{"id":2036,"date":"2008-11-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2008-11-19T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:17:00","slug":"we-interupt-this-liberal-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"We Interupt this Liberal Leadership Race…"},"content":{"rendered":"
…to bring you the following news stories – now (mostly) leadership news free!<\/p>\n

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1. Peter Miliken pulled off a dramatic 5th ballot victory in the Race for Kingmere<\/a>. Although I thought he might lose this time, can you really blame the children for not electing a teacher on a promise to \u201cget tough\u201d with them when they misbehave?<\/p>\n

2. In less exciting parliamentary news, today was throne speech day<\/a>. Given the lack of specifics, there’s rarely much in a throne speech to get too excited or too angry about – I would however like to express some concern<\/em> over the promise for \u201ca charter of open federalism\u201d.<\/p>\n

3. For those worried the end of the US election would make Nate Silver any less awesome, fear not! Check out this interview on 538 <\/a>with John Ziegler on an Obama “push poll” Zogby ran. Warning – it is not satire, it is the actual interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. And then there were (still) three. Martin Cauchon is out of the race for Liberal leadership<\/a> – that’s a shame, Cauchon would have brought a lot to this race.<\/p>\n

5. Jean Charest now leads 44% to 33%<\/a> in Quebec. For a reference point, in 2003, Charest led the popular vote 46% to 33% to 18%, and the seats broke down 76-45-4. So, for the moment, it looks like the man is in majority government territory.<\/p>\n

6. The new seating chart for the HoC is out and…look who wound up as seat-mates! How long before someone declares a thumb war?<\/div>\n

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…to bring you the following news stories – now (mostly) leadership news free! 1. Peter Miliken pulled off a dramatic 5th ballot victory in the Race for Kingmere. Although I thought he might lose this time, can you really blame the children for not electing a teacher on a promise to \u201cget tough\u201d with them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}