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	<title>Comments on: Canada&#039;s government muzzles scientists, stonewalls press queries about health, environment and&#160;climate</title>
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		<title>By: Ryan Lenethen</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1350725</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenethen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is from a government that has a &quot;Minister of Science&quot; who also happens to be a Creationist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Goodyear

He was also a university dropout, who later attended Chiropractic school. He believes the Earth was created 5,000 ago by God, and doesn&#039;t really believe in Evolution.

What do you really expect.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is from a government that has a &#8220;Minister of Science&#8221; who also happens to be a Creationist.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Goodyear" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Goodyear</a></p>
<p>He was also a university dropout, who later attended Chiropractic school. He believes the Earth was created 5,000 ago by God, and doesn&#8217;t really believe in Evolution.</p>
<p>What do you really expect.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlie B</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349998</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlie B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &lt;i&gt;purpose&lt;/i&gt; of modern governments is to prevent the dissemination of information that might be harmful to large corporations. 

The purpose &lt;i&gt;used&lt;/i&gt; to be to build roads, provide for the common defense, etc.  but all that&#039;s either unnecessary or privatized these days.

You can&#039;t blame government for wanting to keep busy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <i>purpose</i> of modern governments is to prevent the dissemination of information that might be harmful to large corporations. </p>
<p>The purpose <i>used</i> to be to build roads, provide for the common defense, etc.  but all that&#8217;s either unnecessary or privatized these days.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t blame government for wanting to keep busy!</p>
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		<title>By: scav</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349760</link>
		<dc:creator>scav</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wait is this a law or just a &quot;policy&quot;? Is it actually in the employment contracts of government-funded researchers? Because if not, fuck the policy. And any time you get hassle for releasing the facts, Streisand the bastards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait is this a law or just a &#8220;policy&#8221;? Is it actually in the employment contracts of government-funded researchers? Because if not, fuck the policy. And any time you get hassle for releasing the facts, Streisand the bastards.</p>
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		<title>By: Gordon Stark</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349751</link>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Stark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Ashton, by your comment I discern you view me as a Liberal, and what was verified by The Crown during it&#039;s Inquiry in 2009 as theory, rather than verified fact, in Canada&#039;s Strategic Defense Initiative.   

I also note that, without evidence to support your conspiracy theory concerning me, your derive what you call your &quot;knowledge&quot;, which is incorrect in the truth.  While I shall not presume you are a Conservative, nor that you are a conspiracy theorist, as an internationally designated judge, I can only make discernments of knowledge based upon that evidence which is verified, and I have verified that you are spreading conspiracy theories  about what you think I do, where I have such easily verifiable facts to share with others concerned about the proceedings unfolding in Canada since America refused to repent of their assault on my file in the continuing international war.

I suspect you may be one who is partisan, and your comment seems intent to portray me as being such, without regard to the truth or libel laws, in order to cause that others disregard my speaking, by your unprovoked partisan slander.  

I get that a lot when there are elections going on, so whatever.

Cheers!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Ashton, by your comment I discern you view me as a Liberal, and what was verified by The Crown during it&#8217;s Inquiry in 2009 as theory, rather than verified fact, in Canada&#8217;s Strategic Defense Initiative.   </p>
<p>I also note that, without evidence to support your conspiracy theory concerning me, your derive what you call your &#8220;knowledge&#8221;, which is incorrect in the truth.  While I shall not presume you are a Conservative, nor that you are a conspiracy theorist, as an internationally designated judge, I can only make discernments of knowledge based upon that evidence which is verified, and I have verified that you are spreading conspiracy theories  about what you think I do, where I have such easily verifiable facts to share with others concerned about the proceedings unfolding in Canada since America refused to repent of their assault on my file in the continuing international war.</p>
<p>I suspect you may be one who is partisan, and your comment seems intent to portray me as being such, without regard to the truth or libel laws, in order to cause that others disregard my speaking, by your unprovoked partisan slander.  </p>
<p>I get that a lot when there are elections going on, so whatever.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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		<title>By: Gulliver</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349736</link>
		<dc:creator>Gulliver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Is it wrong that that picture makes me a little warm?&lt;/blockquote&gt; If ball-gagging the undead is wrong, I don&#039;t wanna be right...wait, what were we talking about?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Is it wrong that that picture makes me a little warm?</p></blockquote>
<p> If ball-gagging the undead is wrong, I don&#8217;t wanna be right&#8230;wait, what were we talking about?</p>
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		<title>By: Guest</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349725</link>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to know that Liberals now get their fair share of conspiracy theories.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to know that Liberals now get their fair share of conspiracy theories.</p>
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		<title>By: morgane</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349724</link>
		<dc:creator>morgane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>after a couple years losing LOTS of votes, the pro-Independence numbers in polls in Québec are up in 2012
wonder why...

