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		<title>Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/06/24/electoral-reform-hashtag-fresh-thinking/12955/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Kenney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt DeCourcey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, seconded by Elizabeth May, to allow members of the public access to question the expert witnesses before the committee in real time via email or twitter [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hatred on an Alberta golf course</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/06/20/rachel-notley-and-the-hatred-that-kills/12915/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 07:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years I have been warning that hatred kills. Like it did in Orlando last Sunday. Or like it did in Britain last Thursday. When the gentle, decent Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a another cowardly bigot. And I've also warned that the same poison was spreading in Canada. Where [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Worse than Trudeau&#8217;s elbow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 22:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Frank Moher Yeah, that was a dirty check Trudeau threw at Ruth Ellen Brosseau. It doesn&#8217;t look inadvertent to me. Trudeau wades into the gaggle of NDPers blocking Tory whip Gord Brown as he tries to get back to his seat. He reaches for Brown, has a few words with Mulcair, one of the linebackers, then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mulcair vote: Unfair but essential</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/04/11/the-mulcair-vote-unfair-but-essential/12699/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Frank Moher The NDP&#8217;s cashiering of Tom Mulcair as leader is both deeply unfair and plainly essential, at least for anyone who wants to see the Party remain able to influence public policy, and maybe one day win an election. As has been widely remarked, Mulcair was for four years one of the best opposition leaders Parliament [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strategic voting didn&#8217;t defeat Mulcair. Mulcair did.</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/04/08/the-most-ridiculous-reason-for-not-firing-tom-mulcair-3/12662/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Dias]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Montreal Simon Well as you all know, Tom Mulcair is perched precariously on a narrow plank, over the deep blue sea. With the big question being, will he be standing or swimming on Monday?  But even as he marches or limps towards his destiny, some of the old guard are hobbling out to defend him. And this has [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Tom Mulcair Should Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 21:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Montreal Simon I haven't written anything about the NDP leadership review, because I know some of my NDP friends are still hurting from their disastrous election result. And I didn't want to re-open any wounds. And also because I think Justin Trudeau is the best prime minister I have ever known, so it's not [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stealing the Cons&#8217; best ideas</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/02/22/stealing-cons-ideas/12594/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Alison@Creekside "They're stealing all our best shit," wailed CPC MP Remplestiltskin from her parliamentary selfie twitter account, rattling off all the HarperGov ideas embraced by the Liberals since they formed a majority government in October: Saudi arms deal - check TPP signed - check Return of the F35 bid - check Keystone XL pipeline [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mind your guru, Minister Freeland</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/02/05/mind-your-guru-minister-freeland/12485/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[the editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Alison@Creekside The best part of International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland signing the U.S. corporate rights agreement TPP &#8212; the Trans-Pacific Partnership &#8212; in Aukland, NZ on Wednesday was that it was done here in this gambling casino, and a casino is where the house always wins. In her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Trudeau, the campaign is never over</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2016/02/05/for-trudeau-the-campaign-is-never-over/12543/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[the editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Montreal Simon I thought Justin Trudeau's question and answer session with ten so-called ordinary Canadians the other night on the CBC, was a pretty decent little TV show.Another pleasant sign that our country is starting to look like Canada again, after the muzzled darkness of the Harper years. And I certainly didn't think that it would [...]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A choice between emotion and reason</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2015/11/16/a-choice-between-emotion-and-reason/12467/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[the editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Montreal Simon It seems only too tragic that just 10 days after being sworn in as Prime Minister, after promising to restore our Canadian values, and bring back sunnier days, Justin Trudeau should be hit by the darkness of the Paris massacre. Only too ironic that the son of Pierre should have to choose so soon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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