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<title><![CDATA[Obama inspires; Palin connects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[They are, in the way of fate, curiously parallel figures]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy $tar$ in Hollywood]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How can so much be spent for what is, finally, so little?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crucifix out, warming in]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's official &ndash; global warmingism has court-warranted standing as a religion]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't turn up the heat on the West]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By making Western provinces pay for adventures in global warming policy we will be playing with Confederation]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Follow the leader, but which one?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the present moment, the competition between the Conservatives and Liberals is not really about policy]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff should think outside the green box]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following the global-warming herd doesn't show courage &ndash; quite the opposite, in fact]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[McGuinty's smoking Galahads]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ontario government has a healthy case of selective virtue]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A disgusting portrait of an &lsquo;artist']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The category offers no protection or excuse for what Polanski so gruesomely did]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Ignatieff muddles and befuddles us]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Leader is a credentials candidate who is missing a message]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kanye, that Dame has class]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rapper could learn from Vera Lynn, who is topping the UK charts]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pity the parties' foot soldiers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you're just another candidate then you're looking at this impending election with reluctance]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No better than a moose in rut]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are politicians under some sort of DNA-coded imperative to keep springing elections on us?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 18:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No second thoughts in the Senate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[No matter who's in power, the Red Chamber is not the place for autonomous contemplation]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An ordeal that deserves our attention]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What role did our officials play in the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What's the point of a fall election?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tories and the Grits are just timid mirrors of each other]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:42 -0400</pubDate>
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