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		<title>Expensive Solar from Africa?</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/654</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters has an interesting story about a project to put solar panels in North Africa, with power lines to transmit this electric to Europe.  The story states: The European Union is backing projects to turn the plentiful sunlight in the Sahara desert into electricity for power-hungry Europe, a scheme it hopes will help meet its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignatieff decides to give up on Alberta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Michael Ignatieff has decided to give up on Alberta when it comes to elections. He is taking a stand against oil tankers of the BC coast, proposing a ban on such tankers.    The Liberals clarified: Ms. Murray indicated the Liberals are against large supertankers and not the many other ships that sail B.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaherty is wrong on CPP</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/641</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Flaherty, the Canadian federal finance minister, has posited in a letter to his Ontario counterpart, that perhaps the premiums that all Canadian workers (and their employers) pay should be increased to increase the amount of money Canadians are saving for retirement. This is a very bad idea. First, increasing payroll taxes is a known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t work in this province&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/636</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another example of interprovincial trade restrictions that exist for no reason other than to prevent competition and create work for government bureaucrats. Contemporary Security Canada, which also provided private security for the Vancouver Olympic Games, was selected by the RCMP to provide approximately 1,100 private security guards to screen pedestrians throughout the summits in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada must encourage innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/631</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report in the Economist shows that Canada is not doing enough to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation: Why does Canada not have lots of &#8220;new firms&#8221; patenting new ideas?  Norway and the Netherlands are both smaller than Canada, so I would hope Canada was at least in the same ballpark as Germany and France&#8230; Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-war period a capitalism golden age?</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/628</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 03:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write a piece refuting a piece in the National Post today (reprinted from the New Republic), but tonight when I finally had the time I discover that the Post&#8217;s own Peter Foster beat me to it. One other point I&#8217;d like to make that Foster didn&#8217;t cover had to do with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More action required to fix Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/626</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the WSJ the recent daily trend in the stock, bond and currency markets is taken as evidence that confidence in the days-old European bailout and austerity plans is slipping. First, a few days is hardly enough evidence. But second- what do they propose. The real problem is that leaders in Europe need to admit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The big blow ups?</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/621</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Wente, in the Globe and Mail this week, writes that we live in an era of big &#8220;blow ups&#8221; that cannot be stopped. The problem, as I see it, is not that Wente&#8217;s smartest people in the world have no idea how to stop it.  It is a combination of: People who think they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Tories fail again on free trade</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/619</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, there was a report in the Winnipeg Free Press, quoting the Minister of State for Agriculture, Jean-Pierre Blackburn: &#8220;There is a need for new markets for the food sector like any other sector,&#8221; he told The Canadian Press. &#8220;But at the same time we know some specific aspects have to be protected.&#8221; He said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat local means live like rural Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/617</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good post on Authenticity Hoax regarding the &#8220;local food&#8221; movement: For all the revived fascination with a &#8220;local&#8221; economy, you don&#8217;t hear a lot of people pining for the return of the local abbatoir&#8230; (From Foreign Policy): Influential food writers, advocates, and celebrity restaurant owners are repeating the mantra that &#8220;sustainable food&#8221; in the [...]]]></description>
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