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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>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>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>Left Needs to Deal With Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/03/left-needs-to-deal-with-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade the political left has had a lot of trouble with the issue of terrorism.  Bush&#8217;s seemingly unthinking and ideological response to Islamic fundamentalist antagonism confirmed for many on the left that the modern version of world terrorism is in fact nothing more than a reaction to the persistence  of [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Harper and Mackay Need to Show Humility</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/26/1156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blow-up in Parliament over the testimony of a former Canadian intelligence agent in Afghanistan is fraught with errors and missed opportunities.  The agent, Richard Colvin, testified that from May 2006 through to the end of 2007 he frequently informed officials and politicians that Taliban prisoners transferred by Canadian forces to Afghani jails were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Must Address Crisis Group Report on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/26/crisis-group-recommendations-need-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A just released report from the excellent International Crisis Group (ICC) looks at the disastrous Afghanistan Presidential election and concludes that the election &#8220;delivered a critical blow to the legitimacy of both the government and the international community&#8221;.  The ICC says: 
“Karzai’s retaining power under these circumstances has bolstered the impression that the international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Oxfam on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/18/1109/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poll by Oxfam just completed in Afghanistan makes interesting reading.  It suggests that ordinary Afghanis see the things that make their life miserable somewhat differently than the popular reports put out by diplomats and the international media .  Based on a sample of 720 people, seven in ten (70%) individuals see unemployment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Fails First Big Test</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/04/hillary-fails-big-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/04/hillary-fails-big-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The August presidential election should have been an important step in securing the future of Afghanistan.  With increasing concerns about the Taliban&#8217;s success in spreading its insurgency, and doubts about whether the Afghan government is carrying its share of the burden, the election was important in building credibility at home and abroad.
Instead it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Afghan Election Right</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/01/990/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai&#8217;s main contender in the Afghan election, Abdullah Abdullah, has announced that he will not be running in the election between he and Karzai scheduled for November 7.  He has done so for good reason.  Karzai has maintained an iron grip over the election machinery.  He used that plus other corrupt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on Canada for Failing Women</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/30/shame-on-canada-for-failing-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/30/shame-on-canada-for-failing-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Economic Forum has just recently published its annual rankings of countries in terms of gender equality and gender participation.  In preparing the rankings it obtains comparable data from every country, ranks the countries from best to worst, scores each in terms of inequality, and compares each to the average score for all [...]]]></description>
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