{"id":2153,"date":"2009-01-30T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2009-01-30T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T00:27:00","slug":"this-week-in-alberta-police-raid-tory-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Alberta &#8211; Police Raid Tory HQ!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly &#8211; but close!<\/p>\n<p>1. It came out a few days ago that the RCMP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/RCMP+probe+searches+truth+behind+withheld+Alberta+Tory+flight+logs\/1217706\/story.html\">raided Alberta&#8217;s Justice Department last July<\/a>, looking for proof of a forged document that had been entered into evidence at an earlier inquiry. Also:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">According to Moore&#8217;s sworn statement, the Department of Infrastructure freedom of information officer who was handling The Journal&#8217;s access to information request told police she was directed not to release the politically embarrassing flight log records until after the election. The warrant also alleges a Department of Infrastructure IT staffer, who tried to discover how the e-mail was altered technically, was ordered to stop his investigations by a senior department bureaucrat.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2. Since I missed &#8220;this week in Alberta&#8221; last week, here&#8217;s another blogger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/alberta-politics-this-week.html\">week-in-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Liberals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/Alberta+Liberals+consider+changing+their+name\/1209882\/story.html\">muse about changing their name<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/name-change-that-worksfor-alberta.html\">Like the idea <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/whats-in-name.html\">not<\/a>, I have a hard time seeing this one get the 75% vote it would need at an ALP convention to pass. But hell, at least it beats the annual 2 hour debate on the price of membership!<\/p>\n<p>4. Earlier this month, David Swann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/story.html?id=be1bc7c0-2f8b-497a-9c5d-3fac7195642b\">shuffled his shadow Cabinet<\/a>, naming Laurie Blakeman deputy leader and Dave Taylor Finance critic. This prompted the <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/looking-outside-dome.html\">super-awesome suggestion<\/a> by Daveberta that the ALP name critics who are not currently in caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. Your critics are already doing the job of 3, due to a small caucus. And naming critics from outside caucus would be a great way to showcase future candidates, and give the party a voice in rural Alberta (where I presume several of the critics would come from).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly &#8211; but close! 1. It came out a few days ago that the RCMP raided Alberta&#8217;s Justice Department last July, looking for proof of a forged document that had been entered into evidence at an earlier inquiry. Also: According to Moore&#8217;s sworn statement, the Department of Infrastructure freedom of information officer who [&hellip;]<\/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\/2153"}],"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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}