{"id":1552,"date":"2007-10-23T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:19:00","slug":"they-lasted-longer-than-new-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"They Lasted Longer Than New Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Let’s shed a moment of silence for “Canada’s New Government<\/em>” which is, alas, no more<\/a>. After 21 months, the oft-ridiculed slogan is gone.<\/p>\n

It appears the “North Star” is gaining favour <\/a>as the new catch phrase. I guess it’s no surprise that the hockey historian PM would pick a defunct hockey team to brand the country, and I guess we should be grateful he didn’t go with Golden Seals or Mighty Ducks.<\/p>\n

What I find somewhat confusing is that if Canada is the “North Star”, that makes the PM The Little Dipper, <\/em>which is really more of an appropriate nickname for Jack Layton than Harper. Maybe “The Little <\/em>Gipper” <\/em>will catch on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to inconsistencies<\/span> like this, I think The North Star<\/em> will never work as a slogan so I’d like to launch a “New Name for Canada’s New Government<\/strong>” slogan contest. Please submit your suggestions in the comments section below and I will put them to a vote. To get things started, here are a few slogans I’d suggest:<\/p>\n

North North America
Soviet Canuckistan<\/span> (hat tip – Pat Buchanon<\/span><\/em>)
Trudeauland<\/span> (hap tip – Mario Silva<\/em>)
Canada: Can You Hear Me Now?
Canada: Better than Denmark
Canada: A Warm Comfy Welcome Mat With Lots Of Fur
Canada’s “Better than the Chretien-Martin” Government
Canada’s Non-Corrupt Government
Canada’s “We’ve Seen Worse” Government
Canada’s Grrrrrreat<\/span> Government
Canada’s Straight Government
Canada’s Temporary Ad Hoc<\/span> Rainbow Coalition Government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s shed a moment of silence for “Canada’s New Government” which is, alas, no more. After 21 months, the oft-ridiculed slogan is gone. It appears the “North Star” is gaining favour as the new catch phrase. I guess it’s no surprise that the hockey historian PM would pick a defunct hockey team to brand the […]<\/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-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}