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		<title>Throwing Cold Water On Progress</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/throwing-cold-water-on-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a downer. Lawrence Martin at the venerable old G&#38;B has a great, concise explanation of three major institutional changes that many people want to see in Canada in the coming decade in time for Canada&#8217;s 150th birthday in 2017 : a re-evaluation of our relationship with the monarchy, electoral reform and a green [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=657&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You thought I was crazy? Another Strategic Proposal for NDP-Libs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, my last post suggesting that the Green Party strike a strategic deal with other parties to get their fair share of the votes generated a lot of good discussion.  Most of you answered my final question &#8220;Am I crazy?&#8221; with a decided &#8220;Yes, Mark, you are, now go play.&#8221; Fair enough, I can take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=653&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Green Party Could Make a Difference</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/how-the-green-party-could-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like we&#8217;re not going to have a federal election for at least 5 months now so its time for the parties to pull back and consider strategy.  Clearly that&#8217;s what the Liberals are doing with their recent change of chief of staff.  So I&#8217;d like to suggest a bold change of strategy for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=648&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reckless Talk by Polling &#8216;Experts&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know what they say about polls&#8230;well I don&#8217;t believe they are all lies and statistics about Canadian opinions can be very useful, when considered in a balanced way.  Apparently if you are the head of a polling firm, such as Nik Nanos, however, you are able to infer trends from a very short sequence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=641&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Rex.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Rex Murphy,
I always thought you were intelligent and usually gave you the benefit of the doubt when I disagreed with you, you use such big words you see&#8230; but then you wrote this article about global warming.
Well I&#8217;m done now, you&#8217;ve completely invalidated yourself.  Its all very evocative to compare the environmental movement to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=635&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whew, that was close! I supported the govt for a whole 5 minutes.</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/on-govt-side-for-five-mi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frightening.
Two stories out yesterday about some upcoming policies coming out of Ottawa. The first sounds quite reasonable, they want to create a national regulator for securities.  Given the meltdown of last fall this kind of body might be able to tighten up some of the investment rules and make sure we don&#8217;t have loopholes showing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=627&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tories lift off towards a false majority, is this Democracy?</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/tories-lift-off-towards-a-false-majority-is-this-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what counts for a majority in Canada:
According to EKOS, the Tories now enjoy 40.7 per cent support compared to 25.5 per cent for the Liberals, 14.3 per cent for the NDP, 10.5 per cent for the Green Party and 9.1 per cent for the Bloc.
Two polls last week showed the same upward movement for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=623&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Natural Governing, Triangulation and Safety Party</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-natural-governing-triangulation-and-safety-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like the majority of Canadians, I consider my political views to be centre to centre-left on the &#8216;political spectrum&#8217;.  That&#8217;s why I was excited that the Liberals decisively picked a decisive leader after Stephane Dion imploded last fall. That&#8217;s why I was glad a few weeks ago when that same leader finally stood up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=620&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onward to the Future! Uhm&#8230;who has the map?</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/onward-to-the-future-uhm-who-has-the-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should read this fantastic analysis of  knowledge in the modern world by Peter Nicholson at the globe &#38; mail.
I have several responses and comments to add to it. On losing experts with peripheral intellectual vision (my new favourite phrase):
For now, the just-in-time approach seems to be narrowing peripheral intellectual vision and thus reducing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=582&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t stop the democracy train&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://popthestack.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/you-cant-stop-the-democracy-train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short post to point to you this great article from across the pond on Gordon Brown&#8217;s promise to hold a referendum on electoral reform. As the article points out and all of us in BC know full well, a referendum is not necessarily the best way to get change to happen.  On top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=popthestack.wordpress.com&blog=3503731&post=607&subd=popthestack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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