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	<title>Canada&#039;s Champions of Change</title>
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		<title>The Feel-Good Factor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A volunteer investment isn’t just big gains, it’s big buzz]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2011/02/11/the-feel-good-factor/</link>
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		<title>And the winners are&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 6 months, more than 19,000 nominations it comes down to these heroic two. Canada's Champions of Change are…
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		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2011/02/09/and-the-winners-are/</link>
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		<title>The Dawn of a Volunteer Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian volunteerism dates back to the country's birth, making philanthropy as Canadian a trait as our, sorry, aptitude for apology. ]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2011/02/08/the-dawn-of-a-volunteer-nation-2/</link>
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		<title>Canada’s Volunteers Speak Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What motivates Canadians to give back? What do they want to get from the experience?]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/12/08/canada%e2%80%99s-volunteers-speak-out/</link>
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		<title>Man&#8217;s best friend strikes again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can barely take my golden retriever, Lily, for a walk down the street without someone stopping to ask if they can pat her. ]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/mans-best-friend-strikes-again/</link>
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		<title>Bob Davisson</title>
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Building schools and hope in Haiti
It&#8217;s impossible not to marvel at the optimism in Bob Davisson’s voice when he speaks about Haiti, whose capital, Port-au-Prince, was left in ruins after last January’s earthquake. “People ask me, ‘How are things in Haiti?’ And I say, ‘I see progress!’” Hard not to marvel because where others see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/champion-of-education/</link>
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		<title>Weldetinsae Yemane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent immigrant helps build homes for those who need them
Weldetinsae Yemane is no stranger to hardship. Or hunger. Or homelessness. He’s had more than his share of all. Born in Eritrea, “Welde” (as his Canadian friends call him) was deported, by Ethiopia, to Sudan during a period of violent conflict. The Sudanese authorities shipped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/weldetinsae-yemane/</link>
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		<title>Jorge de Guzman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A martial arts expert helps children in the Phillippines ward off sexual abuse
After years of working to prevent sex abuse of children, Jorge de Guzman says he’s no closer to understanding why it’s so rampant. “I’m not a moralist, but I see insanity in it.” Yet he refuses to feel powerless, and has now made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/jorge-de-guzman/</link>
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		<title>Eliza Olson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading the fight to save one of North America&#8217;s largest peat lands 

As a child, Eliza Olson witnessed the destruction of a local pond. A family of ducks was displaced—a chilling experience that would one day lead to a passion to preserve the country’s wetlands.  In 1988, Olson learned that part of the bog near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/champion-of-the-wetlands/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Schnurr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A maritime native helps to restore the ecological world, one tree at a time
Jeff Schnurr doesn’t believe in fate (as an activist he finds the concept of inevitability lame, literally), but he does believe in coincidence. Specifically, the right-place-at-the-right-time phenomenon.
It was quite by accident that the career tree planter found himself on Pemba, a tiny, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://change.outpostmagazine.com/2010/11/16/champion-of-the-forest/</link>
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