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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>
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		<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>Suppressing Embarrassment During the Olympics</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/13/governments-to-use-power-to-suppress-embar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are being told by government and Vancouver city officials that while the Olympics is a feel good event, Vancouver residents and visitors can&#8217;t go so far as to express themselves in ways that might embarrass the city.  Three recent changes in laws and policies that add significantly to the powers of the provincial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Extremist Attacks First Nations Olympic Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/07/nut-case-on-the-loose-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog in the pages of the respectable London (UK) Telegraph contains a wild and hateful outburst by Rachel Marsden late of sexual harassment  charges and Canadian conservative politics.  Vancouverites will remember her as a nut case whose currency was outrageous lies and destructive hate.  One of her most infamous acts was to take down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Rethink Property Tax Breaks for Business</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/09/23/time-to-rethink-property-tax-break-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/09/23/time-to-rethink-property-tax-break-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal governments all across the province are busily developing their budgets for the next tax year, which starts January 1, 2009.  Most will be trying hard to restrain their budgets.  The affects of the recession are now being felt full force and one can bet that taxpayers are not going to be receptive to paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver  Taxes Unsustainable</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/07/31/vancouver-taxes-unsustainable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 2 marked the deadline to pay local property taxes and many homeowners are justified in asking, “Why are my taxes rising so steeply?”]]></description>
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