{"id":1292,"date":"2007-02-20T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2007-02-20T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:20:00","slug":"odds-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Odds & Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. I’ve always found it interesting that the polls which get attention are usually the abnormal ones. Case in found, today’s Gregg poll which has Harper up by 5<\/a>. I think the general trend has the two parties in a dead heat so it’s best to assume that’s where they are.<\/p>\n

2. On the whole “decade of darkness<\/a>” discussion, thanks to SG<\/span> for sending this <\/a>in:<\/p>\n

“I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending<\/span> cuts in general…I do not share a not in by backyard approach<\/span> to government spending reductions.”<\/em><\/p>\n

– Stephen Harper, Hansard<\/span>, May 23, 1995.
(Harper has since roundly criticized spending cuts in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

3. Mad out of budget spending <\/a>on the eve of an election? I’ve heard this story before…<\/p>\n

4. The Hill Times has the weekly election spec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. There’s some talk floating around about Elizabeth May taking on Peter MacKay in Central Nova…with the Libs and Dippers not running candidates. Interesting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. I’ve always found it interesting that the polls which get attention are usually the abnormal ones. Case in found, today’s Gregg poll which has Harper up by 5. I think the general trend has the two parties in a dead heat so it’s best to assume that’s where they are. 2. On the whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}