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	<title>Halifax Politics dot ca</title>
	
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	<description>The website of Waye Mason, Halifax man about town and opinionated so and so.</description>
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		<title>The ECMA acceptance speech I wish I had given</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/03/08/the-ecma-acceptance-speech-i-wish-i-had-given/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music & Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quite to my surprise, Halifax Pop Explosion won the East Coast Music Award for Event of the year&#8230; Completely unprepared I stumbled through an awful speech, my worst ever I suspect.
Here is what I should have said:
Thank you, this is completely and totally unexpected.

I would like to thank my wife, for putting up with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apology to the former residents and descendants of Africville</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/24/apology-to-the-former-residents-and-descendants-of-africville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Geek]]></category>

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“On behalf of the Halifax Regional Municipality, I apologize to the former Africville residents and their descendants for what they have endured for almost 50 years, ever since the loss of their community that had stood on the shores of Bedford Basin for more than 150 years.
You lost your houses, your church, all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rail debate returns to Halifax</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/22/rail-debate-returns-to-halifax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an opportunity to talk to Tim Outhit, councilor for Bedford, for an hour or so last week.  The conversation was wide ranging, covering topics from passenger rail to community councils to taxes.
What was most exciting was the discussion around rail service in HRM, or even to Truro some day.
Now I know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google fail, &amp; RIAA once again misses the point.</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/16/506/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music & Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a furor, yes, a raging furor, on the internet right now over Blogger’s deletion of some music/mp3 blogs from their service.
For those of you who don’t know, an mp3 blog posts a review of an album AND a song or two as mp3.  Usually, the reputable blogs have permission, which marketing people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Diversity – part 2</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/10/tax-diversity-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halifax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion & Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I talked about how to make sure we have some fairness across the region in my last post. This discussion is all driven by the recent &#8220;tax reform&#8221; debate.   Really, the failed and arguably unfair HRM Tax Reform proposal was not conceived strictly to enrich the wealthy, though it clearly would do so. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Views on tax reform, part 1</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/09/views-on-tax-reform-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/09/views-on-tax-reform-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halifax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion & Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The debate on downtown, the future of Halifax, and taxes (oh taxes) continues on my Facebook and to a lesser degree on this blog.   Ah Facebook, if only you had an API that talked to Wordpress, you would be perfect.
I have said before that I was against the proposed flat tax model of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Stroll</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/08/downtown-stroll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halifax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the #1 was full and my gentlemanly insistence of ladies first resulted in the bus driving away without me on it.
Undaunted, figuring its only –1 today, I walked down Spring Garden and then Barrington, looking up and around to think more about the future of downtown.
I guess the first impression was that we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barrington Street Woes</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/07/barrington-street-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halifax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Carsand is closing, and the owner blamed &#8220;no one shopping dowtown.&#8221;  A thread started on Halifax locals, I posted a response, which I am going to modify slightly and post here.
Well, to me Carsand&#8217;s closing demonstrates four things about the state of downtown Halifax right now:
1 &#8211; Entrepreneurs often need stores that are small.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel wish list</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/06/travel-wish-lis/</link>
		<comments>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/06/travel-wish-lis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://halifaxpolitics.ca/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting to make plans for the next 10 years of our lives:
Marnie:

New York
Japan/Tokyo
Banff (camping/Rockies)
Gaspé
California

Rhett:

Russia
Brazil &#8211; beaches
London, England
Vancouver/Whistler
&#8220;Europe&#8221;

Emma:

London, England
Paris
Hong Kong or Beijing
New York
Beaches, anywhere

Waye:

Norfolk/Va Beach/Charleston
New Orleans to Sugarland
Berlin
Russia
New York

So top hits:
1. New York &#38; London tied for 1st place
2. Russia, Berlin and Paris tied for 2nd (if &#8220;Europe&#8221; can apply to Berlin and Paris)
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		<title>30 Rock on tonight</title>
		<link>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/04/30-rock-on-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://halifaxpolitics.ca/2010/02/04/30-rock-on-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waye Mason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Geek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From last week &#8211; and I am too tired to shorten it  for twitter:
For four years I&#8217;ve had to make do with what passes for men around here, with their untucked shirts, boneless faces, their Stars, both Wars &#38; Trek.
Jack is my hero.
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