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		<title>Honesty in Canadian politics? What a crazy notion!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seldom come across an article in The Mark that would I consider to be less than stellar in editorial quality, content and analysis. They are more often than not on the &#8220;mark&#8221;. Aand they continue this high standard with an article on &#8220;truth&#8221; in politics penned by Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch. Conacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who the hell is Larry Miller and why is he sending me junkmail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m getting these damn leaflets in the mail. The text attacks Iggy as being pro-raise-taxes and extols the virtues of the ReformCons as being the economic saviours of Canadian families everything. Do I really want this crap to be funded out of the pockets of those same families? Doesn&#8217;t Harper (and ol&#8217; Larry Miller) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper is becoming predictable &#8211; of course he HAS to make everything political!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trashysworld.ca/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Never one to miss a chance to score some political points, Stevie lays the groundwork for blaming the Grits et al if the refugee claimant system isn’t “fixed”. Mr. Harper insisted the visa obligation for Mexicans will remain in place until Canada&#8217;s refugee system is fixed, calling on opposition parties to join his party in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pork barrelling &#8211; deuxième partie &#8211; spas and schools&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/08/07/pork-barrelling-deuxieme-partie-spas-and-schools/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pork-barrelling-deuxieme-partie-spas-and-schools</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some great observations out in the blogosphere about how some of the Harperite&#8217;s crazy cash (aka Economic Stimulus Funding) is being doled out. I wrote a note about this last week with regards to Clement’s refurbishing of public washrooms in Muskoka. One commenter to that post rightly pointed out that it is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The home reno tax credit &#8211; supporting the sturdy, glossy envelope industry since 2009!</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/08/04/the-home-reno-tax-credit-supporting-the-sturdy-glossy-envelope-industry-since-2009/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-home-reno-tax-credit-supporting-the-sturdy-glossy-envelope-industry-since-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trashysworld.ca/?p=1145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is really easy to see what the Harperite’s cornerstone will be for the next election campaign.  Oodles of dollars are being used by the CPC trumpeting their Economic (In) Action Plan. The ship of state is being calmly steered through the economic malaise with your good Captain Stevo at the helm… ably assisted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pork barrel politics in Cottage Country</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/07/31/pork-barrel-politics-in-cottage-country/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pork-barrel-politics-in-cottage-country</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I take a particular interest in the political goings-ons in Parry Sound Muskoka. After all, I grew up there, all of my family (save moi) still call it home and I ran as a candidate there in the &#8217;93 General Election. So I do retain an emotional attachment to the place. A place that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail and Political Haggling – why not?</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/06/15/retail-and-political-haggling-why-not/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=retail-and-political-haggling-why-not</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the political stage Just noticed that Iggy has laid down some conditions that the Harperites will have to meet in order to avoid a no-confidence motion and a summer election. According to Ignatieff, the government must meet the following four conditions: Provide more details about improving the employment insurance system before the House of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the news recently</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/06/12/in-the-news-recently/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-the-news-recently</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possible summer election As much as I&#8217;d like to say that I&#8217;d like to see an election this summer I have to counsel caution&#8230; leadership numbers still too soft, unpredictable and therefore the Grits are vulnerable to the slightest slip-up. Give Iggy the summer. The Harperites will no doubt stumble some more and give the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives will stop at NOTHING to discredit Grits</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/05/28/conservatives-will-stop-at-nothing-to-discredit-grits/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=conservatives-will-stop-at-nothing-to-discredit-grits</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Conservatives try to distort the truth. Lesson #231. I recently blogged about this right-wing site that at times will register right off the ol’ cynicism meter.  But I do enjoy my visits there – if not only for the “wtf” factor than anything else. It is also quite well-written. Although I don’t think the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynical and small-minded in the great white north&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know. I shouldn&#8217;t be giving bandwidth to propagandists like this. But it is the ill-informed and self-serving agents of the Politics of Cynicism that make me wish that there were an election just around the corner&#8230; when we can reduce the ReformCons to a rump in the boondocks of Alberta and rural Canada. [...]]]></description>
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