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		<title>Thanks a Trillion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it,”  said Leo Tolstoy in his A Confession.  Americans got a sobering and slightly angering dose of that reality early last week when a new economic report revealed &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/thanks-a-trillion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Misery and Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few know it, but I cut my teeth on international work four decades ago in Bangladesh.  It was a sobering and humbling experience.  A terrible war, hunger, excessive flooding due to a furious monsoon season, and the ongoing animosities between &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/misery-and-company/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Hockey Widower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Urban Dictionary, a “hockey widow” is “a woman who is married to a man who is so obsessively involved with hockey that it keeps him away from home.”  That’s me, except technically I’m defined as a “hockey &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/confessions-of-a-hockey-widower/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greasing the Skids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innately, everyone comprehends that the days of cheap oil are over and that supplies have passed their prime.  Yet a large contingent of governments, instead of implementing sustainable policies to slowly maneuver their economies in accordance with that reality, continue &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/greasing-the-skids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Glen, Cheer Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; SOMEBODY WHO REGULARLY FOLLOWS these blogs posts said to me in a downtown coffee shop this week: “Glen, the subject of your latest posts speaks to the most pressing problems we face right now. The problem is that people &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/glen-cheer-up/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Continuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“An economist,” Laurence Peter says, “is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”  He was the famous inventor of the Peter Principle – the belief that once a labourer rises to a &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/05/continuum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Crisis of Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a voice increasingly coming from the economic periphery and gaining more traction the longer it takes for global economies to get up off the mat.  While not exactly the voice of doom, as in apocalyptic, it nevertheless speaks of &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/04/a-crisis-of-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s communities run the real danger of enduring the erosion of the creative class &#8211; that group that provides the thinking, innovation, and strategies for the jobs and economy of the future.  If we don&#8217;t start paying attention to how &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/04/the-creative-cliff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bring On the Lunatics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we start a new series concerning the end of growth and how to learn to live with the new normal.  Really it’s about stasis – ancient Greek term meaning “to stand still”.  Most of us have been sensing this &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/04/bring-on-the-lunatics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Canadian Politics Have A Breakthrough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does politics really matter anymore?  The greatest challenges facing our generation are getting short shrift from the major parties as they continue to tinker around the edges and continually seek out that &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; that will hopefully launch them into &#8230; <a href="http://www.glenpearson.ca/2013/04/will-canadian-politics-have-a-breakthrough/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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