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		<title>When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody fear?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["A tree about a foot in diameter had snapped off, just missing a car and driver." ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heatherconnblogs.com/creek-car-accident/</link>
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		<title>Utah needs to keep cougar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually support politically correct language but the recent decision by a Utah school district to forego the use of &#8220;cougar&#8221; as a mascot is too much. The district, based in Salt Lake City, thought that using a cougar mascot for a new high school would suggest unwanted connotations with the word&#8217;s other meaning: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver and the Northern Gateway hearings: arrogance trumps democratic process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During this first week of hearings regarding the Northern Gateway project in British Columbia, I won&#8217;t reiterate all of the passionate discourse and minutiae that have been shared regarding the oil pipeline that Enbridge wants to build. &#160; The disdainful comments made by Joe Oliver, Canada&#8217;s federal minister of natural resources, in his open letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spark of spiritual travel: find new connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[                                                                                       &#8212; photos by Lois Brassart How does spiritual travel differ from regular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heatherconnblogs.com/spiritual-trave/</link>
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		<title>Still the Earth remains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I wrote the following  for a local chapbook that didn&#8217;t end up getting published and have decided to share it here instead. &#160; In my dream, you were the same whale that I saw: that message was clear. A whale in a night vision, some sources say, helps the dreamer overcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s admiration to the brave souls in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the start of this new year, after we in the west have enjoyed restful holidays with loved ones, how many of us are thinking of the plight of those in Syria? &#160; A few nights ago, my husband and I watched disturbing footage, posted on YouTube and shown on CNN, of two police officers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labyrinth provides solace during winter solstice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; iPhone photos by Heather Conn The candle glow in circles fell, arcing row upon row, in lines of light, stillness in the dark. This week,  I walked the indoor labyrinth, created temporarily to mark the winter solstice, at the Creekside Community Centre in Vancouver, BC. It was one of five such labyrinths installed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Northern Gateway Project: Which conversation of &#8220;facts&#8221; will you join?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, The Vancouver Sun ran in multiple papers a three-quarter-page ad from Enbridge, the U.S. corporation behind the Northern Gateway project. Enbridge plans to build 1,200 kilometres of pipeline across northern B.C. from Alberta’s Tar Sands project to Kitimat on the coast. This would end British Columbia’s current moratorium on related tanker traffic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil and asbestos: Canada&#8217;s stance a global embarrassment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada is an environmental embarrassment now that it’s become the first country to renounce the Kyoto Protocol against global warming. As comedian Stephen Colbert said recently, our country will soon be known as “the Great Grey North.” And why? Because prime minister Stephen Harper, an entrenched lover of Canadian crude, is determined to expand Alberta’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heatherconnblogs.com/oil-and-asbestos/</link>
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		<title>Grace, meet Gracie: A surprise encounter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A white-haired woman in her eighties looked up from her magazine, smiled, and returned to her reading when I walked into a Vancouver, BC waiting room this week before my dental surgery. She was stylishly dressed in a black-and-grey ensemble with a curlicue-shaped white scarf. “Are you who I think you are?” I asked her. [...]]]></description>
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