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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>Salmon Inquiry Should Act Before BC Kills More Salmon</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/13/waht-do-governments-not-get-about-salmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ink is hardly dry on Stephen Harper&#8217;s press release setting up the Salmon Inquiry.  Now we have the news that the BC Government (you know, the one that keeps telling us how green it is) will be removing gravel from the lower Fraser River this winter, even though all the experts know this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Doomed</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/10/mackenzie-gas-pipeline-doomed-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Project has been part of the lore of generations of Canadians, particularly in Northern Canada, since the 1970&#8217;s.  It was then that the dream of building a huge natural gas pipeline from the delta of the MacKenzie River to southern Canada first took shape.  At that time it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough Blame To Go Around for Salmon Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/06/salmon-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Government has established an inquiry into the management of west coast salmon stocks.  This has long been sought by John Cummins, MP from Delta, BC, who lays the primary blame on the First Nations and the aboriginal right to fish.  It has also been sought by the NDP, who profess to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BC Treaty Commission is Right</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/15/bc-treaty-commission-is-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BC First Nations Treaty Commission has just released a report highly critical of the Government of Canada and BC for the slow rate of progress of treaty negotiations.  In particular it finds that the mandates of the government negotiators are far too limited to make agreements possible.  Take this to mean that government offers [...]]]></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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