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		<title>Goodbye 2011 and friends</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2012/01/29/goodbye-2011-and-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common sense lobotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary geekdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RegAlcock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was a difficult year full of loss for many of us at ForSerious. Following the recent LPC biennial (yes, it&#8217;s true, sometimes political chicks get down with partisanship), one loss is particularly palpable &#8211; that of a good friend and political mentor, Reg Alcock. Outside of giving the best hugs IN THE WORLD, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=528&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Slut-pocalypse is Upon Us</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2011/08/05/the-slut-pocalypse-is-upon-us/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2011/08/05/the-slut-pocalypse-is-upon-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After so many years of preparing for zombies, it seems the conservative, basement establishment has a new and much realer fear &#8211; the sluts. For those of you who do not know the background on the Slutwalk &#8211; a series of demonstrations that started in Toronto but are now held all over the world to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=503&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Hillary, We&#8217;re Crazy. Love, Some U.S. Senators.</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/12/03/493/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/12/03/493/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zoë</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common sense lobotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotter than JTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missed memos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money well spent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[She said, he said]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.A. is A-OK!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world is not fair. I know this. You know this. Hillary Clinton knows this. Taylor Swift knows this. Even all entities of NKOTBSB know this. Who does not? It appears that certain members in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, namely leading Republican members, do not. Before we get into the issue of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=493&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade Negotiations:  Don&#8217;t Call It a Comeback</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/10/25/free-trade-negotiations-dont-call-it-a-comeback/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/10/25/free-trade-negotiations-dont-call-it-a-comeback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forserious.ca/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t have known it, what with the lack of coverage, but last week, the fifth round of negotiations on the proposed Canada-EU free trade agreement kicked off in Ottawa. For something that could mean so much to so many Canadians, there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of mainstream discussion about this important proposal. The Comprehensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=485&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Money, money, money, money...MAANNNAAYYYY</media:title>
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		<title>Sex work makes for strange bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/10/07/sex-work-makes-for-strange-bedfellows/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/10/07/sex-work-makes-for-strange-bedfellows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; It’s fitting that the week British Columbia appoints the head of its Pickton Inquiry, a Superior Court judge in Ontario strikes down sex work laws. Both are reflective of a longstanding, simmering debate that may finally be boiling over to the surface of Canadian politics. It’s about time. Canada is one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=477&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incept this.</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/07/25/incept-this/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/07/25/incept-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common sense lobotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ohmygoshyouhavetobekidding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Fail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forserious.ca/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Movie reviewers need to check themselves before they wreck themselves, especially when reviewing a movie that contains both explosions and non-monosyllabic dialogue. It forces them out of the comfort zone of &#8220;A thrill ride!&#8221; and into a dangerous area of film commentary called &#8220;independent thought.&#8221; Now I&#8217;m not saying that all reviewers whipped themselves into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=466&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Longform Census: Our Generation&#8217;s Avro Arrow</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/07/08/the-longform-census-our-generations-avro-arrow/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/07/08/the-longform-census-our-generations-avro-arrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forserious.ca/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Though you&#8217;ve never seen it in one of the Canadian Heritage Moments, Statscan is the world leader in data collection, and the Canadian Census, specifically, is the gold standard in census-taking. Canada perfected the census, and statisticians in every country around the world have modeled theirs after ours. It may be a bit geeky for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=446&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Cancellation of the avro arrow program: one of our nation&#039;s biggest regrets</media:title>
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		<title>G20, Moderates and Mobile Technology: A Recipe for Democracy</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/29/g20-moderates-and-mobile-technology-a-recipe-for-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/29/g20-moderates-and-mobile-technology-a-recipe-for-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, the downtown Toronto march for civil liberties continues. But my feet are sore and I’d rather type. I was interviewed for a current events show on a New Zealand radio station last night to discuss the G20 protests. I could easily answer all questions, save one. I could explain what the demonstrations were about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=416&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Spill Time Machine</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/28/that-was-then-this-is-then/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/28/that-was-then-this-is-then/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zoë</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I quit Earth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Worst idea... ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deja vu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forserious.ca/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That was then, this is then.&#8221; There is little more I can say that will beat the prowess with which Rachel Maddow shows how modern-day innovation and technology has helped us deal with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Yep. True story. If this doesn&#8217;t inspire a &#8220;Hmm-maybs-we-should-switch-to-ocean-wind-farms&#8221; reaction, I don&#8217;t know what will. (Besides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=409&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of men-loving and Tony Clement</title>
		<link>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/16/of-men-loving-and-tony-clement/</link>
		<comments>http://forserious.ca/2010/06/16/of-men-loving-and-tony-clement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what has now widely become known as the brain-cramp heard round the world, not one of the government&#8217;s 19 Canada Excellence Research Chairs is a woman. It&#8217;s even worse than it sounds because, of the 40 scientists short-listed for the award, not one is a woman. Background, on the colossal screw-up is here, here, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forserious.ca&amp;blog=8963163&amp;post=393&amp;subd=jsbond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The competency venn diagram intersects at only one point: Tony Clement</media:title>
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