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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ottawa&#8230; it rhymes with Obama&#8230; sort of&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/ottawa-it-rhymes-with-obama-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beaver Tails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada - U.S. Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mongolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rideau Canal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Winterlude]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, and welcome to beautiful Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the second coldest capital city in the world.
After Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Well, the third coldest really, ever since Kazakhstan moved its capital north a dozen years ago, from balmy Almaty to freezing Astana (you remember that big move, don’t you?).
Of course, some put Ottawa all the way down at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=235&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Conservative (???!!!!) Budget</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-conservative-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Alliance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Economic Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preston Manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Conservative Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reform Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stéphane Dion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best way to put present circumstances in perspective and to figure out what to expect in future is to look back on the past.
With that in mind, I dug out an old report card.
The comments started out well:
“The positives are impressive: he has a brilliant strategic mind, a sound grasp of public policy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=229&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pilgrims</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/political-pilgrims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Chrétien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Flaherty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Inauguration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Toronto friend of mine began putting together her travel plans back in November. Good thing she did. Tickets and hotel rooms are at a premium. If she hadn’t booked early, she may have missed out completely on the chance to take the trip…
Journalist colleagues from across the country have lobbied their bosses for weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=223&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anything can happen in Canadian politics&#8230; who&#8217;da thunk it?</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/anything-can-happen-in-canadian-politics-whoda-thunk-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloc Québecois]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament Hill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Party Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Parties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
So how&#8217;s it going to end?
Will the Conservative government fall and be replaced by a Liberal/NDP coalition propped up by the Bloc Québecois?
Will Stephen Harper manage to prorogue Parliament and live to be Prime Minister for a little while longer?
Will we end up with our fourth election in 4.5 years and our second in three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=218&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking Ass in Post-Partisan Politics</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/kicking-ass-in-post-partisan-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partisan Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Party Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Parties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto Maple Leafs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Kinsella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine used to be a major partisan of a major political party.
Come election time, there were few lawn signs bigger than his. He would tirelessly canvas for his chosen candidate and take it pretty hard if that candidate did not triumph. The ebbs and flows of his party’s fortunes would influence his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=210&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of the Democratic President (on Canadian Conservatives)</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/the-curse-of-the-democratic-president-to-canadian-conservatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Mulroney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All around the United States&#8230; all around the world&#8230; millions of people await the results of tonight&#8217;s historic American election. The anxiety and anticipation levels are palpably apparent even here in Ottawa, where people are talking about little else.
As in every other national capital, officials in Ottawa have been gauging the implications of the anticipated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=203&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stéphane Dion, Joe Clark and John Tory</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/stephane-dion-joe-clark-and-john-tory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bob Rae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Blake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith-based Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Chrétien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Turner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of Dec. 2, 2006, in a wide corridor of Montreal’s Palais des congrès, I bumped into a political lobbyist of my acquaintance.
Both of us were trudging slowly through the middle of a large, loud and excited crowd of people, everyone leaving the main hall of the convention centre and heading out the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=199&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picking through election entrails</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/picking-through-election-entrails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloc Québecois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnic Vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith-based Funding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Duceppe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Volpe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parliament Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prairie Provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Conservative Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quebec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stéphane Dion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose they held an election and nothing happened?
Not too much, anyway.
In September, Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared the 2.5-year-old minority Parliament to be unworkable.
In search of a more workable mandate, he violated his own fixed-election-date legislation to dissolve that Parliament and send Canadians to the polls for the third time in four years.
Five weeks, 300-million-dollars, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=169&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election night cheat sheet for political junkies</title>
		<link>http://echenblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/election-night-cheat-sheet-for-political-junkies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Echenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belinda Stronach]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Cadman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Boudria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Emerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Orchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Boudria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dona Cadman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francoise Boivin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gail Shea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garth Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Lunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Duceppe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Pierre Blackburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josée Verner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Trudeau]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Cannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manitoba]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Election post-mortem here
Will tonight&#8217;s federal election result in more of the same or are we in for a surprise or two? Here&#8217;s a cheat sheet on the tightest local races, which are likely to decide the election. Clip, save, place next to your chips, beer and TV remote, and consult as results pour in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=echenblog.wordpress.com&blog=1610757&post=158&subd=echenblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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