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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>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/05/03/the-b-c-economy-in-transition/</link>
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		<title>(Not) Smart Utility De-Regulation</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/04/29/not-smart-utility-regulation/</link>
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		<title>Sorry for the Absence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some may have noticed I have not posted anything here for some time.  I have been busy with other writing, supervising graduate students and marking papers.  However, I am back and will try to be a little more regular with postings. 
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		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/04/29/sorry-for-the-absence/</link>
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		<title>Ignatieff Pulling Liberals Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I predicted that Harper would suffer little lasting damage from the prorogation debacle.  Many challenged this conclusion, pointing to the drop in Conservative support in the immediate aftermath.
I was not claiming that there would be no short term damage.  It was a dumb move that caused many soft voters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/23/ignatieff-pulling-liberals-down/</link>
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		<title>Unreformed CD Howe Institute Wrong</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/18/unreformed-cd-howe-centre-wrong-headed/</link>
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		<title>City Feels Spooky Two Days Before Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in the heart of the Vancouver Olympics venues, one block from the opening ceremonies, three blocks from the hockey centre and two blocks from the main entertainment stage.  I walk through the area a number of times every day.   
Tonight feels really odd.   The restauarants and shops have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/10/city-feels-spooky-two-days-before-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Darn.  We Got the Security Obsessed, No Fun, Elite Olympics!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/28/the-buttoned-up-no-fun-no-come-olymoics/</link>
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		<title>Spinning Green Energy: Science, Independent Advisers, and Advocacy</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/27/time-to-separate-politics-from-un-climate-change-panel/</link>
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		<title>Obama Gets it Right on Bank Regulation</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/obana-gets-it-rigtht-on-bank-reguation/</link>
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		<title>Ontario Makes Sense on Green Energy</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/</link>
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