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		<title>Recount no help as Borys Wrzesnewskyj loses seat (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2011/05/24/recount-no-help-as-borys-wrzesnewskyj-loses-seat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edit: I&#8217;ve updated this post using a much more detailed Toronto Star article as opposed to the smaller CBC one I posted earlier. In a nail biter that was decided by only 26 votes before and after the recount, Borys Wrzesnewskyj lost his seat and strong Liberal riding of Etobicoke Centre to Conservative Ted Opitz. Update: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Orange Revolution to Banana Republic (Videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few quick videos to watch to start out your work week. The first is from PBS NewsHour: Nearly 8 Years After the &#8216;Orange Revolution,&#8217; Ukraine Runs Into Reversals and the other from Maidan: Ukraine. A Banana Republic Forever?! (about Members of Parliament who&#8217;s votes are submitted for them along party lines while in absentia). Enjoy! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Michael Ignatieff and sadly, Borys Wrzesnewskyj</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 02:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, the Conservatives reached their majority last night while the Liberals got their worst government in their history (since Confederation): 3rd place behind the NDP. With that, Michael Ignatieff announced today he has stepped down as leader of the Liberal party, after losing his Etobicoke-Lakeshore seat he was parachuted into back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives calling for &#8216;national folklore costumes&#8217; at rallies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Conservative MP Jason Kenney was caught using ministerial letterhead to raise money by targeting areas for the &#8216;ethnic vote&#8217;, now Etobicoke-Centre Tory&#8217;s campaign staffers for Tim Opitz have been e-mailing: &#8220;Do you have any cultural groups that would like to participate by having someone at the event in an ethnic costume? We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does Wikileaks know about the Orange Revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As WikiLeaks begins releasing over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables this week, out of the 2,000 that originated out of Canada there’s at least one in the pile that deals with the ‘Canadian Ukrainian Community’ concerning the Orange Revolution: Date: December 07, 2004 Source: Embassy Ottawa Address: 490 Sussex Drive Ottawa, K1P 5T1 Tags: PGOV, PREL, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine&#8217;s local elections &#8216;did not meet standards for openness and fairness&#8217; &#8211; US Dept. of State</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Department of State today slammed Ukraine’s local elections that were held last Sunday for being less free and open than in previous elections and the quality of these elections had regressed: Preliminary reports from election monitors suggest that Ukraine’s October 31 local elections did not meet standards for openness and fairness set by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper meets Yanukovych in Ukraine: Asks about Holodomor &amp; human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/10/25/harper-meets-yanukovych-in-ukraine-asks-about-holodomor-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who flew into Kyiv today to meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and impressively asked tough questions regarding the Holodomor genocide and the pro-Russian regime’s crackdown on human rights: Harper also focused on human rights issues during the meeting and made clear reference to an estimated 10 million deaths at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to arrive in Ukraine on Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/10/21/canadian-prime-minister-stephen-harper-to-arrive-in-ukraine-on-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/10/21/canadian-prime-minister-stephen-harper-to-arrive-in-ukraine-on-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Harper arrived Monday and asked Yanukovych some serious questions!&#160; The Canadian government has announced that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will travel to Ukraine from October 25 to 26: The Prime Minister will also travel to Ukraine at the invitation of President Viktor Yanukovych.&#160; “I look forward to my meetings with President Yanukovych and others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukrainian Canadian politician Vera Danyluk passes away</title>
		<link>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/10/18/ukrainian-canadian-politician-vera-danyluk-passes-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/10/18/ukrainian-canadian-politician-vera-danyluk-passes-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTREAL &#8211; She was a small-town mayor who reached the top of local municipal politics but never seemed overawed by any of it. She contemplated the idea of entering provincial politics, but decided against it after her husband worried the National Assembly in Quebec City would too often keep her away from their home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former UCC Alberta President, ex-MLA Dave Broda dies in car crash (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/06/15/former-ucc-alberta-president-ex-mla-dave-broda-dies-in-car-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukrcdn.com/2010/06/15/former-ucc-alberta-president-ex-mla-dave-broda-dies-in-car-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Edmonton Journal: Former Redwater MLA Dave Broda was killed in a road accident Sunday night. … It is known that Broda attended a barbecue dinner near Mundare earlier Sunday evening. The event was sponsored by the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce. &#34;He was significantly involved in his community in many ways. He was a [...]]]></description>
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