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  16. <title>Conservative right or left</title>
  17. <description>Editor’s note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself ...</description>
  18. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/montana_rou_were_not_going_there.jpg" alt="Free fall" align="left" /><p>Editor’s note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself. SOME readers, particularly those used to the left-right split in most democratic legislatures, are bamboozled by The Economist’s political stance. We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But we also like gay marriage, want to legalise drugs and disapprove of monarchy. So is the newspaper right-wing or left-wing? Neither, is the answer. The Economist was founded in 1843 by James Wilson, a British businessman who objected to heavy import duties on foreign corn. Mr Wilson and his friends in the Anti-Corn Law League were classical liberals in the tradition of Adam Smith and, later, the likes of John Stuart Mill and William Ewart Gladstone. This intellectual ancestry has guided the newspaper's instincts ever since: it opposes all undue curtailment of an individual’s economic or personal freedom. But like its founders, it is not dogmatic. Where there is a liberal case for government to do something, The Economist will air it. Early in its life, its writers were keen supporters of the income tax, for example. Since then it has backed causes like universal health care and gun control. But its starting point is that government should only remove power and wealth from individuals when it has an excellent reason to do so.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  25. <title>Alberta Liberal Party health care</title>
  26. <description>David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, says a Liberal government would put resources into illness prevention. The announcement came on Tuesday when the Alberta Liberal party released its healthcare platform. According ...</description>
  27. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/fiery_debate_as_albertas_political_leaders.jpg" alt="Wildrose Party leader Brian" align="left" /><p>David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, says a Liberal government would put resources into illness prevention. The announcement came on Tuesday when the Alberta Liberal party released its healthcare platform. According to Swann, illness prevention would reduce hospital bed use as well as surgeries and a variety of future health complications. Swann says the healthcare system in Alberta has been struggling to find its identity after being decentralized, centralized and then decentralized again since 2008. The Liberals say if elected they would reduce administrative costs and prioritize front-line patient care resources. As well, the Liberals would expand home care and long-term care and reform AHS management structure to ensure Alberta healthcare decisions are separate from politics. The Liberals have already announced an aggressive vaccination program where all Alberta children must be vaccinated unless their parents or guardians sign a document acknowledging the risks of not vaccinating their child. Under a Liberal government, families in need of in vitro fertilization would have reasonable and fair access to treatment. The Liberals say their government would invest in mental health and addictions programs with early intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Finally, hospitals, in particular the Misericaordia Hospital and Edmonton, along with other facilities would get expedited care to upgrade and modernize.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  34. <title>Liberal Party of Canada t Shirts</title>
  35. <description>If you want to feel wanted, give your email address to a political party. Or, better yet, give your address to all three major federal parties and watch them compete for your attention. To be emailed on a regular basis by the ...</description>
  36. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/supporters_publicly_abandoning_liberal_party_over.jpg" alt="With images of Liberal" align="left" /><p>If you want to feel wanted, give your email address to a political party. Or, better yet, give your address to all three major federal parties and watch them compete for your attention. To be emailed on a regular basis by the party machines is to understand politics as a competition of great consequence. Your side needs you. And, if you act now, they’ll throw in this free “limited edition” T-shirt. All major parties have joined the permanent campaign and the demand for money is relentless. In 2013, the Liberals and New Democrats set new annual party records for funds raised, while the Conservatives enjoyed their best non-election year. Altogether, the three took in just less than $37.6 million (the Greens raised another $2.2 million, their own record). And perhaps the cheapest way for them to find that money is to send an email, or several. Over the last two months, the three major parties have collectively sent more than 60 emails to subscribers. Last week alone, the NDP sent out 10 emails, while the Conservatives fired off five of their own. “If we don’t win the next election, the NDP and Liberals are promising to undo everything we’ve worked to accomplish, ” one Conservative email warned. Another touted a recent column in the Toronto Star as proof that “the urban media elite are mobilizing against us.” That same day, the Liberals told their supporters