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	<title>Keeping it Real... &#187; British Columbia</title>
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		<title>How BC Politics Has Changed &#8230; for the Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finance Minister Colin Hansen has demonstrated perfectly, in my view, why so many British Columbians have lost respect for politics and politicians. And I&#8217;m NOT talking about the pros or cons about the HST .. or even the timing of its introduction.
I&#8217;m talking about semantics.
Most of us, in our professional lives, answer questions, when asked,  without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun/Province&#8217;s Disturbing &#8220;Message&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/sunprovinces-disturbing-message/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/sunprovinces-disturbing-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that, to any branch of the news media, the availability of information is critical: whether voluntarily provided;  deliberately revealed; earnestly sought out or inadvertently discovered. 
But what is not so well known is how dependent today&#8217;s media are on FREE information &#8230; interviews granted or questions responded to by ordinary people &#8230; even tragedy victims [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sun/Province: Real Stories or Paid-For Propaganda?</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/sunprovince-real-stories-or-paid-for-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/sunprovince-real-stories-or-paid-for-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you tell the difference between journalism today and prostitution?  Hmmm?
Sorry: it&#8217;s not a joke; there is no punchline; it&#8217;s only a question I&#8217;ve been asking myself since reading the &#8221;major&#8221;  Vancouver  newspapers last weekend.
Saturday Aug. 28 on page A-16 in The Vancouver Sun there were two captivating stories: the first,  topped by a full page headline entitled &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>HST: Where Political Tragedy and Comedy Come Together</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-where-political-tragedy-and-comedy-come-together/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-where-political-tragedy-and-comedy-come-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s actually hard not to laugh!  But really, we should be crying.
Finance Minister Colin Hansen stood before the cameras and told British Columbians he had no idea his own Finance Ministry officials were holding extensive discussions with federal counterparts in Ottawa on the HST in March, 2009 &#8230; a few months before the provincial election.
&#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>HST:  So Where Do Opposition Parties REALLY Stand?</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-so-where-do-opposition-parties-really-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-so-where-do-opposition-parties-really-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BC&#8217;s Liberals are wearing the shame and rejection of BC voters over the HST &#8230; especially the timing and the way it was introduced.  And on Sept. 8th, the legislative committee will at last start dealing with the petition signed by more than 700,000 British Columbians calling for repeal of the hated tax.
I&#8217;m sure there [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>HST: MLAs Must Stop Hiding</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-mlas-must-stop-hiding/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/hst-mlas-must-stop-hiding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To hold a referendum or not to hold a referendum: THAT is the question&#8230;.
Whether it would be nobler to let the people vote &#8230;. or just get on  with it in the legislature?
I say Get On With It!!!
The referendum process is so flawed all it would do is allow another delay of up to a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Electoral Officer&#8217;s Ruling MUST Be Challenged</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/electoral-officers-ruling-must-be-challenged/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/electoral-officers-ruling-must-be-challenged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision by B.C.&#8217;s &#8220;Acting&#8221; Chief Electoral Officer Craig James to stall the anti-HST petition until court cases are dealt with MUST be challenged in court.
I believe he&#8217;s wrong; he made a mistake;  he went far beyond his proper role in validating a petition.
 He has in effect destroyed B.C.&#8217;s democratic  petition legislation, because if his decision is allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>BC Place: Truth a Casualty of Inexperienced Reporters</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/bc-place-truth-casualty-of-inexperienced-reporters/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/bc-place-truth-casualty-of-inexperienced-reporters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good things about young, enthusiastic new reporters is that they work for a lot less pay than senior journalists and they can be overworked, exploited or even abused by their news bosses without much complaining, because of fear or intimidation.
The downside though is that almost none of them have the historical knowledge of most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Campbell AND the Liberals going, going &#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/campbell-and-the-liberals-going-going/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/campbell-and-the-liberals-going-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone had any doubt it is game over for Premier Gordon Campbell, the latest Angus Reid poll spells it out in black and white.  But what&#8217;s worse, are the figures that also show, even with a new leader, the Liberals are heading for an election disaster.
That will be Campbell&#8217;s political legacy, barring a miraculous turnaround.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>BC HST Hits 20% !</title>
		<link>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/bc-hst-hits-20/</link>
		<comments>http://harveyoberfeld.ca/blog/bc-hst-hits-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hoberfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that didn&#8217;t take long!  Remember all those promises BC retailers wouldn&#8217;t use the HST to rip off consumers? And the Premier, the Finance Minister and the business community wouldn&#8217;t lie to us, would they?
 Been to Zellers lately?
I was there today &#8230; and the cashier asked,  BEFORE ringing up the total for my single item, ,  if I would like a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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