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		<title>Peter MacKay Low-Balled Libya Costs, Government Report Reveals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defence Minister Peter MacKay dramatically underestimated the cost of last year’s Libya intervention, incremental cost figures released with the DND 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities show.]]></description>
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		<title>Former Air Force CF-18 Fleet Manager Opposed to F-35 Plan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government may not be making the correct choice by replacing Canada’s CF-18 fleet with the F-35, warned the Royal Canadian Air Force’s former CF-18 fleet manager at a press conference in Ottawa.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Byers op-ed: You can&#8217;t replace real icebreakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Byers, Special to the Globe and Mail, March 27, 2012 A rugged little ship adorns the back of the new $50 bill that the Bank of Canada began circulating Monday. But, in an ironic twist of fate, the red and white CCGS Amundsen no longer sails the Arctic seas. The 98-metre icebreaker was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staples and Naqi op-ed: How will the NDP leadership race affect Canada&#8217;s military?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many defence watchers hope the NDP will be much clearer on national defence than it has been in the past.]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Federal Budget 2012 calls for greater social program spending and reductions in defence spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the 2012 Federal Budget only two weeks away,  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), in coordination with the Rideau Institute and more than 30 other Canadian civil society organizations,  has offered a different vision for Canada&#8217;s future. Titled A Budget for the Rest of Us, the 2012 Alternative Federal Budget provides a road [...]]]></description>
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