that the Conservatives had raised millions more than they had so far this year. The day before that, the NDP told their supporters that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was charging $1, 000 for a ticket to one of his fundraising events, but New Democrats were rallying together their small donations: “That’s what this is all about: people like you, chipping in what you can to build this campaign from the ground up, not the other way around.” Every team is the underdog. An NDP email in July noted how much more the Liberals and Conservatives were spending on advertising, and boasted, “We don’t count on easy money from well-connected friends or rich insiders.” The Conservatives have fretted that, “In the next election, we won’t be fighting just the Liberals and NDP—we’ll be up against the Ottawa media, the union bosses, and the radical left.” A Liberal email in late July, entitled “Bad news, ” explained that the last fundraising results for the Conservatives were “scary.” “Justin Trudeau needs your help to build the team and the plan for Canada. Let’s show him we’re ready to do everything it takes for our country’s future, ” the note read. (The Conservatives subsequently sent out an email telling their supporters about the Liberal email as a warning that the Liberal party would now be “digging deep to try to get an advantage over us.”)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  44. <description>WASHINGTON — Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted “people are going to lose rights’’ if the Senate installed John Roberts as the Supreme Court’s chief justice. Democratic Representative John Lewis cautioned ...</description>
  45. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/not_pc_left_right_a_plague.jpg" alt="So that's where it came from" align="left" /><p>WASHINGTON — Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted “people are going to lose rights’’ if the Senate installed John Roberts as the Supreme Court’s chief justice. Democratic Representative John Lewis cautioned that a Roberts court would “no longer hear the people’s cries for justice.” That was 2005. One decade later, the legacy is looking a little different. The Supreme Court’s three highest-profile decisions since Roberts became the top justice were all decided in favor of liberals: It rejected two challenges from the right to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, including one on Thursday, ensuring 6 million people would keep their health care. On Friday, albeit over Roberts’ strenuous objection, the court granted same-sex couples the right to marry, affecting many millions more. This record has left conservatives spitting fire about a Republican Supreme Court pick who betrayed their cause. Democrats, meanwhile, celebrated in the streets of Washington for two straight days, as Obama is suddenly on a winning streak.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  52. <title>What is a political spectrum?</title>
  53. <description>When, in November 2012, Xi Jinping took up his position as secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), his political ideas and positioning inside the Party remained largely a mystery. The CCP is a huge bureaucratic ...</description>
  54. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/violence_at_both_ends_of_political.jpg" alt="A protester holds a petrol" align="left" /><p>When, in November 2012, Xi Jinping took up his position as secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), his political ideas and positioning inside the Party remained largely a mystery. The CCP is a huge bureaucratic machine mainly devoted to its own survival, within which various interests and priorities unceasingly compete at every level. The personal convictions of supreme leaders are at best diffuse and changing, and none of them can lastingly avoid going through the system of decision by consensus. For this reason it is somewhat futile to try to identify perennial political factions. Nonetheless, to canalize personal conflicts and court intrigues, the regime uses two kinds of tools. First, it constantly produces new institutions and more or less stable rules. And second, by building up clientelistic ties, it tries to ensure the support of certain groups inside and outside the Party that participate in political debates in the media and more largely in the Sinophone public sphere. Eighteen months after Xi’s ascension, news of a formal investigation of Zhou Yongkang wraps up the president’s first political cycle of power consolidation. That makes it a good time to attempt to sketch out the contours of the political synthesis represented by Xi Jinping, based on the public debates and institutional innovations that have been announced during the first third of his first term. As political positions continue to shift after the 18th Congress (at which time I presented a six-force model), the spectrum can be grossly divided into four main families: advocates of the “China Model, ” who dominate within the Party and the army, among “princelings” (children of former leaders) and State administrations; the “left, ” which is made up of both nostalgics of the Mao era (the old left) and academics, often trained in Western universities, critical of capitalism and proponents of a strong state (the New Left); social democrats, usually academics and former inner-Party reformers who, reaching old age, can speak out more freely (the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu is a case in point); and the liberals, overrepresented among the “metropolitan” (semi-private) media, lawyers, and more largely the urban population and private economy.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  61. <title>Define conservative government</title>
