{"id":1355,"date":"2007-04-09T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2007-04-09T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:54:00","slug":"they-work-hard-for-their-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"They work hard for their money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the provincial PCs have been cashing their <a href=\"http:\/\/calsun.canoe.ca\/News\/Alberta\/2007\/04\/07\/3943329-sun.html\">bonus cheques <\/a>to the tune of one million dollars over the past year. I don&#8217;t have a problem with <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">MLAs<\/span> getting paid more for doing extra work but when it&#8217;s nearly doubling their salary and the &#8220;work&#8221; being done requires air quotes to describe it? I dunno&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>In other News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-I know <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">SES<\/span> has become the new oracle for many <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">bloggers<\/span> but if we&#8217;re going to toss aside Angus Reid for being ridiculously low, we need to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">concede<\/span> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesresearch.com\/library\/polls\/POLNAT-S07-T229.pdf\">these numbers <\/a>do seem a bit more favourable for the grits than the other polls out there right now. That&#8217;s not to say they aren&#8217;t encouraging or even that the true numbers lie outside of the margin of error, but I&#8217;d want to see a few more polls confirming this before concluding that we&#8217;re back to a statistical tie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daifallah.com\/2007\/04\/one-last-qubec-election-post.htm\">Adam <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Daifallah<\/span> <\/a>has an interesting take on the Quebec election results.<\/p>\n<p>-I&#8217;m telling you, when I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070409.wufoo0409\/BNStory\/Front\/home\">stories like this<\/a>, I&#8217;m more convinced than ever that Paul <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Hellyer<\/span> and the Canadian Action Party are poised for a breakthrough next election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070409.wcharterpoll09\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Two thirds of Canadians <\/a>favour electing judges which is absolutely shocking considering what a dumb idea that is. I&#8217;m pretty sure that if they reflecting on it for a bit, most would change their opinion quickly.<\/p>\n<p>-More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070409.wxclimate09\/BNStory\/GlobeSportsBaseball\/\">doom and gloom <\/a>environmental reports<\/p>\n<p>-Finally, my first round picks: Sabers, Devils, Rangers, Sens, Flames, Ducks, Sharks, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Canucks<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the provincial PCs have been cashing their bonus cheques to the tune of one million dollars over the past year. I don&#8217;t have a problem with MLAs getting paid more for doing extra work but when it&#8217;s nearly doubling their salary and the &#8220;work&#8221; being done requires air quotes to describe it? I dunno&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/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\/1355"}],"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=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}