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	<title>Vanessa Long &#187; Canada</title>
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	<description>Your Future Green MP in Newmarket-Aurora</description>
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		<title>This Campaign&#8217;s Most Important Issue: Our Democracy</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/06/this-campaigns-most-important-issue-our-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/06/this-campaigns-most-important-issue-our-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Conservatives beat the drum on the economy being job #1, they are whittling away at the institutions that make Canada a fully-functioning democracy. Before you vote, I ask you to read this article by Lawrence Martin on the treatment of Canadians by Conservatives&#8230; while they were in government and now out on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil, Resiliency and Obfuscation</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/01/12/peak-oil-resiliency-and-obfuscation/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/01/12/peak-oil-resiliency-and-obfuscation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are already facing the largest income gap in Canada since 1929. The very richest among us, we're talking the top 10%, continue to get richer, at accelerating rates. But the normal people like you and me, we're slipping. Our <em>real</em> wages, those that account for inflation, have not increased since the early 80s.]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of a Superpower</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/10/13/the-decline-of-a-superpower/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/10/13/the-decline-of-a-superpower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flaherty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transition Town]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I desperately hope I'm wrong but, if I'm not, there are grim days ahead if we do not change our economic ways, begin to wean ourselves from fossil fuels, and re-localize our economies.]]></description>
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		<title>My Plumber and Politics</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/07/14/my-plumber-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/07/14/my-plumber-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hst]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was up in Barrie this morning having a leaky pipe replaced and my plumber (who is fabulous!) and we got to talking about politics &#8211; specifically the HST and the effect it will have on Ontario&#8217;s economy (he didn&#8217;t think it would be good). I let slip that I was the nominated GPC candidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Charter rights were those?</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/29/what-charter-rights-were-those/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/29/what-charter-rights-were-those/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[if you are exercising your FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM (Sections 2c and 2d) to freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of association do the police have the right to search your belongings and/or person, or haul you away and throw you in a detention centre?]]></description>
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		<title>Reverence and the G20/G8 Summits</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/29/reverence-and-the-g20g8-summits/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/29/reverence-and-the-g20g8-summits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend has added more strength to my belief that voting Liberal or Conservative doesn't make a bit of difference - they both care little about democracy.]]></description>
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		<title>Reverence and Political Discourse</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/22/reverence-and-political-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/06/22/reverence-and-political-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One would not feel reverence for the Canadian Parliament because it is an institution created by humans but one could feel reverence for the ideals of discourse, unity, truth, harmony, democracy, and freedom. ]]></description>
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		<title>Utopic Family Planning?</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/20/utopic-family-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/20/utopic-family-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Or is it possible for family planning/crisis services to step beyond their own political positions and empower the young women who come to them to make the choice that is best for themselves?]]></description>
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		<title>Why would we go back to &#8216;rape&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/13/why-would-we-go-back-to-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/13/why-would-we-go-back-to-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Toews admitted that there may be issues with the change but brushed them aside, saying, "I understand the desire not to victimize women again in the court system, but that is something that may have to be looked at in the future" (Tibbett).]]></description>
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		<title>The Circles of Responsibility from the BP Disaster</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/12/the-circles-of-responsibility-from-the-bp-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/12/the-circles-of-responsibility-from-the-bp-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A democracy is not something that will sustain itself against the onslaught of private interests and vice. A democracy cannot just be a hobby, and certainly not something you only have to look at once every four years.]]></description>
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