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	<title>Needless to Say</title>
	<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com</link>
	<description>A few (mostly needless) words from Tim Falconer</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Middle-aged teenager picks top albums of the year</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=292</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Play it Loud</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Fittingly, a great decade of music ended with a great year of music. I&#8217;ve selected only nine albums here, not because &#8220;Top Nine of 09&#8243; has a pleasant ring to it, but because picking a tenth just became too hard (and a twelve-way tie for tenth seemed silly). Besides, I always regret my final choices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocker: Expert accuses journalist of oversimplification</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=291</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>That Good Night</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Anita Ho, a bioethics professor at the University of British Columbia&#8217;s Centre for Applied Ethics, reviewed That Good Night in the October 2009 issue of the Literary Review of Canada. It&#8217;s a thoughtful essay and not really a bad review at all &#8212; in fact, it may even make some LRC subscribers want to read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalize it</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=290</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>That Good Night</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The special &#8220;Legalize Everything&#8221; issue of This Magazine is now out. It includes provocative pieces on legalizing hate speech, music piracy, drugs and raw milk &#8212; and my short essay on legalizing assisted suicide. Please consider buying the magazine at your favourite newsstand, but you can also read my argument online (there&#8217;s also a poll, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers finally paying attention to assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=289</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>That Good Night</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Parliament will soon vote on Bill C-384, Bloq Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde&#8217;s private member&#8217;s bill to legalize assisted suicide. So I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that Canada&#8217;s national newspapers are finally paying attention to the issue. Today, The Globe and Mail ran an excellent op-ed piece in favour of assisted suicide by Arthur Shafer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh private member&#8217;s bill on euthanasia in 18 years</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=288</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>That Good Night</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Francine Lalonde&#8217;s private member&#8217;s bill to legalize assisted suicide is the seventh such bill before the House of Commons in the last 18 years, according to this excellent column called &#8220;Ottawa can&#8217;t ignore euthanasia debate forever&#8221; by Don Martin. Well worth reading.

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		<title>Ian Brown&#8217;s The Boy in the Moon</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=287</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>My Little Thoughts</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ian Brown is probably the finest non-fiction writer in the country and his new book, The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#8217;s Search for His Disabled Son, is fabulous. Don&#8217;t let the subject matter fool you into thinking this is a grim read. Sure, it is, in places, sad, and occasionally angry, and always unflinching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Fiction</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=286</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Drive</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I love fiction, and read as much of it as I can, but I realize some people can&#8217;t get into it. That&#8217;s why I wasn&#8217;t surprised to learn that the Mount Pleasant branch of the Toronto Public Library has a No Fiction group. I was surprised &#8212; but also delighted &#8212; to receive an invitation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The war between drivers, cyclists and pedestrians on our streets</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=285</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Drive</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I will be on CIUT&#8217;s Take 5 this morning to talk about the war between drivers, cyclists and pedestrians on our streets. CIUT is at 89.5 on the FM dial or you can listen on the station&#8217;s website. I will be on about 9:40.

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		<title>Parking for bicycles</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=284</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Drive</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	When employers provide &#8212; and pay for &#8212; guaranteed parking spots, employees are more likely to drive to work. That&#8217;s obvious and the reason Donald Shoup came up with the idea for the parking cash-out law adopted by California (read about it in this excerpt from DRIVE that ran in the Toronto Star). Now Tom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not just density, we need density, diversity and design</title>
		<link>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=283</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Drive</category>
		<guid>http://needlesstosay.timfalconer.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I recommend reading this blog post &#8212; called &#8220;Smart growth must become more demanding, more community-oriented, and greener (literally)&#8221; &#8212; from Kaid Benfield, the director of the Smart Growth Program in Washington, DC. He makes the case, with photos, that density is not enough, we need to insist on density, diversity and design. &#8220;We in [...]]]></description>
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