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		<title>A Good Day to Celebrate Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Shame on Canada for Failing Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Top Court Wrong: Quebec School Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court struck down Bill 104, a Quebec law that clarified the status of immigrants and non-English speaking children who attend early grade English language schools. There was understandable disappointment and anger from Quebec politicians.  The unanimous Supreme Court ruling called Bill 104 &#8220;excessive&#8221;, saying it unjustifiably infringed on minority language rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong Time To Cut Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With budget cuts the current focus of the BC Government, and many other provincial governments, the affects of such cuts are brought into focus in a just released report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where the importance of education investments is reviewed in preparation for the expected economic recovery.   The report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Women at Work Unfair and Unnecessary</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/09/06/failing-women-at-work-unfair-and-unecessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Law Society of British Columbia has released an important report documenting the disappointing failure of the profession to retain women in practice and to promote women to senior partner positions.  The report finds that women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than [...]]]></description>
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