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<title><![CDATA[It's only been a decade, but the conservative way is redefining us]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The celebrated advent of Barack Obama makes Canada's trend line look all the more remarkable]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All it took was Gorbachev and glasnost]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom suggests the Soviets had little choice, but they did]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New stages of Canadian nationhood? Forget it]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With our 150th approaching, we're due for something audacious]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enter Peter Donolo, a Chrétien guy to the rescue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[He was and is highly attuned to the big thing in politics &ndash; imaging]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In partisanship, Harper is a chip off the old Chrétien]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives pledged a new era of transparency in campaigning for office]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada used to be the one with the global conscience]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Harper government has shown little interest in the disarmament file]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Take heart, leaders &ndash; the first year's always a killer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ignatieff need only check the history books for a list of freshman follies]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How &lsquo;Iffy' and the Liberals dropped the ball]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff hasn't been able to figure out the kind of leader he wants to be]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[On many vital issues, the NDP have been on the mark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Which leader, now vindicated, was denounced as Taliban Jack?]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Harper government flunks the Reagan litmus test]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[But the winner of the spin game? The PM, again]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bloc paradox]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Never beaten at the polls and never farther from its cardinal ambition, the party is a victim of its own success]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Ignatieff's bid to stake out higher ground work?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If fleshed out properly, the message of a &lsquo;big Canada' may strike a chord with voters]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why isn't Ignatieff courting Obama?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As opposition leaders before him realized, this is too big an opportunity to miss]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:50 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slow-speed Liberals boarding high-speed train]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Has Michael Ignatieff found a platform?]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The resurgence of the Red Tory brand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Migration to the moderate middle denotes a triumph of the traditional Tory way]]></description>
<author>Lawrence Martin</author>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:59 -0400</pubDate>
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