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		<title>Statement by a Member&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Rodger Cuzner (Cape Breton—Canso, Lib.):       Mr. Speaker, &#8217;twas the week before Christmas and all over the Hill The self-absorbed Tories were imposing their will The stockings in Muskoka were stuffed to the brim But life on first nations remained woefully grim. And at the North Pole, Santa&#8217;s problems abound There was much work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briefing note</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prepared for PM Harper and immediate staff attending APEC meeting in Hawaii Re: November 13 meeting with President Obama. 1. Drawing on experience gained at first bilateral, the PM is reminded that the President does not appreciate being called &#8220;gangsta&#8221;. 2. Related to 1. above, the symbolic colours of the main political parties are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When questions were answered&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before scripted responses in QP. Before &#8220;messaging&#8221;.  Before every utterance from a Minister’s mouth had to be cleared by the PMO, sitting MP&#8217;s actually communicated directly with their constituents and other members of the public. All by themselves. Yes. They did. I’m not making this up. I know that on all sides of the House, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suck it up. You asked for this.</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2011/05/22/suck-it-up-you-asked-for-this/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=suck-it-up-you-asked-for-this</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[10 years and you're out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kinsella&#8217;s column in the Sun today pretty much sums up what I and other like-minded progressives have being saying since May 2. You don&#8217;t like the fact that Harper thumbs his nose at Canadian voters in Newfoundland, Quebec who gave the boot to Smith, Manning and Verner? You don&#8217;t like what Clement is saying about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trashy in Parry Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the very sad and sombre ocassion that brought subunit #2 and I to Parry Sound (and then to Mississauga in a little while), it is nice to see family again. And, in spite of the fact that, with 2 dogs and three cats sharing a roof with me &#8211; and the resultant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Minister Jack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s better than Prime Minister Steve. But so would be PM Eeyore. In my oh-so-humble opinion. Man. I&#8217;m a poli-sci freak having the time of his life! Is it &#8217;88? &#8217;93?? Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario]]></description>
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		<title>Blog of the Week &#8211; ThreeHundredEight.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First, before getting to the regularly scheduled Blog of the Week post, can someone please tell me that this is indeed an early April Fool&#8217;s prank!??? This cannot be serious, can it? Who the hell could conceive of spending $100 million to commemorate a 200 year old war??? OK.  BP dropping. All is good. Serenity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-up to the Frank Graves so-called &#8220;controversy&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2010/04/30/follow-up-to-the-frank-graves-so-called-controversy/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=follow-up-to-the-frank-graves-so-called-controversy</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harperites have scaled up their attacks against the CBC and the remarks made by EKOS President, Frank Graves. “Make no mistake, we will continue to challenge Frank Graves’s credibility as a neutral pollster on party politics,” the Conservative Party says in a memo circulated to MPs and supporters. “The public broadcaster is spending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The upcoming year on the Hill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/12/29/the-upcoming-year-on-the-hill/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-upcoming-year-on-the-hill</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[stephen harper is a robot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A cold winter&#8217;s day here in the nation&#8217;s capital sees many hunkered down in their houses with the furnace cranked and an extra blanket or two. Not so for me as I&#8217;m writing this on my way to work on the 7 am-ish 148. Not many of us on the bus this morning. No big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nik on the Numbers and Harper’s best options</title>
		<link>http://trashysworld.ca/2009/11/16/nik-on-the-numbers-and-harper%e2%80%99s-best-options/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nik-on-the-numbers-and-harper%25e2%2580%2599s-best-options</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative majority]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nik on the Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollling results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As someone in the information collection industry, I tend to look to look at polling numbers with a bit of a critical eye. Sample sizes and distributions, question wording and order and the presence of absence of any group (e.g., political) affiliation always plays on my mind when I see the “latest numbers”. That being [...]]]></description>
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