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	<title>Vanessa Long &#187; women</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: Equality p84</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2011/04/14/random-gpc-policy-of-the-day-equality-p84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Random Green Party Policy of the Day from Vision Green is page 84: &#8220;The Greens will vigorously defend every hard-won victory for women&#8217;s rights and for women to advance forward towards full equality in Canada. Women&#8217;s equality is fundamental to a just society. Among the best ways to break down barriers and advance opportunities [...]]]></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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		<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>Protecting Afghan Women?</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/05/14/protecting-afghan-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched this disturbing video on recent attacks on Afghan schools. These attacks are nothing new, the education of youth, and especially girls, is seen as a threat to theocratic rule. It was accompanied by the words of Afghan human rights activist and government official Ranna Tareen on the violence carried out on prominent [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual assault]]></category>
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		<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>Under a Common Roof &#8211; Social Justice Made Simpler</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/04/21/under-a-common-roof-social-justice-made-simpler/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/04/21/under-a-common-roof-social-justice-made-simpler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newmarket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[York]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The April 11th issue of the Era-Banner had an article about York Region&#8217;s plan for a Common Roof Family Justice Centre where several social justice (victim services) organizations would be brought together in one location to make accessing services simpler. It is inspired by The Family Violence Project of Waterloo Region in Kitchener. Barrie and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t wait to see Harper&#8217;s maternal health plan</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/17/cant-wait-to-see-harpers-maternal-health-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/17/cant-wait-to-see-harpers-maternal-health-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vanessalong.ca/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be one amazingly &#8216;signature&#8217; Conservative plan. No abortion &#8211; deep sigh but okay. But to not even include access to contraception as part of our super-duper G8 ground-breaking plan to improve maternal and infant health? I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining what will be in this plan. Guaranteed access to: Clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/08/international-womens-day-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/03/08/international-womens-day-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Harris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at thelongview.ca I&#8217;ve put up a link to Transforming Power by Judy Rebick. I only found out, far too late, that she is speaking tonight in Toronto on how mobilizing citizen participation in democracy will increase the number of women in government. That would have been great to hear. Instead, here is a link [...]]]></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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		<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>Suddenly, Harper cares about women?!</title>
		<link>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/09/suddenly-harper-cares-about-women/</link>
		<comments>http://vanessalong.ca/2010/02/09/suddenly-harper-cares-about-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; oh! Wait. It&#8217;s just our uterus&#8217; that he cares about. Okay, no change there. A funny thing happened a couple of weeks ago. In his inaugural speech as 2010 President of the G8, Mr. Harper proclaimed that he was very, very concerned about maternal and infant health and that, during his term, he was [...]]]></description>
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