-names-realtor-as-royal-canadian-mounted-police-watchdog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Griffiths</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 18, the Harper government announced the appointment of a new chair to the Commission for Public Complaints about the RCMP (CPC) – the organization tasked with conducting investigations into complaints about our national police force. Ian McPhail, a lawyer specializing in wills &#38; real estate and a long-time contributor to the Conservative Party [...]


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		<title>A Piece on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Decision to Prorogue Parliament</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anthony Federico</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PM, proving to be quite uncreative when it comes to governance, has again suspended parliament. As The Economist put it (7 Jan 2010), “Stephen Harper is counting on Canadians’ complacency as he rewrites the rules of his country’s politics to weaken legislative scrutiny.” But the “gathering storm of media criticism” they forecasted is fading [...]


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