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		<title>Open Letter to Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s CEO and Board of Directors‏</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10 May 2013 we sent an Open Letter to Taekwondo Canada (TC)&#8217;s CEO and Directors, all but two as we could not find an e-mail address for one Director at Large and TC&#8217;s e-mail address for one of the Officers failed to deliver the message. We also included in the distribution list the Presidents [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=3226&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Encore!&#8217;s &#8216;Team Canada&#8217; for the 2013 World Championships</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first two days of the 2013 Canada Open were for many Canadian taekwondo athletes the last chance to earn necessary ranking points to secure a spot on Team Canada for the 2013 WTF World Taekwondo Championships taking place in Puebla, Mexico (July 14-21). According to Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) selection criteria (of 13-11-2012) for this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=3154&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s &#8220;2013 Canada Open&#8221; by the Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of 22 April 2013, Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) deadline for registrations for the 2013 Canada Open, 885 competitors (1,041 entries) in the general divisions, only 3 competitors (3 entries; 2 from Canada and 1 from Ghana) in the Para/AWAD divisions, and 171 (+1 in Para/AWAD) coaches have registered for the event. Scheduled participation in forms or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=3050&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s 2013-16 Bid Package: What&#8217;s with the Secrecy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2012, Taekwondo Canada (TC) posted its 2013-2016 bid package for national and international events, however access to that information for the casual visitor of the website is not possible without a password. Back then, we questioned the decision to restrict access to that information and wondered if TC&#8217;s voting member organizations (VMOs) have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2940&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s Board Meeting of Feb. 10, 2013–First in 6 Months?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just today, Taekwondo Canada (TC) posted new Board of Director (BOD) meeting minutes, they are for a meeting that took place on 10 February 2013. In absolute, this is good news as the last minutes posted were for an August 2012 meeting. But wait! The BOD did not meet since 28 August 2012? Then how [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2856&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada 2.0: A Preamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the evolution of taekwondo in Canada and Taekwondo Canada (TC) itself, the uninitiated may be left with the impression that the pre-2009 era was the &#8220;lesser&#8221; version 0.x of TC that since then was upgraded to the &#8220;improved&#8221; version 1.x. Without defending TC&#8217;s pre-2009 Board, we disagree with such depiction: (i) the cutoff [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2745&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay&#039;n Play saga continues.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Coach Ilya's blog: A rebuttal from the Pacific Coast Section chair, front page of Fencing.net: Gary Zeiss, Chair of the Pacific Coast Section, send in this opinion letter regarding the USFA's "Stay and Play" program. In this letter, Mr. Zeiss puts forward his positions against the new USFA tournament housing program. July 25, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2720&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Taekwondo Canada Open–&#8221;Stay-to-Play&#8221; or more &#8220;Pay-to-Play&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, 19 March 2013, Taekwondo Canada (TC) posted on its website an information package for the upcoming 2013 Canada Open. Among other information that package has a Participant Agreement that every participant is required to agree to in order to register for the event. In that agreement &#8220;Condition #7&#8243; caught our attention as well as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2673&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Survival Guide for Taekwondo Clubs in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our view, one of the major reasons Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) membership is a failure is that it comes with so many unnecessary strings attached to it that it makes us wonder if the policy&#8217;s primary objective is (or should be) to recruit members or to just control them and their businesses! If a private club [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2483&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Supermaster Plan!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: Any depiction of characters is purely fictitious, any resemblance is coincidental, reality may be more traumatizing. Taekwondo Encore! Filed under: Canada, Governance, Sport Tagged: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland/Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Territories<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2473&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Must-Do To-Do List for Taekwondo Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Updated May 8, 2013) Below is a list of issues that in our view Taekwondo Canada (TC) needs to address in order to become a more credible and convincing organization: Post online the dates of Board of Directors (BOD) meetings as soon as they are scheduled (not required by the Bylaws/policies but builds trust), once [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2227&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada–State of the Membership 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow up on the data summary of Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) membership that we did about 5 months ago, unfortunately even with the rush to register for the national events of early January 2013, there are no improvements. In fact, the number of colour belt members dropped by 26 (-4.38%) and the number [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2354&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s Us-and-Them Approach to the Application of Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may remember that not long ago, Taekwondo Canada (TC) issued a sanction against the president of the Nova Scotia Tae Kwon Do Association (NSTKDA) and later on a sanction against the 2nd Vice President of the Ontario Taekwondo Association (OTA); according to TC, both for essentially &#8220;violations&#8221; of the &#8216;Status Recognition and Representation of Credentials Policy&#8217; (&#8216;Credentials [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2170&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is (still) no Conflict of Interest?!</title>
