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		<title>Consider This v2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m moving on up&#8230; After years of being hosted at Loyalist College and then on the free WordPress service, I have struck out on my own. You will find my new home is more beautiful and richer in features. Thanks to Remco at Digital Underground for hosting my new adventure. The intent is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=893&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Canadian Hyperlocal News Project launches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to explore innovative forms of journalism, the Canadian Hyperlocal News Project begins today. This article by Robert Washburn, professor of e-journalism at Loyalist College, starts the investigation with some basic terminology and an overview of this growing trend. But, it will not stop here. Over the upcoming days and months, the project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=891&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada &#8211; U.S. trade deal not so good for municipalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal leaders across Northumberland should take a moment to pause and consider the Conservative government’s newest Canada-U.S. trade deal announced late last week because it could mean more economic pain that it is suppose to relieve. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was busy extolling the virtues of a new trade that will remove the unrestricted right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=888&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping hospital plans secret an insult to local taxpayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent concerns raised around future services at Northumberland Hills Hospital is a major misstep as it keeps its plans under wraps rather than being transparent. Rumours wildly circulating around the possible closure of the palliative care unit that looks after fatally ill people raised the ire of former hospital chief fundraiser Bill Patchett recently. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=883&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners and losers in Samsung&#8217;s deal with Ontario</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement of a $7-billion deal allowing Samsung Group and a Korean utility to build 2,500 megawatts of solar and wind farms in Ontario last week may appear on the surface to be good news, but it is problematic in many ways. There are definitely winners. Samsung gets cash incentives, a toehold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=874&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community centre name should reflect vision, not myopia of bottom line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As fundraising consultant Ian Fraser outlined his campaign strategy before Cobourg council to raise $3.1 million for the new community centre, the issue of naming rights was raised. It is not uncommon for major fundraising drives to seek extraordinary donations from corporations and, in turn, give over naming rights.  Look at the General Motors Place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=868&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Municipal Elections 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vote! project offers a unique opportunity to test certain aspects of the Citizens’ Assembly protocols. On Wednesday Oct. 18, 2006, a mayoralty debate was held at Loyalist College in Alumni Hall at 7 p.m. The three candidates, Mary Anne Sills, Neil Ellis and Doug Rolllins, attended a public meeting. History: Vote! Project 2006 Loyalist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=866&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All candidates meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a night! The stream went really well, I think. We had up to seven people at a time coming and going. It was a clear stream from our end. I think the server made a difference, plus the higher speed connection at the collere. We can really pump it out. The wireless thing with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=864&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics for Vote &#8211; January 15, 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[he stats are in for the first week of election work. Total of 886 visitors. 445 were first time. We received one email submission this week from David Dailey, of Belleville. Obviously, he is a union/activist from his email. We are very successful in pursuing questions for the site. It is interesting to note that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=862&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An assessment of the live blog for the Peterborough consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert  Washburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Peterborough consultation session for the Citizens’ Assembly was a great opportunity for the e-journalism students to get some practical experience, along with providing a chance to test our technology. The results of the journalism are currently being edited, but the live coverage was most interesting. Barb MacEachern was chosen to live blog the event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rwash.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8062740&amp;post=860&amp;subd=rwash&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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