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		<title>Referral Redirect Test</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2010/05/19/referral-redirect-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[c.com QA: story
c.com Staging: story
c.com Live: story
Calgary Herald: story
Ed Journal: story
National Post: story
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		<title>Tim Hortons: No coffee for you!</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2010/02/09/tim-hortons-no-coffee-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Star:
Tim Hortons bans man for dissing its decaf
Don&#8217;t like our coffee? Take your business elsewhere.
That&#8217;s Tim Hortons&#8217; advice a day after the story of a New Brunswick man getting slapped with a lifetime ban for complaining about &#8220;bad coffee&#8221; went viral and elicited hundreds of comments online.
FPinfomart offer number 138207291201
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		<title>Chantal Hebert: Elizabeth May most overrated politician of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FPinfomart Offer Number 138207291201
From last night&#8217;s At Issue:
Chantal Hebert: I&#8217;d say the vanishing Elizabeth May. Remember the Green Party, this time last year, Stephane Dion was hinting he might let her in to a coalition cabinet. Now byelections came and went, and the Green Party barely made a dent in all four seats. 
It&#8217;s hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Definition of Neoconservatives: Policy Skeptics</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2009/09/21/definition-of-neoconservative-policy-skeptic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2009/09/21/definition-of-neoconservative-policy-skeptic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Canada, neoconservative is a dirty word, and when used as an accusation, is difficult to refute since most folks can&#8217;t say what it means. In other words,  &#8220;I know it when I see it&#8221;.
The best known definition may be Irving Kristol&#8217;s: &#8220;A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.&#8221;
James Q. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahoy-hoy? 138207291201</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2009/09/18/ahoy-hoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this thing on?
This is just a test post. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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		<title>Ibbitson: &#8220;Dangerously Deluded&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2006/08/11/ibbitson-dangerously-deluded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ibbitson ($) on the war on terror, and Canada&#8217;s role in the Anglosphere:
Our advantage over them lies in our unity. The various Muslim terrorist organizations would probably be fighting each other if they weren&#8217;t fighting us. But Western nations see things the same way. We share our intelligence. We jointly preserve our liberties despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Again, With The Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2006/01/10/again-with-the-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a six-month hiatus, I&#8217;m going to take another swing at blogging.
And no, I&#8217;m not just doing it for the beer.
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		<title>Margaret Wente&#8217;s 7 Things You Can&#8217;t Say In Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2005/06/21/margaret-wente-7-things-you-cant-say-in-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2005/06/21/margaret-wente-7-things-you-cant-say-in-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Wente has thrown down the gauntlet at Reader&#8217;s Digest Canada, with 7 Things You Can&#8217;t Say in Canada, including:

Margaret Atwood writes some really awful books
David Suzuki is bad for the environment
The United States is the greatest force for good the world has ever known

Wente, whose day job is as the token rational columnist for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Rudder on the Airbus falls off, off, off&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2005/03/21/the-rudder-on-the-airbus-falls-off-off-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2005/03/21/the-rudder-on-the-airbus-falls-off-off-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an Air Transat flight from Varadero to Quebec City had to turn back last Sunday, this story appeared at CBC.ca (emphasis added):

Several Air Transat airplanes were temporarily grounded Sunday after the rudder on a plane flying from Cuba to Quebec City nearly fell off.
On Saturday, an Air Transat Airbus 310 flying from Varadero, Cuba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-Mast vs. Half-Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2004/11/16/half-mast-vs-half-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeadvice.ca/2004/11/16/half-mast-vs-half-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mertens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night, my friend Dave chastised me for using the phrase &#8220;Half-Mast&#8221; in a previous post. He claimed it was an error on my part, and that  the correct term is &#8220;Half-Staff&#8221;.
A few minutes on Google later, and it seems that &#8220;half-mast&#8221; is the preferred term in Canada, Great Britain, Australia &#038; New [...]]]></description>
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