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		<title>Ostriches</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/28/848/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his <i>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> series, author Douglas Adams invented a beast called the Ravenous Bugblatter of Traal, a creature so stupid that it assumed that if it can't see you, you can't see it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Census</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But reasoned arguments are unlikely to change Harper's mind. Like all right-wing politicians, he harbours an ingrained antipathy to anything that resembles government intrusion in people's lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Good deeds</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/21/846/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost by definition, a good deed is given away, with no expectation of getting anything back. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gusher</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/18/844/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the potential consequences of technological mistakes, we need to start thinking seriously about the implications of &#8220;never.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Gran&#8217;paaaaa!</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/14/842/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But to what age do we hold children responsible for their actions? If you drill a hole in the ocean floor, under a mile of seawater, shouldn't someone have thought through the potential consequences first?]]></description>
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		<title>Miracles</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/11/840/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the program's most graphic image, the surgeons at Sick Children's Hospital cracked Mike's chest open from armpit to armpit, like a flip-top cigarette pack. They lifted out a soggy mass of dark red tissue dripping blood.<br />
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Then they carefully lowered in a pair of soft pink lungs donated by a young woman who had died in a car accident.]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/07/837/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My generation was brought up with a different mindset. We were taught to make the best of what we had &#8211; cars, houses, jobs, partners.... Even if it wasn't the best, make the best of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Explanation</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/04/835/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday July 4, 2010
No column this week
By Jim Taylor
Let me tell you about my past week&#8230;.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;On Monday, I flew to Edmonton. On Tuesday, I led an all-day session on my Eight-Step Editing program, for a group of Alberta government staff. On Wednesday&#8230; well, Wednesday deserves a paragraph of its own.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;My daughter Sharon and I set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious?</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/30/833/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So does the religious validity of my writing depend on the depth of my own faith? If so, how would anyone know how religious I am &#8211; aside from what I write in my columns?]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/27/831/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I feel for the pain of those who suffered abuse, private truth-telling is not the way to achieve reconciliation. Aboriginal and white populations need to tell their stories to each other &#8211; face to face, heart to heart.]]></description>
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