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	<title>Brian Alkerton</title>
	
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	<description>Writer, Comedian, and Human Being. Seldom In That Order.</description>
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		<title>Thoughts On Quebec’s Student Protests.</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/05/thoughts-on-quebecs-student-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First and foremost: Loi 78 is nuts, won&#8217;t survive court challenges if it comes to that, and is largely unneccessary when the bad stuff a minority of protesters are doing (smashing windows, starting fires, etc.) is already illegal and the cops can arrest people for doing that without any additional authority. However, that doesn&#8217;t change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Old Days</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/04/the-good-old-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a year that was full of upheaval for me, I remember 2009 pretty fondly &#8211; it was the year that Twitter really came into its own for me as a tool to do cool stuff and improve my life. In 8 months in Toronto, I made so many great friends and contacts that I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaking Things Up</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/03/shaking-things-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Fight Club, but when Tyler says &#8220;It&#8217;s only after we&#8217;ve lost everything that we are free to do anything&#8221; I&#8217;m not entirely sure I agree. I get the context &#8211; when you&#8217;ve got nothing to lose, consequences don&#8217;t matter &#8211; but I&#8217;ve been feeling similarly liberated of late, if not from consequences then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Stopped Dreaming</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/03/we-stopped-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspiring words from Dr. Tyson, which make me feel like I could be accomplishing so much more on an otherwise lazy Sunday.]]></description>
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		<title>A Plea For Political Involvement: Make Time</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/01/a-plea-for-political-involvement-make-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianalkerton.com/?p=1619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, to preface this, yes, I am a proud member of Liberal Party of Canada, and I had the pleasure and honour of attending this weekend&#8217;s biennial convention. If those two facts cause you to discount everything else I&#8217;ve got to say, then it&#8217;s your loss because what I have to say in this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2012/01/resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianalkerton.com/?p=1616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[- Write here more often. I used to refrain from posting anything outside the 500-750 word range, but between Facebook and Twitter, I don&#8217;t frame my thoughts on that scale with the frequency I used to. That&#8217;s not a criticism or a complaint, it just is. Expect smaller, more frequent posting in the new year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Ottawa – Addendum</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2011/10/occupy-ottawa-addendum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to expand on my thoughts regarding the protests, so here we go: I think they&#8217;re undermining their movement by hewing too closely to stereotypes people have about protesters being nothing but a bunch of hippies (drum circles, 9/11 conspiracy theories, etc.) and by hewing too closely to the Occupy Wall Street narrative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Less Than One-Tenth Of 1%… For Now</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2011/10/the-less-than-one-tenth-of-1-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Source) Ottawa&#8217;s population is just under 900,000 which is to say that after a little bit of quick arithmetic, today&#8217;s Occupy Ottawa protests might have briefly flirted with attracting 0.05% of the city&#8217;s population. To say that these guys speak for 99% of us might be a bit of a stretch.]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Hungry.</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2011/10/stay-hungry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianalkerton.com/?p=1606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rest In Peace, Steve. This is a story about what happens when you don&#8217;t follow your dreams. I&#8217;ve been web-savvy as long as there&#8217;s been a web. Okay, since Toy Story came out. Thank Steve for that too given his role at Pixar. The first web site I ever visited was www.toystory.com, after a botched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Thought: Dalton McGuinty’s Hands</title>
		<link>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2011/09/quick-thought-dalton-mcguintys-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianalkerton.com/2011/09/quick-thought-dalton-mcguintys-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianalkerton.com/?p=1604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but based on his performance last night, Dalton McGuinty is the first politician I&#8217;ve seen in a long time who seems more excited about the prospects of what he could do for the province if he&#8217;s elected than he is about the prospect of actually being elected. I&#8217;m not suggesting that [...]]]></description>
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