		<link>https://tkdencore.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/there-is-still-no-conflict-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 January 2013, Taekwondo Canada (TC) announced the nomination of&#160;3 Directors at Large (DaL), positions that have been previously&#160;vacated.&#160;Two of the new DaLs are from Ontario and the third is from Northwest Territories (NWT). This could have been a golden opportunity for TC to be&#160;more inclusive of the provinces that&#160;it is so far failing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2102&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Respect Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from : What is respect? This is a word that gets mentioned a lot in the martial arts world and quite often what is taught is manners.    Let’s look go to the dictionary and look at the difference between respect and manners.  Manners: “social behavior, especially in terms of what is considered correct or unacceptable.”  We've all been [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2130&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo without Politicking? See no Evil, Speak no Evil, Hear no Evil!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear taekwondoists saying that they are not interested in taekwondo politics. You may hear that from colour/black belt holders of all levels, you may hear that from various organizations&#8217; voting as well as non-voting members, and surprisingly enough you may also hear that from directors and committee members of taekwondo organizations. When one says politics, two kinds of politicking come [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=2066&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Athlete Council Canada! A Kitten or a Lion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first reference by Taekwondo Canada (TC) to the Taekwondo Athlete Council Canada (TACC) is found in the minutes of TC&#8217;s Board Meeting of 22 September 2011, back then it was referred to as the Council of National Taekwondo Athletes. It was through some magic and convoluted &#8220;logic&#8221; that only TC&#8217;s Board masters that TACC [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1705&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: If any, who would you like to see resign from Taekwondo Canada?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Taekwondo Encore! we are starting a new initiative to gather our readers&#8217; opinions through polls and surveys. The current poll runs through December 31, 2012 (GMT+0). Although the poll is anonymous, duplicate votes are not permitted; a mechanism is in place to enforce that as much as possible. Question 1: Do you want to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1898&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict of Interest, part &#8220;deux&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As follow-up to our earlier post on conflict of interest, we provide a schematic of the links between individuals within Taekwondo Canada (TC) and across organizations. From this schematic it is obvious that there is a strong overlap between TC and Edmonton, Alberta. Indeed, many individuals, no less than 5 directors, from the current (and previous) Board [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1825&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict of Interest – Comments on Taewondo Canada&#8217;s October 2012 Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 October 2012 Taekwondo Canada (TC) published an issue of its newsletter, of particular interest to us is a section titled Conflict of Interest: Conflict of Interest The situation of a corporate officer whose private interests might benefit from his or her public actions or influence. This short article is provided in the interests [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1503&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video Replay at Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s 2012 AGM!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the recent advances witnessed in taekwondo sparring competitions, Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) last Annual General Meeting (AGM) of 15 September 2012 was video taped! We do not know what prompted this, but what is sure is that a video camera (even if turned off) keeps everyone at a meeting on their best behaviour&#8230;with the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Gillis Discusses Tae Kwon Do and &#8220;A Killing Art&#8221; with Kung Fu Tea.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Gillis Discusses Tae Kwon Do and &#8220;A Killing Art&#8221; with Kung Fu Tea.. Filed under: Governance, Martial Art, Sport, World Tagged: Kukkiwon, WTF<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1536&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Gillis Takes on a “Killing Art.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Gillis Takes on a “Killing Art.&#8221;. Filed under: Governance, Martial Art, Sport, World Tagged: Kukkiwon, WTF<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1534&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo in Nova Scotia&#8230;Enter the &#8220;Press&#8221;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have followed recent taekwondo developments in Canada, you probably know about the situation in Nova Scotia. The outline of what took place so far is as follows: In May 2012, by Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) decision, the Nova Scotia TaeKwonDo Association (NSTKDA) has ceased to be member organization of TC. In June 2012, through an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1368&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo (Un)Development through Mom &amp; Pop Societies and Obscure Councils</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we last wrote on the taekwondo societies that appeared in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland and Labrador nothing has changed as far as their memberships are concerned, each still lists one club run by a Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s (TC) director, and their status of &#8216;Mom &#38; Pop&#8217; societies (as described by one reader of this blog) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1371&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Things Canadian Taekwondo Organizations do to Lose the Trust of their Members!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although it is not difficult to find in Canadian taekwondo trust-based relationships between individuals, in a group, a dojang, or between instructors and students; unfortunately distrust is the norm rather than the exception when it comes to organizations. Think of every situation you encountered were directors of a Canadian taekwondo organization/association acted knowingly unethically just because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1311&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nova Scotia TaeKwonDo Association is in&#8230;for now at least!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 25 August 2012, Taekwondo Canada (TC) posted its summary of the Nova Scotia TaeKwondo Association (NSTKDA) appeal of TC&#8217;s decision on its membership status, however the Appeal Panel&#8217;s Order is considerably more revealing, particularly the following passages: 84. It also needs to be said that of the various organizations that were affected by the membership review while many [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1255&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada Membership Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post we indicated that Taekwondo Canada (TC) seems to be facing challenges in implementing its membership program with clubs and organizations. Those challenges become even more obvious if one looks into TC&#8217;s Colour Belts Registry and Kukkiwon Database. As of 1 Sept. 2012, TC&#8217;s Colour Belts Registry shows 593 members and its Kukkiwon Database shows 974 black belts, that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=1199&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taekwondo Canada&#8217;s Member Organizations&#8211;Are there any?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, Taekwondo Canada (TC) did not publish a nominative list of its current member organizations, their categories, and the number of votes assigned to each. The notice for the 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for 15 September 2012 is dated 16 August 2012 and it did not include a list of voting members. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=938&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another new Society: Provincial Taekwondo Society of Newfoundland and Labrador (PTSNL)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have tried recently to check the latest taekwondo news in Newfoundland and Labrador by visiting the homepage of the Newfoundland and Labrador WTF Tae Kwon Do Association (NLTKDA), then you must have noticed that a new society is occupying that space: the Provincial Taekwondo Society of Newfoundland and Labrador (PTSNL), an unoriginal new name (not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tkdencore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=37280756&#038;post=806&#038;subd=tkdencore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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