(maybe because the tory support is 18% and going down in this province)

i dream of 1993 every night:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1993

169 lost seats down to 2!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>after a couple years losing LOTS of votes, the pro-Independence numbers in polls in Québec are up in 2012<br />
wonder why&#8230;</p>
<p>(maybe because the tory support is 18% and going down in this province)</p>
<p>i dream of 1993 every night:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1993" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1993</a></p>
<p>169 lost seats down to 2!</p>
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		<title>By: Gordon Stark</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349709</link>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Stark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The reason for the phenomena you describe is because there is an international war that George H. Bush started, where they make deals with Conservatives in other countries to make them the leaders of them by covert war upon Liberals and the other parties of them, covertly terrorizing and murdering their political opposition via covert U.S. Military assault in the war to compromise all democratic sovereignties on the earth.

The reasons for the evil is because the things America is judged for doing are so evil that those who are guilty will stop at nothing to attempt to wipe out any resistance to their war of international covert murder and terrorism to decide the policy of all the former democracies, and to cover up the extent of their crimes, and that America is about to be destroyed in having lost their war, yet they persist, while Obama struggles to clean up the mess, and save America, and has been doing as well as even the finest American could under the lose:lose scenario certain bad people invoked upon America.

Remember, what is truly happening is not shown on television, and only what they have failed to keep off of it, appears.  The world is in darkness, and all  sides are doing their best, behind the scenes as &quot;The War on Terror&quot; comes to it&#039;s forboding and &quot;prophetically correct&quot; climax, and inevitable conclusion, quite apart from having been removed from television in 2007 due to the hemispheric seriousness it reached at Kennebunkport, when America arrived upon the time of it&#039;s judgment by The Coalition in Defense of International Sovereignty.

These words are Faithful and True.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason for the phenomena you describe is because there is an international war that George H. Bush started, where they make deals with Conservatives in other countries to make them the leaders of them by covert war upon Liberals and the other parties of them, covertly terrorizing and murdering their political opposition via covert U.S. Military assault in the war to compromise all democratic sovereignties on the earth.</p>
<p>The reasons for the evil is because the things America is judged for doing are so evil that those who are guilty will stop at nothing to attempt to wipe out any resistance to their war of international covert murder and terrorism to decide the policy of all the former democracies, and to cover up the extent of their crimes, and that America is about to be destroyed in having lost their war, yet they persist, while Obama struggles to clean up the mess, and save America, and has been doing as well as even the finest American could under the lose:lose scenario certain bad people invoked upon America.</p>
<p>Remember, what is truly happening is not shown on television, and only what they have failed to keep off of it, appears.  The world is in darkness, and all  sides are doing their best, behind the scenes as &#8220;The War on Terror&#8221; comes to it&#8217;s forboding and &#8220;prophetically correct&#8221; climax, and inevitable conclusion, quite apart from having been removed from television in 2007 due to the hemispheric seriousness it reached at Kennebunkport, when America arrived upon the time of it&#8217;s judgment by The Coalition in Defense of International Sovereignty.</p>
<p>These words are Faithful and True.</p>
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		<title>By: JProffitt71</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349704</link>
		<dc:creator>JProffitt71</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for that thought; I have been wondering the same thing. I used to believe in reaching out to every perspective and practicing compromise everywhere, but the &#039;conservative&#039; ideology has become absolute poison – everything it touches dies bit by bit. I am torn because it seems wrong to judge an entire party or political belief, but this one is so blatantly causing harm to society and impeding our very ability to reason and compromise that it demands attention and judgement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for that thought; I have been wondering the same thing. I used to believe in reaching out to every perspective and practicing compromise everywhere, but the &#8216;conservative&#8217; ideology has become absolute poison – everything it touches dies bit by bit. I am torn because it seems wrong to judge an entire party or political belief, but this one is so blatantly causing harm to society and impeding our very ability to reason and compromise that it demands attention and judgement.</p>
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		<title>By: suburbanhick</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349696</link>
		<dc:creator>suburbanhick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...the Tories were split into two parties (Conservative and Crazy/Reform).&quot;

