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	<title>Excerptcize</title>
	
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	<description>An exercise towards sanity.</description>
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		<title>Tough On Crime Stance Continues Apace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Federal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graham James]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the Prime Ministers Office has been engaging in some populist pandering as part of the ongoing Conservative  electoral tactic of &#8216;getting tough on crime&#8217;.  Last month the hubbub was over reports that convicted child killer Clifford Olson has been receiving his federal pension while he continues to serve his life sentence. This week the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Affordable Care Act: What’s In It For Me? (Canadian Edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I noted some ways that healthcare reform in the States could adversely effect Canada. While that possibility is there, the potential to benefit Canada, indirectly, is there as well. Reform in the US takes a two-pronged approach; extending coverage, which has received the bulk of attention abroad for it&#8217;s moral implications, and controlling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impending Brain Drain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Refrom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amidst my general happiness for our American friends in joining the rest of the western world in providing access to health insurance for all of it&#8217;s citizens, there are a few aspects of this story concerning Canada that I want to take a look at. Yesterday I heard from a few people that while they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic Torch Relay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paralympics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Going on right now (it&#8217;s 8:09pm PST) is the Paralympic Torch Relay. In fact, it&#8217;s passing right beneath my window! And it will be back in about half an hour! This torch run is somewhat different than the Olympic relay, but it is just as moving and heartwarming, if not more so. This flame was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Budget Week!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BC Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BC Budget response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Hansen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvey Enchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sinclair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a big week from a political standpoint; Parliament reconvened with a Speech from the Throne on Wednesday and Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled his governments latest federal budget on Thursday. Before taking a look through the federal budget, I would like to take some time to examine the BC Provincial Budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Legacies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Moscato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transportation policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cauldron in Coal Harbour has been extinguished, the Olympic flag has been lowered and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games have ended. That means  two things; it&#8217;s time for me to start doing some blogging again, and some of those posts will be in reference or reaction to all the articles and editorials now asking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Forward, Looking Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Furlong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mens hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic Cauldron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[VPD]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is certainly a big day for Canada at these games as the Womens hockey team will go for gold later this afternoon. Womens curling semifinals have just finished, the men will play later today, three Canadian men will jump in the aerials final tonight and Joanie Rochette will skate in the final flight in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Towards The Big Hockey Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BC Liquor Control and Licensing Branch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.excerptcize.com/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a newer resident of Vancouver, and was only 10 years old when the Vancouver Canucks lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in &#8217;94 and rioting erupted throughout the streets. I don&#8217;t have any direct memories of that event, but it is easy to feel the remembrance of that shameful incident this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Britain: Your Gold Medal Is On The Way (Delivered)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anja Huber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerstin Szymkowiak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martins Dukurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Hollingsworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skeleton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With one run remaining in the womens skeleton, Great Britain&#8217;s Amy Williams is ahead of Canada&#8217;s Melissa Hollingsworth by 0.54 seconds. This is an extremely large lead in a gravity sport such as the skeleton. I&#8217;m hoping that if Williams is able to hold on for the gold, the British press can stop taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There’s Gold In Them There Hills!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandre Bilodeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Begg-Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold medal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Kearney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Heil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of Canadians (myself included) were predicting that the gold medal drought on home soil would end on the first full day of competition by Jennifer Heil in womens freestyle skiing competition. That was not to be, as the American skier Hannah Kearney was just that much better, edging Jen out for the gold. [...]]]></description>
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