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		<title>Fighting for the Teacher&#8217;s Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of sight from parents and the general public, school teachers and administrators are waging an increasingly tense battle over children with special needs—and the outcome could influence the future of public education. * &#8220;It’s discouraging. It’s depressing,” says Julia Christianson, a special education teacher at Cedar Hill Middle School. “I have many parents cry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Attack Staged? Duh&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian news media are leaping on this story of Russian fighters over our North that broke only hours ago &#8212; it&#8217;s already appearing in hundreds of outlets, according to Google News. And yet, I can virtually guarantee, it was completely staged. Read more.]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=434</link>
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		<title>Mysterious Fish Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you explain this bizarre, grotesque occurrence?]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=432</link>
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		<title>CHEK News: A Cycle of Squalor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the purpose of TV news to report responsibly or reinforce beliefs? CHEK&#8221;s August 10 evening local broadcast was a classic example of how mainstream television news tends to simply reinforce our society&#8217;s dominant opinions and beliefs.  Here&#8217;s how it went: Read more at Focus magazine.]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=426</link>
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		<title>New &#8220;Media Watch&#8221; Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be contributing regularly to Focus magazine&#8217;s new &#8220;Media Watch&#8221; blog on their completely refurbished website, where we&#8217;ll look at Victoria, BC-area news media and their coverage of local, national and international issues. Go here to check it out.]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=424</link>
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		<title>The Health Care &#8220;Crisis&#8221; Con</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While journalists help the Liberals drum up hysteria, health spending has actually remained relatively stable for decades. * It was one of those articles that makes me think, &#8220;Wow, I&#8217;ve been so stupid.&#8221; I love reading those. We&#8217;ve all heard alarms about health care gobbling 40% of BC&#8217;s provincial budget. Our Liberal government asserts that, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=414</link>
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		<title>Sorry, Computers are Not &#8220;Green&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the world becoming greener, or are some of us just becoming more prone to seeing it that way? * You&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;green-washing&#8221;, where companies make their products sound more ecologically friendly than they are. Well, I keep seeing something more insidious: green-tinted glasses. Green-washing is propaganda; it&#8217;s easy to spot and dispel. Like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=406</link>
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		<title>Top Internet Searches UNCENSORED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob the Fake Comedian riffs on the differences between the real most common search words and the top searches Google, Yahoo and Lycos give out to the media.]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=403</link>
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		<title>Reshaping Victoria&#8217;s Economy for a Sustainable Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An expert panel discusses how our municipal government could help build a more economically vital and ecologically resilient community * * There have long been gaps between the vision most of us have for a socially responsible, environmentally &#8220;green&#8221; Victoria, and the high-priced, unbridled growth towards which the dominant economic forces in this region steer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=386</link>
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		<title>Visioning Our Future or Our Pipe Dream?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a problematic gap between what many people want to see in Victoria&#8217;s Official Community Plan, and what traditional urban economics dictates. * As the public participation component of Victoria&#8217;s Official Community Plan process officially launched, the air felt heavy with irony. It was only March, but fans were already fighting mugginess in the glass-roofed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robwipond.com/?p=379</link>
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