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		<title>Oh Canada!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the 2010 edition of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver came to a close yesterday hot on the heels of a Canadian win in the hockey final against the United States earning us probably the only gold medal most Canadians &#8230; <a href="http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/2010/03/01/oh-canada/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the 2010 edition of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver came to a close yesterday hot on the heels of a Canadian win in the hockey final against the United States earning us probably the only gold medal most Canadians cared about.</p>
<p>I was busily migrating Kari&#8217;s email and wasn&#8217;t watching the game with my full attention but every time a goal was scored I knew about it. As the clock ticked down the final minute I decided to give the game my undivided attention and, of course, the Americans scored to tie up the game <img src='http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  . At this point I figured it might be best if I didn&#8217;t watch the game anymore. Thankfully a few minutes later our boys got the job done.</p>
<p>These Winter Olympic games proved to be the best showing ever for Canada. We earned 14 gold medals, setting the record for the number of gold medals earned by a single nation during the Winter Olympics, along with 7 silver and 5 bronze. Only the US and Germany managed to snag more medals than Canada with 37 (9 gold/15 silver/13 bronze) and 30 (10 gold/13 silver/7 bronze) medals respectively but I think it&#8217;s safe to say that our medals were of better quality <img src='http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
<p>My Facebook news feed is full of people proclaiming that they&#8217;re proud to be Canadian which isn&#8217;t something that people normally do. Instead it&#8217;s usually full of people proclaiming how awesome it is to be Italian or Portuguese. I must say that this is a nice change since instead of being at each others throats we&#8217;re all rooting for the same team.  So until the 2010 FIFA World Cup&#8230; go Canada!</p>
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		<title>Earth Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 31st, 2007 the people of Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour and dubbed it Earth Hour . So today marked the first time this event was acknowledged or carried out globally. Toronto took part of &#8230; <a href="http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/2008/03/29/earth-hour/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On March 31st, 2007 the people of Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour and dubbed it <a title="Earth Hour Homepage" href="http://www.earthhour.org" target="_blank">Earth Hour</a> . So today marked the first time this event was acknowledged or carried out globally. Toronto took part of course along with other cities from around the globe. Google <a title="Google's Earth Hour Page" href="http://www.google.ca/intl/en/earthhour/" target="_blank">drew attention</a> to the cause as well and even made their normally white homepage all black for the day. They of course covered their butts by saying that they are aware that a black homepage wouldn&#8217;t actually reduce world wide power usage like some people surmised as this was later proven false and it instead just a gesture to raise awareness of the cause. Anyway, I turned the lights out here. Anyone that knows me knows that try to be energy conscious in all of my actions. Sadly everyone takes a &#8220;my little contribution doesn&#8217;t really count for anything&#8221; attitude when it really does. It&#8217;s not just when it comes to climate change, which can be debated backwards and forwards, but more when it comes to any kind of change.</p>
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