  62. <description>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I interviewed Mark Steyn, occasional guest host of this program. He&#039;s got a new book out. I interviewed him last week for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter. And we got to talking. He had made a ...</description>
  63. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/should_the_government_define.jpg" alt="Should The Government Define" align="left" /><p>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I interviewed Mark Steyn, occasional guest host of this program. He's got a new book out. I interviewed him last week for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter. And we got to talking. He had made a statement that I needed him to explain. I needed some clarification. He said, "You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." I wanted to know if he meant that literally or if he meant it in some other context, because clearly if the Republicans win the presidency in 2016, we're going to have, maybe not a conservative, but we're going to have somebody who is not liberal as president in a liberal culture. And by definition that will be a, let's say, Republican government. Now, I know the bureaucracy is populated with career leftists. But we're speaking theoretically here. The point he was trying to make was it doesn't matter. If we don't change the culture, we're never really going to change anything. We can have all the conservative presidents we want and if that doesn't mean or translate to or result from a change in the culture, the culture remains dominantly liberal. Pop culture, entertainment, all that. News business culture, if that doesn't change, then the two can't go together. Meaning there's no way that a conservative or Republican president is going to tame liberals who oppose him. So I brought up Reagan. And I said, "How would you explain that?" That was a dominant liberal culture then, because it always has been, and yet Reagan won two landslides. He reminded me of something that I didn't need to be reminded of. Reagan was still hated and reviled and all that, that's true, but Reagan still won two landslides. We never got rid of the Department of Education, but we did cut taxes and made some inroads and got sensible policies on a lot of things. There were Reagan Democrats. There were Democrats leaving the party and becoming Republicans. Now, the culture still despised Reagan, but we had an effective conservative president in the midst of a liberal culture. And if what Steyn had said was literally true, that you cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture, then what do you have, what is the purpose of a conservative/Republican winning the presidency, if it simply can't co-exist with a dominant liberal culture? With that thought in my mind, I ran across an opinion piece at a blog site, a website called Talking Points Memo headed up by some guy named Joshua Micah Marshall.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  70. <title>Liberal Party platform</title>
  71. <description>The Alberta Liberal 2015 platform is specifically designed for hard-working Alberta families. This visionary document has three key pillars: progressive issues, urban agenda and trusted leadership for all Albertans. PROGRESSIVE ...</description>
  72. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/nb_liberal_platform_promises_spending_increases.jpg" alt="Liberal Leader Brian Gallant" align="left" /><p>The Alberta Liberal 2015 platform is specifically designed for hard-working Alberta families. This visionary document has three key pillars: progressive issues, urban agenda and trusted leadership for all Albertans. PROGRESSIVE ISSUES Problem: The gay-straight alliance issue has shown Albertans that Mr. Prentice dithers. Alberta Liberals had to drag the Prentice Conservatives over the line. Solution: Albertans can count on Alberta Liberals to stand up on progressive issues: Equal pay for work of equal value Improving vaccination rates Teaching sexual consent in school Increasing legal aid funding Protection for paid farm workers Quote: “Albertans can’t trust the Prentice Conservatives on progressive issues, ” says Liberal Leader David Swann. “Albertans can count on Liberals to be a strong voice on progressive issues.” URBAN AGENDA Problem: More than 80 per cent of Albertans live in urban areas, yet our municipal leaders do not have adequate funding to build our cities and towns. Solution: Alberta Liberals recognize the unique needs of cities big and small and believe that thriving, properly financed municipalities benefit all Albertans: Historic five point municipal agenda Improve health care access Dignity for seniors Excellence in K-12 and post-secondary education Arts and culture investment Quote: “Alberta Liberals propose the strongest municipal agenda in Alberta’s history, ” says David Swann. “Mr. Prentice seems quite happy to invest in golf courses while cities lack sustainable, predictable, and adequate funding.” LEADERSHIP FOR ALL ALBERTANS Problem: While the other parties are beholden to special interest groups – and have a hidden agenda – we represent all Albertans. Solution: The Alberta Liberal Party proudly occupies the moderate and sensible centre: Increase revenues $1, 173.2 million Better government: collect outstanding $1, 645.0 million Shrink deficit $1, 422.0 million Eliminate small business tax and health care levy Cut taxes on Albertans earning less than $50, 000 Adjust taxes on large corporations by a modest 2 per cent</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  80. <description>It was a great honour and privilege to once again meet with His Highness the Aga Khan and other Ismaili community leaders last night at the new Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa. For more than 50 years, the Aga Khan has ...</description>
