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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>Bad Week for Ukraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Can Economists Pursue Redemption?</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/29/can-economists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redemption is a very human process through which those who have erred renew their social value through acknowledgment. reflection and revealed learning.  It is a process through which people of recognized value to society who have failed in their social responsibility regain their ability to contribute.  It confirms that error does not discredit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quebec Right to Challenge Supreme Court Schools Ruling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Shame on Canada for Failing Women</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/30/shame-on-canada-for-failing-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/27/934/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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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>The Fraser Institute Abandons Iceland</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/23/the-right-abandons-iceland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try as I might, I am having trouble finding staunch defenses of Iceland from the economists and think tanks responsible for the country going over the economic precipice a few months ago.  Iceland, as many people probably know, was a poster child of Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago and Michael Walker of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Doer Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/17/787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can you say about Gary Doer?  Today he stepped down as Premier of Manitoba.  He gave the people of Manitoba good government.  He delivered what he promised but never promised what he could not deliver.   Rather than creating problems, he solved problems.  He balanced the budget, not on the backs of the poor, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to Attack on Israeli Film Makers</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/10/14/761/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of prominent Canadian and world cultural figures last month condemned the Toronto International Film Festival for featuring films from Tel Aviv. Naomi Klein, in support of the condemnation, stated: &#8220;When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival was holding a celebratory “spotlight” on Tel Aviv I felt ashamed of my city of Toronto&#8221;. [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/09/06/failing-women-at-work-unfair-and-unecessary/#comments</comments>
		<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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