{"id":1311,"date":"2007-03-06T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2007-03-06T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:44:00","slug":"in-the-news-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">tid<\/span>-bits:<\/p>\n<p>First off, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=77382a9a-47f6-4d8f-b3dc-a6245ed60781\">Elizabeth Thompson <\/a>reminding us what Harper was saying about the <em>Quebecois <\/em>circa 1995 (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macleans.ca\/advansis\/?mod=for&#038;act=dip&amp;amp;pid=36099&#038;tid=36099&amp;eid=43&#038;so=1&amp;ps=0&#038;sb=1\">Wells<\/a>). Given that Lawrence Cannon is allowed to change his mind on this topic several time within a span of <em>minutes<\/em>, I&#8217;ll cut Steve some slack and not hold him to what he said 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Moving even further into the history of Stephen Harper, I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canadavotes\/leadersparties\/leaders\/bio_harper.html\">interesting factoid <\/a>in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=6901354&amp;postID=5541224691010948284\">comments section <\/a>of another post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Trudeau was one of the young Stephen Harper&#8217;s earliest political inspirations, in fact. Admiration for the then-prime minister led him to join the Liberal student club a friend founded in the mid-1970s at <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Richview<\/span> Collegiate in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Etobicoke<\/span>, Ont.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in the present, the Liberals are thinking about running some <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">pre<\/span>-writ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070306.ADS06\/TPStory\/TPNational\/Politics\/\">TV ads of their own<\/a>. Not a bad idea, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we&#8217;re number 1! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/canada\/national\/article.jsp?content=20070306_095005_8176\">We&#8217;re number 1<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, Scooter Libby is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/03\/06\/cia.leak\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\">guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few tid-bits: First off, there&#8217;s Elizabeth Thompson reminding us what Harper was saying about the Quebecois circa 1995 (h\/t Wells). Given that Lawrence Cannon is allowed to change his mind on this topic several time within a span of minutes, I&#8217;ll cut Steve some slack and not hold him to what he said 12 [&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-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","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=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}