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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>Unreformed CD Howe Institute Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/18/unreformed-cd-howe-centre-wrong-headed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1286</guid>
		<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>Darn.  We Got the Security Obsessed, No Fun, Elite Olympics!</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/28/the-buttoned-up-no-fun-no-come-olymoics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/28/the-buttoned-up-no-fun-no-come-olymoics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Olympics approach I am trying hard to get into the mood and share some of the fun and excitement.  But I am having a problem.  I can&#8217;t find the excitement.  And no one seems to be having any fun, nor do many think they will even when the Olympics start. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning Green Energy: Science, Independent Advisers, and Advocacy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/27/time-to-separate-politics-from-un-climate-change-panel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/27/time-to-separate-politics-from-un-climate-change-panel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A highly respected climate change scientist has taken aim at fellow members of the UN&#8217;s International Panel on Climate Change who engage in political advocacy.  Andrew Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria, is concerned that some panel members have become involved in advocating particular climate change policies and actions rather than serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Gets it Right on Bank Regulation</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/obana-gets-it-rigtht-on-bank-reguation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has announced a new plan to limit the size of banks and place restrictions on the trading and holding of assets of uncertain value by banks. &#8220;The American taxpayer will never again be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail&#8221;, he said.
Much of the media attention has focused on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Economists Pursue Redemption?</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/29/can-economists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redemption is a very human process through which those who have erred renew their social value through acknowledgment. reflection and revealed learning.  It is a process through which people of recognized value to society who have failed in their social responsibility regain their ability to contribute.  It confirms that error does not discredit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Investigate Policy Copied by Campbell</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/19/campbell-embraces-unfortunate-danish-energy-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/19/campbell-embraces-unfortunate-danish-energy-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Sun profiled Premier Gordon Campbell on Friday in Denmark endorsing not the Copenhagen Accord, but the Danish policy of subsidizing private wind power at the expense of taxpayers.  He claimed that Denmark sets an example for us if we want to develop clean energy.  And indeed it appears that his government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland Flounders; Britain Tries for Budget Sanity</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/10/economic-woes-and-budget-realities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/10/economic-woes-and-budget-realities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The true dimensions of the economic crisis of the last year is becoming clear as we see western countries set out their budgets for the coming year.  Yesterday both Ireland and Britain set out what the future means given the events of the past 12 months.  Ireland was once the economic miracle known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Doomed</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/10/mackenzie-gas-pipeline-doomed-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/10/mackenzie-gas-pipeline-doomed-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Project has been part of the lore of generations of Canadians, particularly in Northern Canada, since the 1970&#8217;s.  It was then that the dream of building a huge natural gas pipeline from the delta of the MacKenzie River to southern Canada first took shape.  At that time it was [...]]]></description>
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