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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>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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		<title>Bad Week for Ukraine</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/19/bad/</link>
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		<title>Save Us From the Ideologues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideologues have their place.  Mostly it is in irrelevant and out of the way places like think tanks and obscure academic departments.  There they are largely harmless as they spin us with their imaginary worlds  and irrelevant schemes.  However, they can become a problem if they are able to occupy important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/06/save-us-from-the-ideologues/</link>
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		<title>Harper Has Hardly Mounted an Attack on Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something puzzlingly about some of the more extreme reactions to the prorogation of Parliament by Prime Minister Harper.  Not surprisingly, those who have a stake in the political dogfights in Ottawa have been highly critical.  The leaders of the opposition parties have understandably objected to the removal of the Parliamentary stage, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/05/1218/</link>
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