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		<title>Foreign Takeovers: Pressure Mounts for Job Protection, Clearer Regs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour, and some corporate voices, say it&#8217;s time to put some muscle on the Investment Canada Act. By: Ben Christopher, 26 January 2012, TheTyee.ca
 View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/01/26/Canadian-Foreign-Takeovers/

It goes something like this: a large multinational corporation saunters across the border, snaps up a Canadian business, and immediately throws a few hundred more of this country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert&#8217;s Report Damns Northern Gateway Pipeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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Veteran energy analyst David Hughes calculates three reasons the project is bad for Canada.
By: By Andrew Nikiforuk, 12 January 2012, TheTyee.ca View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/01/12/HughesReport/



HOW FAST CAN OIL SANDS REALLY GROW?

A slide presentation by geologist David Hughes includes charts showing the wide discrepancy between commonly accepted growth scenarios for the Alberta oil sands, and significantly higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Stifled in Parliament by Conservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Don Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway
Canadian families expect their Members of Parliament to work hard on their behalf. They expect their MPs to debate ideas and to do what’s best for our country.Unfortunately, Stephen Harper has other ideas.
His government has used back-door tactics to completely shut down debate in Parliament a record number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Canada: media pundits vs. reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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ROBERT HACKETT &#8211; CCPA POLICY NOTE

The Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Canada protests seem to be occupying – and perhaps unhinging – the minds of media pundits – at least, those who are mired in the dogma of “free market” fundamentalism. One recent example from CBC Television came in the form of a personal attack on author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incriminating Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe

 
This week, across Canada, experts are speaking out against the massive, cruel Crime Bill that our Conservative government is rushing through Parliament.1 Even conservative Texans are warning Canada not to follow America’s failed path of mandatory sentences and massive prison expansion.2
Now, we need a huge public outcry to stop the bill, and make Canada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NWDLC Municipal Candidates Endorsements- Vote This Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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Burnaby, BC - The New Westminster &#38; District Labour Council today released their list of endorsed candidates for the 2011 Municipal and Board of Education elections taking place on November 19, 2011, across British Columbia.
“Delegates to the Labour Council have endorsed a total of 70 candidates who are seeking election as Mayors, City Councillors and Board of Education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Canada-European Trade Agreement and Why We Should Worry as Harper pushes it through!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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Open Civil Society Declaration on a proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union


We the undersigned have serious reservations about the scope and negotiating process of the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). We demand the following of the Government of Canada, provinces and territories:
 
1. Full transparency: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Conservatives are Worried about a Growing Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a strange world. Senior economist Armine Yalnizyan was commissioned by the National Post to make a case about income inequality for their opinion page.  The piece ran under the headline &#8220;A problem for everyone&#8221;. The overtitle (a quick summary of the story written by the editors) read &#8220;Income inequality isn&#8217;t just unfair &#8212; it threatens the [...]]]></description>
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