<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Through a Single Window</title>
	<link>http://fwperry.net/blog</link>
	<description>Opinion Articles by Francis Perry, Barrington, Nova Scotia</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:12:08 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Dangerous Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call me overly cautious if you like, but while I might spend wait time reading a magazine in a dentist office, an optometrist office, or even the offices of most medical specialists, I will not touch one with a barge pole in the waiting room of a GP. I don’t think I have any unusual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=169</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Cost of G20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadians are divided on many issues of the day, but one thing they seem to have found close to unanimity is the senseless cost of the G20 Summit later this month. Surveys indicate that over eighty percent of Canadians think the cost is far too much for what is largely a three-day meeting of leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=163</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Not Enforceable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a YouTube video at the moment showing a Nova Scotia school principal scuffling with a student and finally dragging him to the office. The student was apparently taking unwanted pictures of a female student, and refused to hand over his cell phone camera, nor listen to any demands of the principal to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=158</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Just Not Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent Times Square bombing attempt, and the police reaction a few days later when a cooler and then a shopping bag were left unattended in the Square brought new worry to Americans. While they tell us that the more stringent security methods employed at airports makes an attack on the level of 9-11 almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=155</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Life Cut Short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments on an online news site, below the story of Massachusetts District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel &#8220;throwing the book&#8221; at nine students for bullying Phoebe Prince to the point of suicide, show the expected public reaction: 90% of the comments are strongly in favor of the various criminal charges against the students, while 10% of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=149</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A growing disconnect . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A columnist in Macleans offered a comment related to the troubles Toyota is having with its runaway cars. While there certainly are real mechanical problems, he felt the more serious issue was related to our not being able to do anything with our cars other than drive them. He had a point. The red flag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=143</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>With Glowing Hearts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a good time watching the Vancouver Winter Olympics. A lot of exciting competitions, many inspiring athletes, a thousand and one stories. Often during the competitions, in the early morning hours when CTV was repeating the events of the day before, I would switch over to NBC&#8217;s American coverage. It was good to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=139</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Own the Podium???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an avid Olympics watcher, summer or winter, but I&#8217;m having trouble. As cute as Nikki Yanofski is, and as beautiful as the Olympic song may be, I&#8217;m starting to struggle with Believing. We&#8217;ve been the source of humor on the American talk shows for our $113 million &#8220;Own the Podium&#8221; campaign&#8211; how un-Canadian of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=131</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Think Rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, Bill Gates announced a long-term gift for funding childhood vaccines. Some people make headlines giving a hundred thousand dollars&#8211; a considerable sum&#8211; or on rare occasions by presenting a full million dollars. Far more impressive, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave what might be the largest philanthropic donation in history: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=125</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Crisis Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake crisis in Haiti shocks us with every news report. Tens of thousands are dead at this point, and even more tragic is that thousands more may be living, buried under fallen buildings, not to be rescued in time. The attempts at rescue and relief are impressive, though hampered still by trying to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fwperry.net/blog/?p=119</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
