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		<title>A Letter from Steve</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/08/a-letter-from-steve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boat People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Boat Person, Just a short note to let you know we&#8217;re thinking about you at this troubled time in your life. Unfortunately, your tales of brutality at the hands of your own government, of reprisals, summary executions and torture, arbitrary imprisonment and other violations of your most basic human rights are, well, unpleasant.&#160; We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Sea Welcome</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/08/sun-sea-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Queue-jumpers! &#8230; unfair to those who have applied and waited patiently to come to Canada! &#8230; illegals! &#8230; human smuggling! &#8230; why should we have to pay for these people! &#8230; why do we allow these people to come into Canada without following the rules! &#8230; it has to Stop!&#8221; So go some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Censuslessness</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/censuslessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knee-Jerk Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Census]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/?p=1688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Harper government has once again managed to raise a tempest where before there were but ripples.&#160; Having unilaterally decided on a whim, with no consultation with the public or major stakeholders, they will be dropping the mandatory &#8220;long-form&#8221; census because &#8220;People don&#8217;t like it.&#8221;&#160; (&#8230; Like Taxes?) Statisticians, and a host of both private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Champions</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/world-champions/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/world-champions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world needs a new champion of Liberty.&#160; This role was abdicated by the US under the Bush administration.&#160; And, while President Obama has the potential to revive it, even he seems hesitant to fully embrace what must be done. Guantanamo Bay is a case in point.&#160; Scant week goes by without some controversy linked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn and Grow</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/learn-and-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/learn-and-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Call for Public Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juno Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto G20]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 6, 1944, D-Day, roughly 20,000 Canadian troops landed on Juno beach.&#160; Against seasoned, trained, well armed and prepared enemy troops in fortified positions, under heavy fire and at a cost of many lives and wounded, they took the beach and pushed inland.&#160; They, as did so many others, secured Canada&#8217;s commitment to freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Blank Cheques</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/no-blank-cheques/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Detainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto G20]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding my support for an Amnesty International petition for a public inquiry into G20 security, Mary Alice commented in Facebook as follows: This needs more explanation &#8211; Whose freedoms? whose securities?&#160; Right to protest peaceably, yes.&#160; Rights to vandalize, infiltrating legitimate groups?&#160; Individuals guilty by association , or after the fact.&#160; How can police determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International Call for G20 Review</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/amnesty-international-call-for-g20-review/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/amnesty-international-call-for-g20-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Call for Public Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto G20]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have joined my support online to the Amnesty International petition calling for an Independent Review of G20 Security Procedures, with the following personal comments: Canada prides itself as a leader in human rights, and struts its stuff on the world stage as a bastion of freedom.&#160; But the apparent break-down during the G20 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20 Still</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/g20-still/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/g20-still/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Detainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legitimate Protest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toronto G20]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Toronto G20 imbroglio still raging, the argument typically boils down to &#8220;I support the police,&#8221; vs &#8220;I support the protesters&#8221; positions.&#160; The implication is that we must choose one or the other, but not both, and that to support one is to deny any support for the other.&#160; This is a false choice.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20 Divide</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/g20-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/07/g20-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Bloc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Search]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/?p=954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Toronto G20 aftermath the discord continues.&#160; Particularly divisive is the controversy regarding police actions, which divides on two main fronts:&#160; support for police vs support for protesters, and both camps seem to hold themselves mutually opposed and irreconcilable. But these views are not mutually exclusive, and should not be seen as in absolute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aides Decamped</title>
		<link>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/05/aides-decamped/</link>
		<comments>http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/2010/05/aides-decamped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron McKinnon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contempt of Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary Committees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ronmckinnon.ca/discourse/?p=829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parliament is currently investigating allegations of illegal lobbying, as well as interference by ministerial aides in improperly, and possibly illegally, suppressing information that the government finds embarrassing. And, despite a lamentable lack of candour from such aides as have testified, revelations of  impropriety have indeed ensued.&#160;  Finding this a further embarrassment, this week the Harper [...]]]></description>
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