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		<title>Quebec students &amp; Obama partisans prove some teachers indoctrinate rather than educate</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/26/quebec-students-obama-partisans-prove-some-teachers-indoctrinate-rather-than-educate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mike Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina Teacher Stops Student Debate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is now plenty of proof that far too many teachers in both the United States and Canada are not &#8220;educating&#8221; their students about alternative political viewpoints. Rather, they are indoctrinating them with a &#8220;my way or the highway&#8221; one-sided progressive ideology that, over the long term, could actually threaten our right to free speech and political affiliation.    [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35391&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marching for freedom in 1944 vs marching for free tuition in 2012</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/25/marching-for-freedom-in-1944-vs-marching-for-free-tuition-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/25/marching-for-freedom-in-1944-vs-marching-for-free-tuition-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Province of Quebec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Univ. Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quebec Students Protest Fee Hikes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://crux-of-the-matter.com/?p=35305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are three photos in this post. The first was taken during WWII and shows young soldiers marching down a village street in France in 1944. The other two were taken recently in Montreal in May of 2012. In the 1944 photo, the young soldiers were marching to free the people of the village because it was the start of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35305&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaked Ornge budget document vs Liam Reid&#8217;s OHIP for US treatment</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/24/leaked-ornge-budget-document-vs-liam-reids-ohip-for-us-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/24/leaked-ornge-budget-document-vs-liam-reids-ohip-for-us-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McGuinty Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OHIP Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornge Ambulance Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liam Reid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontarío's Ornge Scandal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Ontario PCs have released information from a leaked Ornge Ambulance budget document and it&#8217;s mind-boggling! Read it and weep. As MPP Frank Klees writes in the PC news release: “$20 million in taxpayer dollars are flowing out the door to investors instead of being put towards patient care.” Of course, all Ontarians want an air [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35270&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McGuinty gov&#8217;t refuses OHIP for blind 2-yr-old Liam Reid US treatment</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/23/mcguinty-govt-refuses-ohip-for-blind-2-yr-old-liam-reid-us-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/23/mcguinty-govt-refuses-ohip-for-blind-2-yr-old-liam-reid-us-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McGuinty Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, officials at the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) say they can&#8217;t talk about an individual case due to privacy laws. Well, fortunately I have no such limitations, given the family has already spoken to reporter Caroline Alphonso at the Globe and Mail.   As Alphonso reports, Liam Reid is two years old and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35249&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mason Stokes, who has autism, saves friend&#8217;s life with Heimlich Manoeuver.</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/22/mason-stokes-who-has-autism-saves-friends-life-with-heimlich-manoeuver/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/22/mason-stokes-who-has-autism-saves-friends-life-with-heimlich-manoeuver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heimlich Manoeuver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mason Stokes, age 15, has an autism spectrum disorder and lives in Chalmers Indiana. Recently, while eating lunch in the high school cafeteria, he noticed one of his classmates struggling to breath and coughing really hard. Saying he is good under pressure, he apparently calmly got up and went over to his friend and did the Heimlich Manoeuver &#8212; a skill he had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35228&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quebec student protestor &#8220;rights&#8221; do not trump &#8220;rights&#8221; of others</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/22/quebec-student-protestor-rights-do-not-trump-rights-of-others/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/22/quebec-student-protestor-rights-do-not-trump-rights-of-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Province of Quebec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quebec Students Protest Fee Hikes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The naive, spoiled, Quebec student leaders, along with the entitled, well paid &#8220;public&#8221; (as in taxpayer funded) sector union officials, who are protesting in Montreal about tuition fees and all things capitalist, don&#8217;t get it. They don&#8217;t get that their fundamental right to protest and shut down entire Montreal neighbourhoods does not trump the rights of others. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35177&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who knew Health Canada investigates &#8220;garage&#8221; sales for consumer safety?</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/21/who-knew-health-canada-investigates-garage-sales-for-consumer-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/21/who-knew-health-canada-investigates-garage-sales-for-consumer-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Gov't]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Protection Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, who would have believed, when the Conservative government of Stephen Harper unveiled new consumer safety legislation a few years ago, that such a road would be built on the taxpayers&#8217; dime? Of course, the PM and his Cabinet would not have anticipated such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35158&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob, blind &amp; with autism, bonds with busker Tyler Gregory</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/19/jacob-blind-with-autism-bonds-with-busker-tyler-gregory/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/19/jacob-blind-with-autism-bonds-with-busker-tyler-gregory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Gregory bonds with Jacob]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a heartwarming story!  An eight year old blind boy, who allegedly suffers from a severe autism spectrum disorder and known on the Internet only as Jacob, stopped to listen to Tyler Gregory. Gregory, a regular busker in Lawrence, Kansas, at first doesn&#8217;t seem to notice Jacob. However, as the song goes on, Jacob starts to sway to the music, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35133&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why did NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair &#8220;label&#8221; Conrad Black a &#8220;British criminal&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/19/why-did-ndp-leader-thomas-mulcair-label-conrad-black-a-british-criminal/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/19/why-did-ndp-leader-thomas-mulcair-label-conrad-black-a-british-criminal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 19:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conrad Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law & Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conrad Black Interviewed by Peter Mansbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a person completes their debt to society, are they not just an ordinary citizen like anyone else?  If so, why did NDP Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair stand up in Canada&#8217;s House of Commons and label Conrad Black a &#8220;British criminal?&#8221; And, why do commenters on mainstream media columns on this topic do the same thing? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35104&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greece shows why &#8220;Proportional Representation&#8221; won&#8217;t work in Canada</title>
		<link>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/17/greece-shows-why-proportional-representation-wont-work-in-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://crux-of-the-matter.com/2012/05/17/greece-shows-why-proportional-representation-wont-work-in-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Kelly McParland wrote in yesterday&#8217;s National Post, the current unstable political situation in Greece confirms that Proportional Representation (PR) is a very risky type of electoral system. I mean, the Greek people just had an election on May 6th, 2012. Yet, now they have to go back to the polls. Why? Because none of the party leaders can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crux-of-the-matter.com&#038;blog=25112126&#038;post=35077&#038;subd=sandycrux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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