{"id":1241,"date":"2007-01-09T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2007-01-09T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T07:42:00","slug":"your-add-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Your Add Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenkinsella.com\/musings.htm\">brouhaha <\/a>in the blogosphere over accusations that Tories (and BC Liberals) have been buying news stories on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourque.com\/\">Bourque<\/a>. The way I see it, politicians buy news stories <em>indirectly<\/em> all the time so I think it&#8217;s great that they&#8217;ve cut out the middle man. Better to spend a couple thousand tax dollars on the link than a couple billion dollars to get news by announcing a GST cut.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, many Liberals no longer consider Bourque a credible news source so I will do my best to provide unbiased news links to stories on this site. Here are a few which caught my eye today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news1130.com\/news\/national\/article.jsp?content=n010613A\">Muslims flock to Harper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webinfo.parl.gc.ca\/MembersOfParliament\/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=105830&#038;Language=E\">Success: Three days in and still no gaffes for Ambrose in new portfolio!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smalldeadanimals.com\/archives\/005271.html#c127352\">Harper increases female Cabinet representation by 17%<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouversun\/story.html?id=37186272-d828-40a6-a9c9-3ec639cbdb51&amp;k=29389\">Tories blow past Liberals in latest poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070108.WACKY08\/TPStory\/National\">Great winter weather here to stay with Tory environmental plan!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winnipegsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2007\/01\/06\/3195766-sun.html\">&#8220;What you have seen is [&#8230;] a shift toward a nation of tree-huggers,&#8221; &#8211; Dion <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulshine.ca\/news\/newsarticle.php?nid=4092\">Dion to step down within a year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a big brouhaha in the blogosphere over accusations that Tories (and BC Liberals) have been buying news stories on Bourque. The way I see it, politicians buy news stories indirectly all the time so I think it&#8217;s great that they&#8217;ve cut out the middle man. Better to spend a couple thousand tax dollars on [&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-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}