{"id":1804,"date":"2008-06-12T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2008-06-12T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:59:00","slug":"shamelessly-partisan-anti-conservative-news-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Shamelessly Partisan Anti-Conservative News Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. This <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Couillard<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> thing keeps getting more and more intriguing, even two and a half weeks after the Minister&#8217;s resignation. An aid in Michael <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Fortier&#8217;s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/Canada\/article\/440956\">is gone<\/a>, after it&#8217;s <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">revealed<\/span> he dated <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Couillard<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080612.wcouillard12\/BNStory\/National\/home\">accusations of influence peddling<\/a> are flying! Will the fun never end?<\/p>\n<p>2. Does it make me a bad person to be glad that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080612\/natives_poilievre_080612\/20080612?hub=Canada\">Pierre <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Polievre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is in trouble<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>3. Meet the new Judge <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Gomery<\/span><\/span><\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080612.wmulroney0612\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Jeffrey <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Oliphant<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. And it didn&#8217;t take long for the first <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macleans.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/mulroney-inquiry-the-oliphant-in-the-room\/\">conflict of interest<\/a> connection to emerge (I personally don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a big deal that Mulroney appointed him, but I&#8217;ll be curious to see if the opposition\/media latch on to this at all).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211101319807874162\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SFGNCm-3tHI\/AAAAAAAAAcw\/jjvMfbFQUU0\/s320\/oliphaunt.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. This Couillard thing keeps getting more and more intriguing, even two and a half weeks after the Minister&#8217;s resignation. An aid in Michael Fortier&#8217;s office is gone, after it&#8217;s revealed he dated Couillard. And accusations of influence peddling are flying! Will the fun never end? 2. Does it make me a bad person to [&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-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}