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	<description>No Taxation Without Representation!  SECEDE OR CONCEDE</description>
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		<title>We Protest: An Orleans’ Manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We, the people of Orleans, are tired of being complained about. Using the euphemism “outside the greenbelt”, politicians, editorial writers, and “public intellectuals” alike, seem to believe that those who live in the eastern urban area of Ottawa are slothful suburbanites whose very existence encourages sprawl, wastes boatloads of other people’s money in infrastructure spending, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Snodgrass observes de Tocqueville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OP Miner&#8217;s sometimes metaphorical rant documenting the obscenity of some of the pay cycles in the current public aristocracy smacks of sincerity. Indeed, you will know obscenity when you see it, and certain job descriptions tickling six figures and up do fail the smell test. Though I have never met Mr. Miner, I think I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=36</link>
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		<title>The Hockey Locker Room&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.A Thought By Curtis Gillespie</title>
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In the locker room, anything goes. Salty language, strange smells and infantile behavior - some of  hockey&#8217;s best games are played behind closed doors. Stepping onto the ice and playing hockey requires timing, a bit of strength, some lung power and an overall physical exertion that both exhilarates and exhausts, even when it looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=35</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s That Smell ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TJ’s comment that “taxpayers contain within themselves the seeds for their own funny farm” got me to thinking. That in itself (me thinking) is a bit of a foreign travaille. The more I thought about it and the more I started researching, the more pissed off I became.  In a day when nothing stays hidden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=34</link>
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		<title>OC Transpo on Strike in Ottawa</title>
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Whoever wrote that taxpayers contain within themselves the seeds for their own funny farm sure saw the OC Transpo boys coming. Let me get this straight Ottawans: your bus drivers now have a higher salary than a mid-career JAZZ airline pilot, and are hot and bothered and ready to turn down a pay increase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Our Rep in Ottawa West      by Garth Turner</title>
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A footnote of history for political junkies is that I was thrown out of the Conservative caucus one day before the Harper government brought in its long-awaited green plan, which turned out to be the recycled Clean Air Act.
During the caucus meeting which saw my ship go down, as you will be reading in due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=32</link>
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		<title>How did it ever get this way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living here is like perpetually scanning a set of boring personals ads. Everybody wants the same cozy evenings by the fireside, the same long walks on the beach. But it&#8217;s all a facade. Organicism is a myth. Our bodies are never ourselves, our words and texts are never really our own. They aren&#8217;t &#8220;us,&#8221; but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Chuck Lorre #230</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the great wheel of our democracy rolls forward, I think it&#8217;s important to take a moment and remember a forgotten hero. A man who so loved his country, he was willing to put on a suit purchased by a personal shopper, stand on a Minneapolis stage in front of a national audience and fake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Turn out the lights when you leave&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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Another federal election is over in Canada and the folks of Orleans decided to ignore the local issues and candidates and vote for or against the national party leaders. I understand that a lot of my neighbours couldn&#8217;t get around the fact of having Mr. Dion in the position of Prime Minister. I can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=24</link>
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		<title>An Election if Necessary, but Not Necessarily an Election!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The election in Ottawa-Orléans will be fought from the Tory bunker with Herr Harper dictating commands to his Petain-like candidate Royal Galipeau.  Ooo, I can’t wait.!
Word has it that upon seeing that his main competitor occupied the same strip mall but at a higher perch, Nostferatu skulked around hrumphing and grumbling up and down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cityoforleans.ca/?p=23</link>
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