{"id":1228,"date":"2006-12-23T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2006-12-23T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T23:59:00","slug":"festivus-news-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Festivus News Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. On the nomination front, there&#8217;s more buzz about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=1d2933b3-6831-4162-b91e-b56ec0bd4cc5\">Trudeau run<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdhstrategies.com\/2006\/12\/liberal-mps-to-step-aside.html\">Christy Clark <\/a>in Vancouver Centre, and the rumour is that Anne McLellan will shortly announce plans <em>not <\/em>to run in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>2. Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20061223.wxliberals23\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Globe article <\/a>has a few interesting nuggets on the Liberals&#8217; election campaign:<br \/>-There&#8217;s talk of a 308 riding strategy<br \/>-Kennedy has a quote on the importance of winning seats in the West<br \/>-Mark Marissen and Nancy Girard, the party&#8217;s Quebec vice-president, will be the campaign co-chairs<br \/>-A focus on local platforms such as the Made in BC and Made in Alberta policy documents we saw during the last election<\/p>\n<p>3. Susan Delacourt has a fun little Christmas Carol in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/article\/164577\">today&#8217;s Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. This <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/s\/capress\/061221\/national\/dion_poll\">Decima poll <\/a>has some interesting snap shots of what Canadians think of the new Liberal leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. On the nomination front, there&#8217;s more buzz about a Trudeau run, Christy Clark in Vancouver Centre, and the rumour is that Anne McLellan will shortly announce plans not to run in the next election. 2. Today&#8217;s Globe article has a few interesting nuggets on the Liberals&#8217; election campaign:-There&#8217;s talk of a 308 riding strategy-Kennedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}