  81. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/the_liberal_party_of.jpg" alt="The Liberal Party of" align="left" /><p>It was a great honour and privilege to once again meet with His Highness the Aga Khan and other Ismaili community leaders last night at the new Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa. For more than 50 years, the Aga Khan has been a global humanitarian leader, working tirelessly to reduce poverty, promote pluralism, and improve health and education outcomes in developing countries. He remains a beacon of acceptance and compassion, and an inspiration to both his community and the world.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  85. <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  88. <title>Benjamin Carson</title>
  89. <description>Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D., had a childhood dream of becoming a physician. Growing up in a single parent home with dire poverty, poor grades, a horrible temper, and low self-esteem appeared to preclude the realization of that ...</description>
  90. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/dr_benjamin_carson_reveals_unexpected_childhood.png" alt="Dr. Benjamin Carson Speaks" align="left" /><p>Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D., had a childhood dream of becoming a physician. Growing up in a single parent home with dire poverty, poor grades, a horrible temper, and low self-esteem appeared to preclude the realization of that dream until his mother, with only a third-grade education, challenged her sons to strive for excellence. Young Ben persevered and today is an emeritus professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and he has directed pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for over 29 years. He became the inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in his name in May 2008. He is now the Emeritus Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. and Dr. Evelyn Spiro, R.N. Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, having retired on June 30, 2013. Some career highlights include the first separation of craniopagus (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head in 1987, the first completely successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa, and the first successful placement of an intrauterine shunt for a hydrocephalic twin. Although he has been involved in many newsworthy operations, he feels that every case is noteworthy – deserving of maximum attention. He is interested in all aspects of pediatric neurosurgery and has a special interest in trigeminal neuralgia (severe facial pain) in adults.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  94. <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  98. <description>Canada&#039;s federal election is less than five months away, but the political advertisement season seems to have already started. The federal NDP and Liberal parties have released new election advertisements with very different ...</description>
  99. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/liberal_candidates_present_platforms_on_pipelines.jpg" alt="Federal Liberal debate" align="left" /><p>Canada's federal election is less than five months away, but the political advertisement season seems to have already started. The federal NDP and Liberal parties have released new election advertisements with very different tones. "You work hard every day to give your family the best, " says narrator Tom Mulcair, the party's federal leader. "Your government should be there to help your family make ends meet." The ad features seemingly middle-class people doing regular middle-class things, like kneading dough, running a business, or smiling at servers for an extended period of time after receiving coffee. The middle-class: we're all about strong eye contact. The short clip ends with Mulcair sitting in a quaint coffee shop next to a very hot cuppa. Seriously. Very hot. "I was raised on middle-class values and I'll work to strengthen the middle class, " he says. "Together we can bring change in Ottawa. I invite you to be part of it." The Toronto Star reports that the ads will start running on television Monday. The Facebook video is captioned "Secrecy, unfairness, lack of transparency, disdain for the Charter – all in a day’s work for the Harper government. It’s time for #fairness." It's based "in part" on a May 8 column by the National Post's Andrew Coyne, titled In the piece, Coyne summarizes the Conservative government's "busy day" on May 7, which included — among many other things — more Mike Duffy drama and a fundraising email from Pierre Poilievre that "scaled new heights of dishonesty, " as Coyne described it. "Critics" being one Andrew Coyne. The Liberals break down that day — with a delightful tune in the background — in their text-heavy ad, which you can watch below.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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