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	<description>...these wandering thoughts</description>
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		<title>Democracy and education: they go together, except when the government doesn&#8217;t like it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org &#8211; see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board&#8217;s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow.  Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/democracy-and-education-they-go-together-except-when-the-government-doesnt-like-it/</link>
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		<title>Protecting the people elected to do the peoples&#8217; work from the people who want them to do their work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three days, a fake lake, and $1 billion dollars in security costs later, the G8/G20 meetings will have wrapped up by the afternoon of June 27.  Over one hundred protestors will have been arrested, and as of the time of writing, at least three police cars have been burned.  Hundreds of police officers will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/protecting-the-people-elected-to-do-the-peoples-work-from-the-people-who-want-them-to-do-their-work/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Do not simply, passively, only just think of the world.  Change it too.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, Many people have asked me to share the text of my remarks to convocation today. You&#8217;ll find them below. But first &#8211; I really, truly, and strongly believe that all of our experiences from our adventures at university have been influenced by the people that we&#8217;ve been lucky to go through them with. All [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2010/06/do-not-simply-passively-only-just-think-of-the-world-change-it-too/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;an unfinished thought&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked, recently, to participate in an interview at the university about the president&#8216;s &#8216;legacy&#8217;, given that he will be retiring in a few months. An interesting question. As is common with me, the conversation drifted during the interview, from what the president&#8217;s legacy might be to what it should be and why education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/11/an-unfinished-thought/</link>
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		<title>advanced education should be bracing for impacts &#8211; and getting ready to say no to budget cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following appeared on the Stop BC Library Cuts website today, after an communiqué from the provincial government: On August 20, 2009 the Province of British Columbia announced that the provincial dollars to support public libraries would be $13,700,000, which is about 78% of previous years. While this represents a reduction, the libraries of BC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/08/advanced-education-should-be-bracing-for-impacts-and-getting-ready-to-say-no-to-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<title>iranians: &#8220;no more pinochets&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#iranelection If you&#8217;re on Twitter (I admit it, I have an account), or on Facebook, or if you&#8217;ve watched anything approaching television news in the past few days, you&#8217;ll likely have noted that there&#8217;s something going down in Iran &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re on Twitter, where the tag #iranelection has been a trending topic for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/06/iranians-no-more-pinochets/</link>
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		<title>envision education / get involved with the university community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“envision education” A community-led visioning workshop – creating a new vision for our university What is this event? “envision education” is a community-led visioning workshop that brings together members of the university community to develop a plan for our university. Community resistance to cutbacks, budget reductions, layoffs, and program elimination is met with two general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/05/envision-education-get-involved-with-the-university-community/</link>
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		<title>crazy sign time / election time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Gordon Campbell will venture through suburban Victoria to Government House, a lovely plot of land with a garden, and will recommend to the Lieutenant-Governor that the legislative assembly be disolved and writs of election be issued for the province. The most immediate impact to you and me? Tons and tons of signs will soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/04/crazy-sign-time-election-time/</link>
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		<title>the results are in! / sfu senate election results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps not strangely, the main search term for people landing at my website today has been &#8216;sfu senate election results&#8217;. To properly appease the masses, here they are.  A fairly small amount of students participated &#8211; 1,376.  Twice that participated in the SFSS elections.  If there&#8217;s one thing that these elections show, it&#8217;s that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/03/the-results-are-in-sfu-senate-election-results/</link>
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		<title>guelph action / activism elsewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a bit of a break from my roughly 20k-words worth of papers is due, in my estimation.  I&#8217;ve come across some evidence of another university going through similar budgetary difficulties as SFU has recently &#8212; at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. Apparently, as part of a budgetary review sparked by a &#8220;budgetary crisis,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinharding.ca/2009/03/guelph-action-activism-elsewhere/</link>
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