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		<title>Privacy has its limits</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/16/privacy-has-its-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NP editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, governments at every level have made a fetish of privacy. For the most part, this has been part of a good-faith effort to protect ordinary Canadians from identity theft, unwanted publicity, and other pitfalls of the information age. Unfortunately, the privacy doctrine is also being used as a fig leaf by cynical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts erode our military</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/cuts-erode-our-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/cuts-erode-our-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter worthington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean made an emotional visit to her birthland of Haiti, where she made a point of praising Canadian soldiers at the town of Leogane who are providing relief and fresh water to some 20,000 Haitians.
As so often happens at natural disasters, soldiers are there first and are effective and compassionate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of personal destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/politics-of-personal-destruction-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/politics-of-personal-destruction-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[l. ian macdonald]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have only to attend the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoons to wonder why it bothers to sit at all. Every party caucus meets Wednesday mornings and by the time the House resumes after lunch, MPs generally behave like unruly kids in a schoolyard. Correction &#8211; schoolyards have adult supervision, the House has only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PM has reason to boast</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/13/pm-has-reason-to-boast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/13/pm-has-reason-to-boast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MICHAEL DEN TANDT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the thing about Prime Minister Stephen Harper: He’s beginning to garner a resume he can be proud of and no one can take away, regardless of what happens from here on.
He’s been in office four years. He’s made mistakes — some whoppers. But he’s also got a few things, some quite big things, right. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in UN Land</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/12/alice-in-un-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/12/alice-in-un-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter foster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, no!’ said the Queen. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.”
“Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the sentence first!’”
“Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple.
“I won’t!” said Alice.
“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
“Who cares for you?” said Alice, (she had grown to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green energy bubbles</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/11/green-energy-bubbles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/11/green-energy-bubbles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terence corcoran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown. If you can’t hear it, you are not alone.
While investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Kill the Avatar bill!’</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/10/%e2%80%98kill-the-avatar-bill%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/10/%e2%80%98kill-the-avatar-bill%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter foster]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Kill the Avatar bill!&#8221; That’s the cry at this week’s annual meeting of the Prospectors &#038; Developers Association of Canada in Toronto. Not quite in those words, mind you, but the private member’s bill in question, C-300, is based on the same lurid anti-capitalist, anti-mining fantasies that provided the psychic substructure for James Cameron’s mega-grossing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dalton in Wonderland?</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/09/dalton-in-wonderland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/09/dalton-in-wonderland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christina blizzard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slap a top hat on his head and Dalton McGuinty could have been a dead ringer for Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s brilliant 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
I thought I’d fallen down a rabbit hole and come face to face with the Mad Hatter during Monday’s throne speech.
To listen to the McGuinty yesterday, you’d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth the price</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/08/worth-the-price/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/08/worth-the-price/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark steyn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that &#8220;now is the hour when we must seize the moment,&#8221; the same moment he&#8217;s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby steps</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/07/baby-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/07/baby-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david warren]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dominion budget tabled this week (or &#8220;federal&#8221; as we now say, in emulation of the Americans) was full of restraint. We have been assured of this by every media source I&#8217;ve seen, and the notion gains additional plausibility from the mild endorsements of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and other worthy, fairly independent monitors. &#8220;Baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Haiti hopeless?</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/06/is-haiti-hopeless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/06/is-haiti-hopeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margaret wente]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who can offer the most help to the desperate children of Haiti? Is it Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Sachs, the World Bank or the UN? Is it the many experts who are calling for a Marshall Plan to “fix” Haiti once and for all, or the donor nations that have pledged billions for the task?
Personally, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUNNY JIM, DEFICIT SLAYER</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/05/sunny-jim-deficit-slayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/05/sunny-jim-deficit-slayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john ivison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Flaherty&#8217;s relentlessly sunny disposition made an early March day feel like July yesterday.
&#8220;Defence spending will continue to grow [but] starting two years from now, it will grow more slowly,&#8221; the Finance Minister told MPs in the House of Commons.
&#8220;This year we will increase foreign aid to another record level,&#8221; he said, in tones as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fed freeze useless</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/04/fed-freeze-useless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/04/fed-freeze-useless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greg weston]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian taxpayers will no doubt applaud the Conservative government’s plan to freeze MPs’ pay and bureaucrats’ budgets as a welcome move towards fiscal sanity.
The measures won’t eliminate the country’s massive deficits, but there is no doubting the popular political appeal of a government austerity program that starts with politicians and federal cheque-writers.
The unexpected Conservative plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The thing&#8217; about innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/03/%e2%80%98the-thing-about-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/03/%e2%80%98the-thing-about-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preston manning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Innovation – defined as new and better ways of doing valued things – is likely to be heavily stressed in this week&#8217;s federal budget. It is the key to improving the performance of Canada&#8217;s economy.
And what are the valued things that Canada needs to find new and better ways of doing? They include:
- The productive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hockey fan-in-chief</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/02/hockey-fan-in-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/02/hockey-fan-in-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kelly mcparland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=11290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It must have been aggravating for Harper-haters the way the guy kept turning up in Vancouver, every time there was a limelight to hog.
He seems to have spent the entire closing weekend zeroing in on events in which Canada had a chance at a medal, securing a spot in the stands where the camera would [...]]]></description>
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