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	<title>Political News and blogs on Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics and Voting on Informed Vote &#124; InformedVote.ca &#187; stephen harper</title>
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	<description>Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike</description>
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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/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/04/16/stephen-harper-has-proven-again-that-political-experience-and-political-toughness-mattersmachiavelli-would-be-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Tulloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rahim Jaffer]]></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/</link>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Tulloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canadian federal politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lord acton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machiavelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pierre trudau]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2636</guid>
		<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 extensively about liberty and federalism, it [...]


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		<title>Premier of Newfoundland Danny Williams’ Heart Surgery Means PR Emergency</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/20/premier-of-newfoundland-danny-williams%e2%80%99-heart-surgery-means-pr-emergency/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/20/premier-of-newfoundland-danny-williams%e2%80%99-heart-surgery-means-pr-emergency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam A. Donaldson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[danny williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It takes a special kind of political acumens for a regional Canadian politician to make news headlines both north and south of the border, but Danny Williams has done it.

The Blogosphere across North America lit up a few weeks ago with the news that the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador was heading to an undisclosed [...]


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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/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/17/stephen-harper-turns-to-hypocrisy-in-the-face-of-discord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Painter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canadian politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative party of canada]]></category>
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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/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/13/barack-obama-one-sly-talking-fellow-in-his-state-of-the-union-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Brinker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://informedvote.ca/?p=2494</guid>
		<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>A Piece on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Decision to Prorogue Parliament</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/01/a-piece-on-prime-minister-stephen-harper-and-his-decision-to-prorogue-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/02/01/a-piece-on-prime-minister-stephen-harper-and-his-decision-to-prorogue-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<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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		<title>A Prorogation Primer: Understanding What You Are Protesting and That “Prime Minister” and “Prorogation” Are Not the Same</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/28/a-prorogation-primer-understanding-what-you-are-protesting-and-that-%e2%80%9cprime-minister%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cprorogation%e2%80%9d-are-not-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Petryshen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the excitement about prorogation it has become fairly obvious that the vast majority of the Canadian public—present company included—don’t know much about what it actually is.  Normally, I use this space to share my opinion, but this time I will preface it with something a little less subjective.  Today I would [...]


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		<title>Baseless: Stephen Harper’s Liberal Solution</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/23/baseless-stephen-harper%e2%80%99s-liberal-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/23/baseless-stephen-harper%e2%80%99s-liberal-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fraser Nelund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HCBAX9NPSJB8 It is a truism that the Conservative’s base votes. When it comes to the nitty gritty hardship of going all the way to that local community building and making an X, the core supporters of said party are never apathetic (except arguably about what the Conservatives are doing).

The base on the Left? What base [...]


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		<title>Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s Cabinet Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/20/prime-minister-stephen-harpers-cabinet-shuffle/</link>
		<comments>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/20/prime-minister-stephen-harpers-cabinet-shuffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fraser Nelund</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cabinet shuffle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Paradis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Ashfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Raitt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly let us recall that the small government-touting Conservatives have gone from a twenty-seven member cabinet, a “smaller Cabinet and more streamlined Cabinet structure… designed for work—not for show” (Stephen Harper), to their current thirty-eight member (awkward and showy?) cabinet.

Secondly, let us take a look at the January nineteenth&#8217;s move of Lisa Raitt from her [...]


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		<title>Populist Party: Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservative Criminal Justice Policy</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2010/01/18/populist-party-stephen-harpers-conservatives-criminal-justice-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fraser Nelund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-intellectualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stephen harper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to steer away from prorogation for a moment here and bring up some old but interesting points. Perhaps the following can be seen as being applicable to that issue, I leave that to the reader.

Populism=Anti-intellectualism.

I do not intend to engage in a debate about proper criminal justice policy. I intend to prove that [...]


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