{"id":1360,"date":"2007-04-16T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2007-04-16T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:48:00","slug":"in-the-news-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"

-I have to give a thumbs down to Ontario’s MMP<\/span> referendum<\/a>. I’m not completely against electoral reform, but when you have party leaders writing<\/span> the party list, you have a situation where MPPs<\/span> are being appointed which strikes me as being completely against the principle of having an elected house.<\/p>\n

-Buzz is the Liberals will be releasing TV ads this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-The Hill Times <\/a>has a good run down of the backroom mechanics going on in Parliament regarding key legislative bills and (of course) election timing.<\/p>\n

-For anyone interested in drafting an essay dealing with the impact of technology on modern debate, check out this contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Don Baird had a column in the Herald<\/span> last week talking about the Alberta Liberal Party’s “attack on Stelmach<\/span><\/a>” plan of action.<\/p>\n

-Stories like this<\/a>, would seem to lend some credence to the theory <\/a>that the May-Dion deal is targeted not so much at Peter MacKay<\/span>, but rather at Jack Layton.<\/p>\n

-Elizabeth May mentioned this little old blog on QP<\/span> yesterday. Since she’s let the cat out of the bag, I guess I can announce what has long been rumoured. Liz and I have signed a pact whereby she refers to me as a “funny blogger” and I do not call her decision to run in Central Nova “mind numbingly stupid”. I’m sure this move will be controversial, but we feel it will be mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n

-In one of my all time favourite inadvertent transitions, a CTV<\/span> news story the other days on Canadians being overweight was followed by an add for Tim Horton’s new triple chocolate donuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

-I have to give a thumbs down to Ontario’s MMP referendum. I’m not completely against electoral reform, but when you have party leaders writing the party list, you have a situation where MPPs are being appointed which strikes me as being completely against the principle of having an elected house. -Buzz is the Liberals will […]<\/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-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}