{"id":1884,"date":"2008-08-30T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:58:00","slug":"going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen it on any of the big news outlets yet, but National <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Newswatch<\/span> is reporting that former Liberal MP Blair Wilson is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=40234&amp;Itemid=41\">about to become Canada&#8217;s first Green MP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Admittedly<\/span>, he won&#8217;t <em>sit<\/em> as a Green MP. And this little bit of history will only last a few days. And getting an MP who no one else wanted in their caucus isn&#8217;t a sensational catch. But, still, it&#8217;s probably a good move by the Greens &#8211; they grab some headlines and (marginally) improve their case for being included in the debates.<\/p>\n<p>As for the election implications &#8211; well, here are the &#8217;06 results.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Wilson (Lib)  37.5%<br \/>John Weston (CPC)  36.0%<br \/>Judith Wilson (NDP)  20.1%<br \/>Silvaine Zimmermann (Green)  6.2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen it on any of the big news outlets yet, but National Newswatch is reporting that former Liberal MP Blair Wilson is about to become Canada&#8217;s first Green MP. Admittedly, he won&#8217;t sit as a Green MP. And this little bit of history will only last a few days. And getting an MP [&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-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}