{"id":1533,"date":"2007-10-06T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2007-10-06T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:15:00","slug":"air-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Air Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of taxpayer funded globetrotting, a pair of retiring Tory <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">MLAs<\/span> jetted to Germany to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=c7d79f26-e31b-41e9-8fe3-57299a03b2d0&amp;k=87694\">learn how to become better <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">MLAs<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">EDMONTON &#8211; Last Thursday, Gary Mar learned he&#8217;ll become Alberta&#8217;s new agent in Washington and must resign as a Tory <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">MLA<\/span> by late October.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, he jetted to Germany on a publicly funded trip to learn how to become a better legislator.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Taxpayers Federation&#8217;s provincial director laughed when he was told.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A trip on how to become a better <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">MLA<\/span>? I hope one of the suggestions they made was about not wasting money on silly trips designed to teach you how to become a better <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">MLA<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of taxpayer funded globetrotting, a pair of retiring Tory MLAs jetted to Germany to learn how to become better MLAs. EDMONTON &#8211; Last Thursday, Gary Mar learned he&#8217;ll become Alberta&#8217;s new agent in Washington and must resign as a Tory MLA by late October. Three days later, he jetted to Germany [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}