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		<title>When Political Assault Goes Undercover</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, the web site wikileaks.com was founded to serve as a platform for whistle blowers regarding subjects that are of a &#8220;political, diplomatic, historical or ethical interest&#8220;. But it wasn&#8217;t until April 2010, that the site gained the most attention, when it published a 39-minute unedited video and an 18-minute annotated version of U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK elects first Green MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results are still coming in, but UK Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is now the first Green Party MP in England. The Green Party had 22% of the vote in the 2005 election, and 9% in the 2001 election. One thing that helped the Greens win this was a slight change in ward boundaries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keys to the city on discount</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Winkler, the actor who played &#8220;The Fonz&#8221; on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days has received a Key to the City by Mayor Sam Katz. What the hell is the Mayor thinking?! Normally the Key to the City is given to hometown heroes, say like Cindy Klassen or Clara Hughes who are both from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search for MPs using postal code</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2010/search-for-mps-using-postal-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people over at How&#8217;d They Vote have included a postal code look up in their API. &#8220;How&#8217;d They Vote?&#8221; aims to be a non-partisan website which provides a variety of in-depth information on the operations of the Canadian Parliament, specifically, how our politicians vote and what they&#8217;ve said. We take Hansard and extract information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good, the bad and the down right backwards</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2009/canadian-city-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Macleans magazine issued a bold exposition; assessing our cities. Instead of measuring citizen&#8217;s happiness or measuring young professionals&#8217; choices, the survey &#8211; conducted by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) &#8211; looked at the performance of city services compared to the cost. The magazine explained: For without some sort of yardstick to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Hall Ethics Pass</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2009/city-hall-ethics-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council voted on two motions regarding ethics on Wednesday; both stemming from allegations that Winnipeg&#8217;s Mayor Sam Katz was in conflict during a lease renegotiation deal last September. One motion was from City Councillor Gord Steeves. He wanted to see the city establish an &#8220;Accountability Commissioner&#8221; to review the politicians and city employees; enacting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Toronto settles (again) with protesters</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/city-of-toronto-settles-with-homeless-protesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost ten years ago in a Toronto inner city public park a small group of university students and community members began joining homeless people who resided in the area to hold a &#8220;sleep-in&#8221; protest to highlight the housing crisis in Toronto. Every Friday night for 120 weeks in a public park. On one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times&#8217; Represents</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/new-york-times-represents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has launched a new site tool named Represent that allows New Yorkers to find out who their representative is on all levels and then access news stories relating to those politicians. There’s nothing new in Represent technologically as it&#8217;s simple tagging news stories and categorizing by congressional district but The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/media-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To (some) members of the Mainstream Media, Quoting an anonymous forum poster or a blogger account without a real full name is lazy. If you can&#8217;t make the effort to contact the person writing the message or drafting a petition to get their real name accredited to their action or words, you&#8217;re in the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, the West Wing was based on this</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/yes-the-west-wing-was-based-on-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/yes-the-west-wing-was-based-on-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has watched The West Wing knows that bizarre feeling you felt when you watched any part of the US 2008 Election. You&#8217;ve seen this before. From the moment I saw Obama, I thought of Jimmy Smits and every step of the election this year I&#8217;ve been reminded that Aaron Sorkin is perhaps genius. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special thanks to the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/special-thanks-to-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propelled by Internet, Barack Obama Wins Presidency. &#8217;nuff said. Blog this on Blogger Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Post this to MySpace Share this on Reddit Stumble upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-lection 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/e-lection-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt the American Presidential election is the most historic since perhaps the Kennedy/Nixon race. It&#8217;s the election that will see America&#8217;s first black President or America&#8217;s first female Vice President. Both candidates are Senators and are neither are incumbent to the office they are running for. It&#8217;s also historic because finally the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The big ad buy that worked</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/the-big-ad-buy-that-worked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mere days before the election, US Presidential candidate Barack Obama aired a 30-minute &#8220;informercial&#8221; on the major networks last night (all except ABC because they were holding out) and the ratings outperformed the usual Wednesday night fare drawing 33.5 million viewers according to Nielsen. NBC was the most-viewed and highest-rated network for its presentation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Party voters terrorized</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/liberal-party-voters-terrorized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/liberal-party-voters-terrorized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over 30 incidents of vandalism have been reported by Liberal Party supporters in two separate ridings &#8211; the most concerning being the cutting of their car brake lines. One campaign worker found his brakes didn&#8217;t work after failing to stop at a stop sign and was nearly hit by an oncoming transit bus. So far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Train</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/green-train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May is choo-chooing across Canada with their Green Train. No doubt, the Greens learned their lesson from David Suzuki who was criticized when he made a similar tour across Canada in a diesel bus last year. Of course those same conservative-extremist pundits will still attack those concerned about [...]]]></description>
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