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	<description>Essays on public policy and political issues from Doug McArthur at SFU&#039;s public policy school</description>
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		<title>The B.C. Economy in Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/05/03/the-b-c-economy-in-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a paper that I prepared on the BC economy was released.  I hope readers will find  it of interest.  The paper can be found at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30728436/Looking-Forward-The-BC-Economy-at-a-Crossroads
The paper was prepared at the request of the Leader of the BC Official Opposition, who wanted a background study and analysis of the economy.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Not) Smart Utility De-Regulation</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/04/29/not-smart-utility-regulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BC Government has announced that the BC Utilities Commission will no longer have jurisdiction over electricity projects the government deems to be for export.  This is to block the Commission from ruling on the run-away private hydro projects that the government has embraced in a desperate bid to bring some investment activity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry for the Absence</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/04/29/sorry-for-the-absence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some may have noticed I have not posted anything here for some time.  I have been busy with other writing, supervising graduate students and marking papers.  However, I am back and will try to be a little more regular with postings. 
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		<title>Unreformed CD Howe Institute Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/18/unreformed-cd-howe-centre-wrong-headed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/18/unreformed-cd-howe-centre-wrong-headed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was with a sense of despair, frsutration and anger that I reviewed the just released report on government fiscal policy by the CD Howe Institute.  Self styled as the &#8216;venerable&#8217; centre of economic policy in Canada, the report simply confirms the depth of the failed orthodoxy in economics today and the incredible inability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Feels Spooky Two Days Before Olympics</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/10/city-feels-spooky-two-days-before-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/10/city-feels-spooky-two-days-before-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in the heart of the Vancouver Olympics venues, one block from the opening ceremonies, three blocks from the hockey centre and two blocks from the main entertainment stage.  I walk through the area a number of times every day.   
Tonight feels really odd.   The restauarants and shops have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario Makes Sense on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One province has finally got it right on green energy.  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has just announced a $7 billion deal that will have Samsung commit to a major transformation of the electricity generating system.  Samsung will invest in a big way in wind and solar energy as part of a move away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Week for Ukraine</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/19/bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ukraine has just completed the first round of voting in a historic election for President. The old conservative Soviet era clique is back, after seeming to have been rejected by the people in the previous 2004 election.  The people back then took to the streets in peaceful protest against a corrupt and authoritarian President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Us From the Ideologues</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/06/save-us-from-the-ideologues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/06/save-us-from-the-ideologues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideologues have their place.  Mostly it is in irrelevant and out of the way places like think tanks and obscure academic departments.  There they are largely harmless as they spin us with their imaginary worlds  and irrelevant schemes.  However, they can become a problem if they are able to occupy important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper Has Hardly Mounted an Attack on Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/05/1218/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something puzzlingly about some of the more extreme reactions to the prorogation of Parliament by Prime Minister Harper.  Not surprisingly, those who have a stake in the political dogfights in Ottawa have been highly critical.  The leaders of the opposition parties have understandably objected to the removal of the Parliamentary stage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Sorry Chantal Hebert, You Don&#8217;t Understand Political Parties</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/31/1201/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/31/1201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The usually insightful Chantal Hebert of the CBC political panel and the Toronto Sun writes on December 31 that the Liberals will never again govern until they understand that in today&#8217;s political alignments the NDP makes a Liberal majority impossible.  The road to power for the Liberals goes through the offices of the NDP [...]]]></description>
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