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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; 2005 &#187; December</title>
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	<description>Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news &#38; views.</description>
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		<title>New NFU study claims record corporate profits</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/21/new-nfu-study-claims-record-corporate-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday December 7, 2005
Western Producer
By Adrian Ewins
Saskatoon newsroom 
While farmers struggle to break even on their returns from the market, agribusiness corporations are reaping record profits, according to a new study by the National Farmers Union.
The NFU analyzed the 2004 financial performance of 75 corporations involved in every aspect of the agriculture and food business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs a tax cut, anyway?</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/19/who-needs-a-tax-cut-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Stanford
Facts from the Fringe
The Liberals were long criticized for padding their budget forecasts, to disguise the true extent of Ottawa
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		<title>Nuclear conference unbalanced</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/19/nuclear-conference-unbalanced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Column # 549
Paul Beingessner
In mid-January, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, Saskatchewan Association of Urban Municipalities and the University of Regina will be hosting a conference to examine the nuclear industry and the potential for further development of this industry in Saskatchewan. The press release promoting the conference attributes the following description to SARM president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia&#8217;s election</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/18/bolivias-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For the latest news and analysis on Bolivia's presidential election, where the leftist MAS (Movement Towards Socialism), led by indigenous coca farmer Evo Morales, leads in the polls, check out the Democracy Centre's Blog from Bolivia.]
Bolivia&#8217;s hero vows to break US shackles
On the eve of polls that could give South America its first indigenous head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Volunteer Recruitment Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/16/the-volunteer-recruitment-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a passion for proofreading? Can you do website updates in your sleep? Are you happiest when you&#8217;re dragging your tongue across an envelope? Do visions of mailing address labels dance in your head at night? Would nothing please you more than helping to plan a successful fundraiser?
And &#8212; most important &#8212; are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Greens Aren&#8217;t Very Green</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/16/why-the-greens-arent-very-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal party is short on solid policies and democracy.

By Murray Dobbin
December 16, 2005
TheTyee.ca
Voting Green? Not so much.

If the polls are accurate about 4 percent of Canadians, possibly more, will vote for the Green Party in this election. (Last time around it was 4.3 percent, a historic high). Exactly who votes Green and for what reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The war on medicare</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/10/the-war-on-medicare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;There&#8217;s a war out there and we have to win,&#8217; says Sally Pipes, the head of San Francisco&#8217;s Pacific Research Institute and an alumna of Canada&#8217;s Fraser Institute, another right-wing think-tank.&#8221;
Advocates of two-tier health care prepare to take on medicare, confident that now they can win, Thomas Walkom reports

The Toronto Star     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Peacemakers and the Failure of the Left</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/10/christian-peacemakers-and-the-failure-of-the-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark A. LeVine, History News Network, 7 December 2005
 Imagine if Sunni insurgents decided to face down the greatest power on earth with a human chain of non-violent resistance. Or if Hamas threw human shields rather than human bombs at Israel.
This is the kind of movement that the four members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN kills 15 in Haiti raids this week &#8212; Canada&#8217;s support unchanged</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/10/un-kills-15-in-haiti-raids-this-week-canadas-support-unchanged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lyn Duff
San Francisco Bay View

At least 15 residents were killed and dozens wounded by United Nations troops during incursions in the zone of Cit
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		<title>The Martin Reign: Act I, Scene 2</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2005/12/10/the-martin-reign-act-i-scene-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherein the king entices his enemies into the Valley of Unwanted Elections and springs a most vicious Liberal ambush&#8230;

by John Conway
prairie dog
Paul Martin set the trap, and Harper and Layton sprung it on themselves.  (Duceppe doesn&#8217;t really care very much,  since he is set to sweep Quebec no matter when the election occurs.) [...]]]></description>
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