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		<title>Reaction to Patrick Kerans&#8217; &#8220;A Pessimist&#8217;s Hope: Food and the Ecological Crisis&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was drawn first to the book launch and then to the book by its title: “A Pessimist’s Hope: Food and the Ecological Crisis”. I have long understood how pessimism and hope can coexist and, since I’ve been feeling increasingly pessimistic about our future due to the ecological crisis, and yet recently decided to become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=146&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada needs proportional representation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada federal election 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time again for the perennial post-mortem on the failing voter turnout in Canadian federal elections. Despite perhaps the most exciting election in decades, the percentage of Canadians who bothered to vote remained in the basement compared to peer countries, at 62%. Only France, at 60%, and the US, at 49% were lower in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=134&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Eating</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE ETHICS OF EATING Humans have always created ethical guidelines for what should be eaten and what shouldn&#8217;t. This is a natural inclination for a species that can eat just about anything, and believes in separating good from bad. In the past, these guidelines were often religious &#8211; kosher or halal, for instance &#8211; while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=135&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF IT&#8217;S BROKE, DON&#8217;T FIX IT (AS LONG AS YOU CAN WORK AROUND IT)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a year there was a gaping hole in my mom’s kitchen ceiling, where the leaky bathtub above it had finally caused the plaster to give way. She had no cause to fix it, because the hole was serendipitously situated directly above the kitchen sink, into which drops plunked conveniently whenever someone took a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=131&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS OF WEALTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a story I once heard about a fisherman and a tourist. The tourist comes across the fisherman dozing one afternoon on the beach by his boat and asks, “Why are you sleeping?” “Because I’m done fishing for the day,” replies the fisherman. “But,” says the tourist, “if you fished all day, you could make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=129&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AN EVENING AT THE WOLF HOWL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seanmichaelbutler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I was privileged to a unique experience – I talked to some wolves. Well, I didn’t actually do any talking, but I did – along with about 30 others – eavesdrop on a conversation between biologist Rhonda O’Grady and a couple of wolves at the edge of Gatineau Park. It was the latest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=127&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHY BIKES WIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I propose a race. A modern day duel between tortoise and hare. Picture this: a bicycle and an automobile, across Canada. Which one would you bet on? Are you sure about that? There is a catch. First, both drivers must earn enough money to buy their respective vehicles. Ah, you say – that’s different. To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=125&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT ABOUT AIDS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My partner recently received a letter from a friend who is working on an AIDS education project in Rwanda. In it, she complained, “If there is a war with Iraq, everyone is going to forget about HIV/AIDS issues.” For how long now has the news – in North America, Europe, possibly the whole world – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=122&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TROUBLE IN THE BARN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARGARETSVILLE, N.S. &#8211; The little barn is alive with people. A few naked light-bulbs burn away the gloom of late dusk; by their glow, we flip furiously through veterinary reference books, eyes scanning the texts, searching for answers. &#8220;Look under `Birthing &#8211; problems with!&#8217;&#8221; shouts Janet Wallace. She and her partner, David O&#8217;Leary, are in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=120&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS SPIN ROUND AND ROUND</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After five days of driving, we were back where we started. We had driven all day, we had driven all night, and then we had driven some more, pretending to sleep on a cot in the back of the van in between shifts at the wheel, until driving was all we were good for. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6058881&amp;post=118&amp;subd=seanmichaelbutler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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