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	<title>Political News and blogs on Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics and Voting on Informed Vote &#124; InformedVote.ca &#187; Foreign Affairs</title>
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		<title>Everyone Should Follow Winston Churchill&#8217;s Lead: Read Or Write Often And Widely, Even During Your Darkest Hour</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/04/10/everyone-should-follow-winston-churchills-lead-read-or-write-often-and-widely-even-during-your-darkest-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Tulloch</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More books are sold in Canada during the winter months than any other time of the year. It probably has to do with the frequent gift-giving occasions during that time of the year. Stumped for a gift idea, we will often resort to buying books. Most books, however, are probably read during the spring and [...]


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		<title>Another Oil War? United Kingdom Versus Latin America: Oil Discovered off Falklands</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/01/another-oil-war-united-kingdom-versus-latin-america-oil-discovered-off-falklands/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/01/another-oil-war-united-kingdom-versus-latin-america-oil-discovered-off-falklands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[falklands]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2611</guid>
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Oil has been discovered in the waters around the Falklands. This has revived the decades-old conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, both of which claim the islands &#8211; and this time the rest of Latin America is united behind Argentina. Will we see the developed world unite behind England?

Given the realities of peak oil, [...]


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		<title>The Case for a Careful North American Union</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/12/the-case-for-a-careful-north-american-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.R. Colton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of a North American Union in many incarnations has been discussed in academic, social and political circles for several decades. Former Mexican President Vincente Fox was enthusiastic about the idea, but at the time members of US government busied themselves writing resolutions, speeches and blogs in opposition to the whole idea. Canadian leaders [...]


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		<title>China Premier Wen Jiaobao&#8217;s Slap on Stephen Harper&#8217;s Wrist May Reflect Larger Issues</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/12/04/china-premier-wen-jiaobaos-slap-on-stephen-harpers-wrist-may-reflect-larger-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/12/04/china-premier-wen-jiaobaos-slap-on-stephen-harpers-wrist-may-reflect-larger-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Farquharson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Premier Wen Jiaobao of China delivered a rebuke to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday. According to Premier Wen, one of the country’s most popular and senior politicians, Harper’s visit to China has been tardy, and diplomatic meetings between the leaders of the two countries have been too infrequent. The proverbial slap on the [...]


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		<title>How Much Accountability is Necessary and Do Canadians Care About the Afghan Torture Story?</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/25/how-much-accountability-is-necessary-and-do-canadians-care-about-the-afghan-torture-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Painter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my honest opinion, this constant reframing of the governments narrative calls into question the complicity of senior PMO officials, ministers and even the Prime Minister.  There are simply too many questions unanswered here.


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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Top Commander Jonathan Vance Voices Concerns About The Afghan Mission</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/10/canadas-top-commander-jonathan-vance-voices-concerns-about-the-afghan-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/10/canadas-top-commander-jonathan-vance-voices-concerns-about-the-afghan-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ramphal</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brigadier-General Jonathon Vance, Canada’s commander in Afghanistan, has been the most recent high level official to state publicly what many NATO military and political leaders are increasingly recognizing as a primary obstacle to success in the war torn country.

“The international community is going to demand honesty, integrity and good performance from all levels of government [...]


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		<title>NDP Press Release Criticizes Conservative Immigration Numbers</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/07/ndp-press-release-criticizes-conservative-immigration-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/07/ndp-press-release-criticizes-conservative-immigration-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessi Murray-Tuba</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ The NDP sent out a press release criticizing the Conservative Party and immigration minister Jason Kenney for reducing the number of immigrants who will be accepted into the country in the upcoming year. The document claims that the 2010 numbers are being reduced to over half of the numbers from 2009, leaving out approximately [...]


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		<title>Former Tamil Tigers Illegally Seek Refugee Asylum in Canada</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/06/former-tamil-tigers-illegally-seek-refugee-asylum-in-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/06/former-tamil-tigers-illegally-seek-refugee-asylum-in-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A common misconception, I have found, is that people (and often the media) assume the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) and the Tamil people are one in the same.  This is a gross misconception, for many Tamil people do not support the LTTE and if they do, it was [...]


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		<title>Canada Will Not Repatriate Woman in Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/29/canada-will-not-repatriate-woman-in-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/29/canada-will-not-repatriate-woman-in-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian government has decided not to repatriate a Quebec woman living in Saudi Arabia who claims her husband is not allowing her to leave the country. Nathalie Morin, who married a Saudi Arabian man over eight years ago, is subject to the Saudi law that women and their children cannot leave the country without [...]


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		<title>Canada and Afghanistan; Strange Bedfellows That Are Soon to Part Company</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/28/canada-and-afghanistan-strange-bedfellows-that-are-soon-to-part-company/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/28/canada-and-afghanistan-strange-bedfellows-that-are-soon-to-part-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Ramphal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a week after refusing to entertain the idea of a runoff election, it appears sufficient pressure has been applied to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai from his international patrons, that he has been forced to accept what many have considered inevitable for the past two months; a second round of voting for the dubious honor [...]


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