Remember when they were toying with the idea of calling it the Canadian Reform-Alliance Party - the C.R.A.P.? They shoulda stuck to that one; that&#039;s what we&#039;ve been stuck with!

I can *almost* feel a little sorry for Peter Mackay - shamefully selling out his once-honourable party like he did - until I remember what a spineless, shifty, opportunistic weasel he really is. Then - Rrr!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;the Tories were split into two parties (Conservative and Crazy/Reform).&#8221;</p>
<p>Remember when they were toying with the idea of calling it the Canadian Reform-Alliance Party &#8211; the C.R.A.P.? They shoulda stuck to that one; that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been stuck with!</p>
<p>I can *almost* feel a little sorry for Peter Mackay &#8211; shamefully selling out his once-honourable party like he did &#8211; until I remember what a spineless, shifty, opportunistic weasel he really is. Then &#8211; Rrr!</p>
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		<title>By: Mister44</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349692</link>
		<dc:creator>Mister44</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Probably not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Probably not.</p>
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		<title>By: Mister44</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349693</link>
		<dc:creator>Mister44</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Bah - Rammstein is just a KMFDM re-hash.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Bah &#8211; Rammstein is just a KMFDM re-hash.</p>
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		<title>By: Labbit</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349687</link>
		<dc:creator>Labbit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> I thought it was the cover of Rammstein&#039;s next album.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I thought it was the cover of Rammstein&#8217;s next album.</p>
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		<title>By: Kimmo</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349683</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What the fuck has &lt;i&gt;happened&lt;/i&gt; to so-called &#039;conservatives&#039; over the last 30 years?

They used to just be a recalcitrant malignance, but now they&#039;re a ravening scourge of unadulterated fucking evil.

I &lt;i&gt;used&lt;/i&gt; to think Alex Jones was a bit of a nut...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What the fuck has <i>happened</i> to so-called &#8216;conservatives&#8217; over the last 30 years?</p>
<p>They used to just be a recalcitrant malignance, but now they&#8217;re a ravening scourge of unadulterated fucking evil.</p>
<p>I <i>used</i> to think Alex Jones was a bit of a nut&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gordon Stark</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349641</link>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Stark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cory, there is no Government of Canada anymore, it was taken out by the U.S. Military in the war it publicly declared on Canada (via the CBC) in the 2005/06 assaults.   

What is called &quot;The Harper Government&quot; is a judged and convicted fraud of unprecedented proportions, and that is why the war criminals are not even trying to pretend they are doing anything good or legal, for they are making war on Canada in return for U.S. Military support breeching election security to make Harper -appear- elected by the covert terror assault and verified murders of innocent Canadians, in America&#039;s continuing non-repentance of it&#039;s international aggressions in the covert war of terror on Canada and our other allies.

