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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; 2007 &#187; October</title>
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		<title>The October B-List</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/31/the-october-b-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;back after a summer hiatus that raged out of control.
The B-List is your monthly media supplement of 7 recommended readings from beyond the Briarpatch.
Get the B-List in your inbox. Subscribe/unsubscribe at http://www.briarpatchmagazine.com 
1. Canada&#8217;s Highway to Hell
The world&#8217;s last (and dirtiest) oil boom is under way in the boreal forests of Alberta. It&#8217;s destroying a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Damage Done: Canada and the coup in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/29/the-damage-done-canada-and-the-coup-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/29/the-damage-done-canada-and-the-coup-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian photographer Darren Ell has published a new online resource about Canada and the 2004 coup d&#8217;√©tat in Haiti on the National FilmBoard of Canada website CitizenShift. The site includes Ell&#8217;s short films and captioned photographs drawn from the work he has done in Haiti in the last 18 months.  The site also features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Proletariat meets the Precariat: Precarity &#038; the labour movement</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter from the Editor
Briarpatch Magazine
November 2007
The good we secure for ourselves
is precarious and uncertain
until it is secured for all of us
and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
Sometimes a term comes along that enables us to name&#8212;to make visible&#8212;our situation, to better understand the social and economic forces that shape our choices, and to connect various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have we already hit peak oil?</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/have-we-already-hit-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/have-we-already-hit-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many readers will already be familiar with the concept of peak oil &#8212; the observation that, over time, oil-producing regions reach a maximum rate of extraction, after which oil production begins to enter a terminal decline. North American oil production peaked in 1985; British oil production peaked in 1999. The question of when global oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building &#8216;The World&#8217;s Most Flexible Workforce&#8217;: The Harper government&#8217;s &#8216;double-doubling&#8217; of the Foreign Worker Program</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/building-the-worlds-most-flexible-workforce-the-harper-governments-double-doubling-of-the-foreign-worker-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karl Flecker
Briarpatch Magazine
November 2007
&#8220;&#8216;Help Wanted&#8217; signs are everywhere. When it starts to affect our ability to go to Tim Hortons and get a double-double, it ceases to be a laughing matter.&#8221;
-Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Since coming to power, the Harper Conservatives have moved aggressively to expand Canada&#8217;s Foreign Worker Program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices from the Front Lines: Three sites of struggle against precarious labour in Canada</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/voices-from-the-front-lines-three-sites-of-struggle-against-precarious-labour-in-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Don Kossick and Rosa Kouri; photos by Don Kossick
Briarpatch Magazine
November 2007

&#8220;The live-in caregiver program is an urgent issue that women in Canada need to look at collectively,&#8221; says Cecilia Diocson, right.
As part of an ongoing project, Making the Links Radio is conducting interviews and producing radio shows focused on immigrant communities in Canada. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade&#8217;s Refugees: Mexico&#8217;s migrant workers at home and abroad</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Martha Jane Robbins; photos by Trevor McKenzie-Smith
Briarpatch Magazine
November 2007
Former farmers driven north in search of work have found that the rules governing the free flow of capital don&#8217;t apply to them&#8211;indeed, that crossing borders has never been more difficult.
In a village called Anagua, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, a young man named Antonio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough to Live On: The case for guaranteed income and the end of the growth economy</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Mulvale
Briarpatch Magazine
November 2007

Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
Precarious work is on the rise in Canada. Although the quantity of jobs has increased, often dramatically, during recent years of economic boom, there has also been a strong tendency for full-time, relatively well-paid jobs with benefits and security of tenure to be replaced by part-time, short-term, insecure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fuel made from food is a dumb idea&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/21/fuel-made-from-food-is-a-dumb-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/21/fuel-made-from-food-is-a-dumb-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Food Policy Research Institute has joined the chorus of groups and individuals speaking out against the biofuel bandwagon.
Read Stephen Leahy&#8217;s Inter Press Service article here.
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		<title>Oil vs. Monks</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/08/oil-vs-monks/</link>
		<comments>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/08/oil-vs-monks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Faruukh Saleem
Daily Times (Pakistan)
October 3, 2007
America is hungry for Iraq&#8217;s oil. Burma is all about oil too. China and India are hungry for Burma&#8217;s oil. America loved the Iraqi dictator for as long as the dictator was in America&#8217;s economic interest. China and India love the Burmese military junta because the junta has promised [...]]]></description>
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