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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[economy policy]]></category>
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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>Ontario Makes Sense on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>A Good Day to Celebrate Science</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/24/a-good-ay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/24/a-good-ay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 24, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.  This now notorious book is perhaps more than any other both the most reviled and the most admired book in the history of science.  Darwin set off a stormy debate and protest that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BC To Spew Out More Global Warming Gases</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/19/bc-pushes-more-gobal-warming-gases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/19/bc-pushes-more-gobal-warming-gases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I argued that the sole reason the BC Campbell government ordered BC Hydro to take the Burrard Thermal gas generating station off its base supply is to make room for newly rich private owners of high cost hydro plants to make piles of money at our expense.  Campbell claims it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quebec Right to Challenge Supreme Court Schools Ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/14/1080/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/14/1080/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CBC reports that PQ culture critic Pierre Curzi is calling on the Quebec government to invoke the notwithstanding clause. The Parti Québécois is urging the Quebec government to use the &#8216;notwithstanding clause&#8217; to limit access to private English schools after the Supreme Court quashed Bill 104, part of the province’s language legislation.
Bill 104 had [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/13/governments-to-use-power-to-suppress-embar/#comments</comments>
		<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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