These facts are verified by The Crown in Canada&#039;s Strategic Defense Initiative of 2005, and enforcement of national defense in America&#039;s continuing unprovoked war of covert aggressions against Canada, is forthcoming, and imminent.

When you witness blatantly offensive &quot;Bills of War&quot; being rammed through the embattled house by a proven fraudulent and false majority, who are convicted of war crimes with America, do not be concerned about the devastating harm that is being done, which would increase, before the threat to international security is removed for good, and all things are made new.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cory, there is no Government of Canada anymore, it was taken out by the U.S. Military in the war it publicly declared on Canada (via the CBC) in the 2005/06 assaults.   </p>
<p>What is called &#8220;The Harper Government&#8221; is a judged and convicted fraud of unprecedented proportions, and that is why the war criminals are not even trying to pretend they are doing anything good or legal, for they are making war on Canada in return for U.S. Military support breeching election security to make Harper -appear- elected by the covert terror assault and verified murders of innocent Canadians, in America&#8217;s continuing non-repentance of it&#8217;s international aggressions in the covert war of terror on Canada and our other allies.</p>
<p>These facts are verified by The Crown in Canada&#8217;s Strategic Defense Initiative of 2005, and enforcement of national defense in America&#8217;s continuing unprovoked war of covert aggressions against Canada, is forthcoming, and imminent.</p>
<p>When you witness blatantly offensive &#8220;Bills of War&#8221; being rammed through the embattled house by a proven fraudulent and false majority, who are convicted of war crimes with America, do not be concerned about the devastating harm that is being done, which would increase, before the threat to international security is removed for good, and all things are made new.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry Harmon</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349639</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Harmon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is more a knock on the press than on the government.   You can expect the government to do what it thinks is in its own best interests, even if it isn&#039;t.    Why doesn&#039;t the press try to do a little leg work and find the story instead of relying on big Gov to spoon-feed it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is more a knock on the press than on the government.   You can expect the government to do what it thinks is in its own best interests, even if it isn&#8217;t.    Why doesn&#8217;t the press try to do a little leg work and find the story instead of relying on big Gov to spoon-feed it?</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349617</link>
		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it wrong that that picture makes me a little warm?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it wrong that that picture makes me a little warm?</p>
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		<title>By: BBNinja</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349608</link>
		<dc:creator>BBNinja</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow...Canada is becoming more American than Americans. </description>
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		<title>By: Morgan Maher</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349605</link>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Maher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chinada</description>
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		<title>By: Brad Zimmerman</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349573</link>
		<dc:creator>Brad Zimmerman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can&#039;t (have an informed debate).  That&#039;s the whole point of deliberately one-sided, smash-grab-run politics.  It&#039;s short-sighted, it&#039;s self-centered, it screws almost everyone and that&#039;s just fine with the people doing it because they and their buddies benefit and if you aren&#039;t them or their buddies then screw you for being such a lazy hippie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can&#8217;t (have an informed debate).  That&#8217;s the whole point of deliberately one-sided, smash-grab-run politics.  It&#8217;s short-sighted, it&#8217;s self-centered, it screws almost everyone and that&#8217;s just fine with the people doing it because they and their buddies benefit and if you aren&#8217;t them or their buddies then screw you for being such a lazy hippie.</p>
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		<title>By: yeahyeahwhtever</title>
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		<dc:creator>yeahyeahwhtever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We used to point to communist governments because they censored for propaganda reasons.  They were the &quot;bad guys&quot; and we were the &quot;good guys&quot;.
Now OUR government censors for propaganda reasons.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We used to point to communist governments because they censored for propaganda reasons.  They were the &#8220;bad guys&#8221; and we were the &#8220;good guys&#8221;.<br />
Now OUR government censors for propaganda reasons.  </p>
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		<title>By: gaiapunk</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349552</link>
		<dc:creator>gaiapunk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is very, very, bad news.  How can you have informed debate, a necessary component of good policy making, when people the expertise to help inform the general discussion aren&#039;t even in the conversation!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is very, very, bad news.  How can you have informed debate, a necessary component of good policy making, when people the expertise to help inform the general discussion aren&#8217;t even in the conversation!</p>
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		<title>By: LordBlagger</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349530</link>
		<dc:creator>LordBlagger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just the same as UEA and CRU not releasing their data subject to FOI requests</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just the same as UEA and CRU not releasing their data subject to FOI requests</p>
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		<title>By: rocketpjs</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349531</link>
		<dc:creator>rocketpjs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, for a lot of the time the Libs were last in power the Tories were split into two parties (Conservative and Crazy/Reform).

