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Douglas Bell critiques the movers and shakers in Canadian politics.
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<title><![CDATA[Meanwhile in Absurdistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The idea that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could receive a fair trial a stone's throw from Ground Zero is, well, absurd]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The good soldier]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After keeping a Princeton audience spellboud, Romeo Dallaire reflects on Canada's Afghan mission]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hang on to your toques]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Expect even more vitriol about Canada&rsquo;s inherent depravities as the U.S. health-care fight moves to the Senate]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why we matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A quiet cosmopolitanism among Canadians living abroad marks our contribution to the world]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The brutal truth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[However he got there, Peter Donolo&rsquo;s job is to improve Ignatieff&rsquo;s staff work so it can&rsquo;t be an excuse for the leader's misfortune]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tortured logic]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Big-wig academic talk on the economy and torture could prove troublesome for Harper and Ignatieff]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:50 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re No. 7! We&rsquo;re No. 7! ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bono reveals that Canada matters somewhat less than it did on account of Obama sucking all the air out of the room]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cheap shots and fish wrap]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a difference between ideology and humour, dear readers]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More like Boris]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ignatieff needs to get on the high-speed train and emulate London's mayor instead of Dion]]></description>
<author>Douglas Bell</author>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Steve and Betty]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rideau Hall runs a sorry second in the national imagination to Buckingham Palace. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Our man and his mission]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Peter Kent heads to Honduras to mediate between the party getting its teeth kicked and the party doing the kicking]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iggy descendant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Leader is having as lousy a week as when Nixon released the 'smoking gun' tape]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 8:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Piano Man]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recent events suggest the Liberals are headed for a Ghostbusters moment]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 8:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Harper principles ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tories now wear as a badge of honour economic programs that in the abstract ideological quarters of their party used to be anathema]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 8:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignatieff observed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dissecting the first-person, clever-clever that passes for insight in a British interview with the Liberal Leader]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 9:03 -0400</pubDate>
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