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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>Random GPC Policy of the Day: Animal Welfare</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/22/random-gpc-policy-of-the-day-animal-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/22/random-gpc-policy-of-the-day-animal-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Random Green Party Policy of the Day from Vision Green is page 63: &#8220;While everyone is against cruelty to animals, factory farming has been allowed to create systematic and routine cruelty to livestock production. Chickens are packed tightly in cages their whole lives, cattle crowd in feedlots, and pigs are kept indoors in cages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random GPC Policy of the Day: Expanding Ecotourism</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/19/random-gpc-policy-of-the-day-expanding-ecotourism/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/19/random-gpc-policy-of-the-day-expanding-ecotourism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Random Green Party Policy of the Day from Vision Green is page 31: &#8220;The tourism sector in Canada is unique in that it makes a significant contribution to every region&#8217;s cultural and economic well-being. It goes beyond creating jobs and foreign exchange revenue. It enables Canadians to explore our land and helps knit our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper Government More Important than Democracy</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/03/17/harper-government-more-important-than-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/03/17/harper-government-more-important-than-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s statement by PM Harper that being found in contempt of Parliament multiple times and being charged with election fraud are merely &#8216;distractions&#8217; is a clear sign of the lack of respect he has for Canadian democratic institutions. Make no mistake, these systems are in place as safeguards against abuses of power by those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockwell Day and the Crime Rate</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/08/03/stockwell-day-and-the-crime-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/08/03/stockwell-day-and-the-crime-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stockwell Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few thoughts: 1) This video is funny. It&#8217;s fun to make fun of our Conservatives who favour ideology over data. And Stockwell Day is a prime target. 2) Yes, crime rates per 1000 are higher than they were in the 60s. You can see it in the Corrections Canada article I link in #5. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy World Water Day &#8211; Water Bottle-Free!</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/22/happy-world-water-day-water-bottle-free/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/22/happy-world-water-day-water-bottle-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[March 22nd is World Water Day and it seems like an excellent time to muse over the current state of our water resources. Canada is so truly blessed with abundant fresh water and some of the healthiest tap water in the world and perhaps that is why we have been able to keep our per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now *that* is some quick spin</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/11/now-that-is-some-quick-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/11/now-that-is-some-quick-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was so fast I had to go back and read it again. On Tuesday during Question Period, Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe and PM Stephen Harper had a little exchange about oil and gas companies that caught my eye while reading the Hansard. (Yup, I&#8217;m totally poli-geeking out.) Here is the exchange under Oral Questions: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the women?</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/05/170/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/05/170/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On his watch, the proportion of women on the government benches has fallen to 11 per cent, from 25 per cent under Paul Martin and 23 per cent under Jean Chrétien.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know that. How interesting. And distressing. From this article by Carol Goar in the Star discussing Minister Guergis&#8217; less than inspiring performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you do to One, you do to All</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/02/what-you-do-to-one-you-do-to-all/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/02/what-you-do-to-one-you-do-to-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/02/what-you-do-to-one-you-do-to-all/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just begun a new blog, The Long View, to indulge my musings on the various books that I read my way through. I figure it gives me some justification to read as much as I do and buy as many books as I do. One of the books I&#8217;m reading right now is Tomorrow&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Aboriginal Women and Missing Federal Funding</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/15/missing-aboriginal-women-and-missing-federal-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/15/missing-aboriginal-women-and-missing-federal-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m simply passing this information along from the Facebook group, Proud to be a Member of That &#8220;Left-Wing Fringe Group&#8221; Called Women,* with the fervent hope that you will take action and write to your MPs, Minister Guergis and Mr. Harper. Our country has a very poor record when it comes to the treatment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If democracy doesn&#8217;t function, it isn&#8217;t the fault of politicians</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/14/if-democracy-doesnt-function-it-isnt-the-fault-of-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/14/if-democracy-doesnt-function-it-isnt-the-fault-of-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Letter number 2 in what will most likely be a series of Letters to the Editor of the Era-Banner that I am not allowed to send because I am a declared candidate for an election that will happen sometime in the future. I wish I had realized that when I declared for the Green Party [...]]]></description>
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