I&#039;m not knocking Chretien and his bunch (much), but they started their term with massive cuts to all sorts of key programs (abandoning their funding of affordable housing being front and center in their short term pain for long term more pain strategy).  They then spend 12 or so years avoiding anything controversial until they were in a minority government and had no choice but to throw the plebs a few bones (which didn&#039;t work as it was too late).

I&#039;d take a Lib/NDP/Green and even BQ coalition over the Cons anyday, but the Libs will have to take a few more drubbings before they would ever consider such a thing, being the so-called &#039;natural governing party&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, for a lot of the time the Libs were last in power the Tories were split into two parties (Conservative and Crazy/Reform).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not knocking Chretien and his bunch (much), but they started their term with massive cuts to all sorts of key programs (abandoning their funding of affordable housing being front and center in their short term pain for long term more pain strategy).  They then spend 12 or so years avoiding anything controversial until they were in a minority government and had no choice but to throw the plebs a few bones (which didn&#8217;t work as it was too late).</p>
<p>I&#8217;d take a Lib/NDP/Green and even BQ coalition over the Cons anyday, but the Libs will have to take a few more drubbings before they would ever consider such a thing, being the so-called &#8216;natural governing party&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: scatterfingers</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349518</link>
		<dc:creator>scatterfingers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How quickly we forget.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How quickly we forget.</p>
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		<title>By: suburbanhick</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349481</link>
		<dc:creator>suburbanhick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@rocketpjs

Hey, they kept the Tories out, didn&#039;t they? That&#039;s gotta count for SOMEthing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@rocketpjs</p>
<p>Hey, they kept the Tories out, didn&#8217;t they? That&#8217;s gotta count for SOMEthing!</p>
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		<title>By: suburbanhick</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349479</link>
		<dc:creator>suburbanhick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No surprise here. Harper &amp; his pack of yes-men lapdogs have long been known to be anti-science. It conflicts with his born-again, overly simplistic, black/white, &quot;you&#039;re either with us or you&#039;re a child-molesting baby eater&quot; world view; and being the control freak that he is, he can&#039;t allow that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No surprise here. Harper &amp; his pack of yes-men lapdogs have long been known to be anti-science. It conflicts with his born-again, overly simplistic, black/white, &#8220;you&#8217;re either with us or you&#8217;re a child-molesting baby eater&#8221; world view; and being the control freak that he is, he can&#8217;t allow that.</p>
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		<title>By: rocketpjs</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349474</link>
		<dc:creator>rocketpjs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That would be if the Liberals had done anything actually progressive in the last 20 years they had in power, anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That would be if the Liberals had done anything actually progressive in the last 20 years they had in power, anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: McMe</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349462</link>
		<dc:creator>McMe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yet another reason to create our own monster in Canada: a coalition of the orange, red,and green parties! Might even get some real progressive  policies implemented such a proportional voting.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet another reason to create our own monster in Canada: a coalition of the orange, red,and green parties! Might even get some real progressive  policies implemented such a proportional voting.<br />
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		<title>By: digi_owl</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2012/02/18/canadas-government-muzzles-s.html#comment-1349458</link>
		<dc:creator>digi_owl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>a worrying trend this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a worrying trend this.</p>
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