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		<title>2010 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2010. That&#8217;s about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=408&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not In My Backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studies have been conducted looking into the possible links between wind turbines and health hazards they may cause By Matthew Cohen There’s a growing opposition to the proposed installation of wind turbines inToronto, now the mounting voices of critics have more ammunition on their side over reports of health concerns created from active wind farms. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=397&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Ticks for Coal in Ontario</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts weigh-in on the government&#8217;s decision to eliminate coal plants in Ontario By Matthew Cohen An eminent professor in the field of chemical engineering says there have been vast improvements in clean coal technology within the last decade that prove it can be processed with minimal damage to the environment. “There have been power plants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=394&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wheels of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-Bikes power way through city street By Matthew Cohen When Tammy Chuvalier, 41, bought her first e-bike she knew that she made the right choice joining the growing number of people investing in alternative transportation. “E-bikes are really great, they can be so much fun … plus it’s easy way to get in and out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=389&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto awash in sights, sounds and scents of Vaisakhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Matthew Cohen/Toronto Observer Nathan Phillips Square was awash in colour Sunday as Sikhs from all over the Toronto area celebrated the festival of Vaisakhi. Tens of thousands of people converged on downtown Toronto Sunday to honour the Sikh celebration of Vaisakhi. Nathan Phillips Square was packed with people paying tribute to their religion through song, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=356&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US War resister pins hope on Bill C-440</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Matthew Cohen/Toronto Observer US Iraq War resister Kimberly Elaine Rivera and her daughters Katie, ten months, and Rebecca, five, are hoping to gain permanent resident status in Canada thanks to Bill C-440. Rivera is Canada&#8217;s first female war resister openly speaking about her opposition to the Iraq War. During two weeks of a leave-of-absence from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=349&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto invests in green technology with biogas digesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a streetcar running on orange peels, the traffic lights running on leftover dinner scraps and your home powered by cow manure? One day the city of Toronto hopes to be sustained by renewable energy from the organic waste we throw in our green bins, with the use of biogas digesters. A biogas digester (also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=335&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill 202 takes aim at pornography on public computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Yorkers have mixed feelings regarding a proposed bill dealing with the censorship of sexually explicit material in public schools and libraries. Progressive Conservative MPP Gerry Martiniuk, tabled Bill 202 in the House of Commons requiring all Ontario public schools and libraries to install filtering systems on their computers to block sexually explicit material. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=331&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals maintain control as Hoskins wins St. Paul&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The McGuinty Liberals were able to hold on to their St. Paul’s riding in a by-election on Thursday that was widely presumed to be a close race but ended up in a rout for the opposition Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats for after defeating the Tories with a majority of the vote. Liberal candidate Dr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=317&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flemingdon radio station vies for its spot on the FM dial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after its launch, Flemo City Media continues providing youth with skills that create opportunities for future success, its still lobbying, however, for a space on the FM dial. The radio station started as an idea of Hooley McLaughlin and Alex McDonald of the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) to build a low-power transmitter capable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=242&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groups push government for E.I. reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Good Jobs For All Coalition, in affiliation with the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, held its second of four town hall meetings to discuss fixing the Employment Insurance program, equal pay for equal work initiative and the protection of temporary workers under Bill 139. The Workers Rights in Troubled Times meeting was held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=234&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurants find bill to count calories hard to swallow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agency representing restaurants in Canada thinks a bill to require the posting of calorie content in all Ontario eateries is regressive. On April 9, MPP France Gelinas (NDP) presented a Private Members Bill at Queen’s Park. Bill 156 would amend the Health Protection and Promotion Act, mandating restaurants grossing $5 million or more to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=231&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minorities mostly hunger in ‘food deserts’: Study</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/minorities-mostly-hunger-in-%e2%80%98food-deserts%e2%80%99-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A GTA nutritionist believes that areas of Toronto are what some describe as food wastelands. The theory of areas in Canada not having access to nutritional foods was the main focus of a lecture on April. 3 held at Ryerson University. Dr. Samina Raja addressed a conference on Designing and Planning for Agriculture. She along [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=227&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Toronto-Danforth Riding &#8211; Forever Changing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MATTHEW COHEN   For the past 44 years the NDP has been the political backbone of the Toronto-Danforth riding accumulating per cent of the votes shared this past election. The riding includes the areas of East York, Riverdale, Leslieville and the Leslie Street split.   Toronto-Danforth is mainly a blue-collared residential area with an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=169&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto East General Hospital Celebrates 80 Years of Service</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/114/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Cohen Toronto East General Hospital’s new Oncology/Haematology Clinic has officially opened its doors as part of a redevelopment plan in honour of 80 years of service to the community of East York.   In April of 2007, the Ministry of Health approved the first step in the hospital’s $200 million multi-phased campaign designed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=114&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Access Granted</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/access-granted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MATTHEW COHEN   A major problem that people with disabilities have encountered is being able to integrate and fully function in society like everyone else. This is often a difficult task to do because those with disabilities are disadvantaged in regard to accessibility into the most common places “able-bodied” people take for granted such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=75&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guess Who&#8217;s in town?</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/on-line-vs-print/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Crowds of people young and old, waited in anticipation for Santa, who arrived at the end of the parade proceeded by elaborate floats, marching bands and costumed characters all ringing in the festive season. One of this year biggest attractions was a 30 foot bubble-breathing dragon which left on-lookers in awe of the sheer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=52&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NDP Victory for Toronto-Danforth</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/ndp-victory-for-toronto-danforth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On election night residents of Toronto-Danforth riding spoke loud and clear about who they want to represent them at Queen’s Park, Peter Tabuns. He has been re-elected for his second term as MPP of Toronto–Danforth.   Spirits were high as the growing crowd anticipated Tabuns’ arrival at his campaign party held at the Fox &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=50&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A living testament of gun violence in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/a-living-testament-of-gun-violence-it-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Cohen Out of respect for the privacy of the victim and his family, names have been changed. As Dave Anderson drove through his old neighborhood of Malvern he slowed down at the red light, pointed toward a mall, nodded his head and grinned, ”It’s good to be alive isn’t it?”    For that mall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=45&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TTC burns a hole in student pockets</title>
		<link>http://matthewco.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/ttc-burns-a-hole-in-student-pockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MATTHEW COHEN   Everyday we wake up to start our early morning commute to work or school. Some of us walk, bike, drive, or take the bus. For those of us on campus unable to walk or bike to their campus because of distance or that they’re unable to afford a car, the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewco.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1691117&amp;post=42&amp;subd=matthewco&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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