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<title>Canadian Op-eds | Published News | Vancouver Sun</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:25:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teachers shape the future with capable hands]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:25:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Consider this: You arrive at your office and have about 40 clients waiting for you. Each of your clients has his or her own unique interests and concerns, but all are clamouring for your attention. Some don't even really want to be in your office, and might cause you a lot of trouble. But they're there nonetheless, and you must do your best to satisfy their needs. Indeed, you must satisfy the nee<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Funding programs to help stop smoking is a good investment]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/funding-programs-to-help-stop-smoking-is-a-good-investment/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:25:11 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the last few decades, governments across Canada have developed numerous programs and advertisements directed at helping Canadians to stop smoking. Those programs and advertisements, along with the changes in social values that accompany them, have helped to decrease substantially the percentage of Canadians who smoke.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The economic recovery is too fragile to sustain an 
interest-rate hike]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/the-economic-recovery-is-too-fragile-to-sustain-an-interest-rate-hike/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/the-economic-recovery-is-too-fragile-to-sustain-an-interest-rate-hike/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:25:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Canada faces a flurry of mixed, often conflicting, economic data as it prepares to deliver its latest ruling on the direction of interest rates on Wednesday.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Caregivers also need support in vital role]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/caregivers-also-need-support-in-vital-role/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/caregivers-also-need-support-in-vital-role/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:25:13 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[That slogan, used by the Canadian Caregiver Coalition, aptly reminds us that at some point in our lives, most of us will either become a caregiver for an incapacitated relative or friend or be in need of one.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Greens' legacy is one of split votes, failed dreams]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/greens-legacy-is-one-of-split-votes-failed-dreams/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/greens-legacy-is-one-of-split-votes-failed-dreams/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:25:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May announced after its recent convention that the party's focus in the next federal election will be on electing its first member of Parliament.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mental health law needs to be clarified, not changed]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/mental-health-law-needs-to-be-clarified-not-changed/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/mental-health-law-needs-to-be-clarified-not-changed/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:25:07 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In most situations, a person is free to refuse treatment from a physician even if the physician believes it is in the person's best interest. For the physician to do otherwise would violate the person's autonomy and, indeed, would constitute assault.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why meteorological data matter]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/why-meteorological-data-matter/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/why-meteorological-data-matter/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:25:15 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Canada has trouble measuring how much snow is on the ground, something is seriously wrong with the state of government research.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Housing-first project may finally end plague of homelessness]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/housing-first-project-may-finally-end-plague-of-homelessness/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/housing-first-project-may-finally-end-plague-of-homelessness/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:25:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Reopenings of large hotels, in places such as New York and Las Vegas, are often major media events, attended by many of the cities' movers and shakers. But sometimes, reopenings of less grandiose hotels, in places such as Vancouver, also command significant attention. This is especially true when the hotels can make a significant difference to lives of vulnerable people, and to the city as whole.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bountiful salmon run reminds us we know little about the 
fishery]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/bountiful-salmon-run-reminds-us-we-know-little-about-the-fishery/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/bountiful-salmon-run-reminds-us-we-know-little-about-the-fishery/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:25:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If there is one word that defines the science that underpins the way we manage our salmon fishery, it is "unexpected."<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A street drug for depression]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/a-street-drug-for-depression/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/a-street-drug-for-depression/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:25:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Depression won't kill you but the effects of it might.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Success should bring new scrutiny for James, NDP]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/success-should-bring-new-scrutiny-for-james-ndp/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/success-should-bring-new-scrutiny-for-james-ndp/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:25:11 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Conventional political wisdom holds that opposition parties never defeat governments, governments defeat themselves.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Consumers win as smartphone competition heats up]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/consumers-win-as-smartphone-competition-heats-up/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/consumers-win-as-smartphone-competition-heats-up/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:25:09 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A clever series of commercials portrayed Apple's Macintosh computer as a young, hip, casual guy and the rival Microsoft Windows-driven PC as an older, slightly pudgy man in an ill-fitting suit. The PC man was often flustered and frustrated; the Apple guy always cool, calm and collected.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Weighing the importance of one's appearance in the academic 
world]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/weighing-the-importance-of-ones-appearance-in-the-academic-world/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/weighing-the-importance-of-ones-appearance-in-the-academic-world/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:25:14 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Photographs of Albert Einstein may adorn the dorm walls of many a female college student, but he didn't win any beauty contests. Same with his predecessor Isaac Newton, though those wigs he wore were nothing short of fabulous.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This is your brain on vacation]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/this-is-your-brain-on-vacation/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/this-is-your-brain-on-vacation/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:25:13 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot to convince anyone to decline precious time off during the summer, but evidence is mounting that, far from being a good thing, too much summer might be bad for children.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[American economy struggling]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/american-economy-struggling/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/american-economy-struggling/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:25:11 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This is serious. Very serious. The U.S. Federal Reserve, possibly the most powerful financial institution in the world, is on the lookout for deflation.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When the West leaves Afghanistan, the savagery will stay]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/when-the-west-leaves-afghanistan-the-savagery-will-stay/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/when-the-west-leaves-afghanistan-the-savagery-will-stay/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:25:07 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Death by stoning. That's the Taliban's response to adultery. And for fleeing a forced marriage, you get your nose cut off.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy 100th to a Vancouver institution]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/happy-100th-to-a-vancouver-institution/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/happy-100th-to-a-vancouver-institution/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:25:07 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The year 1910 doesn't stand out like some years in history, but there were some significant developments nonetheless.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservatives must retreat on changes to bawdy-house law]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/conservatives-must-retreat-on-changes-to-bawdy-house-law/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/conservatives-must-retreat-on-changes-to-bawdy-house-law/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:25:07 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While prostitution has never been a particularly safe profession, there is abundant evidence that it is much safer when practised indoors.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: The duty to care]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/pakistan-the-duty-to-care/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/pakistan-the-duty-to-care/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:25:06 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The news out of Pakistan is heartbreaking. Uncounted numbers who have clambered or walked to safety, awaiting rescue, are now dying slowly of starvation, dehydration and water-borne disease.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's everyone's responsibility to prevent forest fires]]></title>
<link>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/its-everyones-responsibility-to-prevent-forest-fires/</link>
<comments>http://oped.ca/Vancouver-Sun/its-everyones-responsibility-to-prevent-forest-fires/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:25:07 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After months of low cloud cover and plenty of rain, we deserve some warm weather and clear skies. And there's no doubt we've had plenty of warm weather this summer. But the skies haven't been all that clear of late, with a haze hanging over us, one that can even cause burning eyes and breathing problems.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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