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		<title>Jack and Rita</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/jack-and-rita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jack Layton passed away on Monday, August 22, I was in the U.S., visiting my Grandma Rita, who was dying. As such, I didn’t find out about Mr. Layton’s death until later that evening, courtesy of This Magazine and Twitter. To say I was upset would be an understatement.  Since I was already emotionally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=224&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell &#8216;em that is human nature</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/tell-em-that-is-human-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London & UK riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marginalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“If the rioting was a surprise, people weren’t looking”  &#8211; Stafford Scott Of all the articles and blog posts I&#8217;ve read ever since London exploded, one of the best was Penny Red&#8217;s, in which she argues that people riot because they feel powerless; rioting gives them a sense of power, even if just for one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=197&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Stephen Harper</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/thank-you-stephen-harper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Union of Postal Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour movement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Stephen Harper, I want to thank you for your actions during the recent labour dispute between the Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.  Despite incredible resistance from the Official Opposition Party and other non-Conservative MPs, you remained true to your convictions and use your majority government to legislate the solution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=170&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pluto, Politics, and Proportionality</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/on-pluto-politics-and-proportionality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in elementary school, I learned that there were nine planets in Earth’s solar system:  Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Today’s elementary school students learn that there are eight planets in our solar system &#8211; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune &#8211; because, as of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=156&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A simple choice</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/a-simple-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quoteworthy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Hicks ~ Revelations The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it&#8217;s real because that&#8217;s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it&#8217;s very brightly colored, and it&#8217;s very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=140&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Relations</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/public-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I, along with some of my associates from the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, had a meeting with a Member of Provincial Parliament.  OPSEU had asked for this meeting as part of their Stop The Wage Freeze campaign, which is their… *ahem*… counternarrative to the Provincial government’s plan to freeze the wages of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=127&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racialytics #3:  It&#8217;s Always About Racism</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/racialytics-3-its-always-about-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racialytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[systemic racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[willful ignorance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 10, Maclean’s Magazine published &#8220;Too Asian?”, an article describing (some) White students’ decision not to apply to top-tier universities like the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the University of British Columbia, because they are “so academically focused that some students feel they can no longer compete or have fun.”  According [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=116&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I think I&#8217;ll move to Australia</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/i-think-ill-move-to-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[municipal politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a child, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day was one of my favourite books.  In particular, Alexander’s frequent refrain of “I think I’ll move to Australia” &#8211; the farthest place both he, and I, could think of &#8211; appealed to my imaginative young self.  It also kicked off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=100&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Fairy Princess</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/confessions-of-a-fairy-princess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ ally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never dreamed of becoming a fairy princess.  Most little girls do, I know, but I never did.  I was always more interested in reading books, or getting “creative” with my dad’s art supplies, or riding my bike, or playing “Knight Rider”, “Cloak &#38; Dagger”, or “A-Team” with my friends. When I got older, all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=89&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racialytics #2:  Invisible Majority</title>
		<link>http://counternarratives.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/racialytics-2-invisible-majority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominique</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Racialytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whiteness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Racialytics #2:  Invisible Majority This post is being written by a “visible minority”.  (Well, this is true of all the posts on this blog, since it’s mine, but bear with me.)  According to Statistics Canada, “visible minority” &#8230;refers to whether a person belongs to a visible minority group as defined by the Employment Equity Act [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=counternarratives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14609940&amp;post=72&amp;subd=counternarratives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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