{"id":2185,"date":"2009-03-08T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2009-03-08T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:56:00","slug":"from-hampton-to-horwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"From Hampton to Horwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one Ontario leadership race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/news\/Tory+leader+resigns+after+bylelection+loss\/1361852\/story.html\">begins<\/a>, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090307.wNDPconvention0703\/BNStory\/National\/home\">ends<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: arial;\"><p>HAMILTON \u2014 Andrea Horwath has been elected the new Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>She easily prevailed Saturday night on the third ballot of a leadership convention, taking 60.4 per cent of the vote. Her challenger, Peter Tabuns, won 39.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Prue and Gilles Bisson had earlier been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Horwath is the first woman to lead the Ontario NDP and only the second female leader of a major party in provincial history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one Ontario leadership race begins, another ends: HAMILTON \u2014 Andrea Horwath has been elected the new Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. She easily prevailed Saturday night on the third ballot of a leadership convention, taking 60.4 per cent of the vote. Her challenger, Peter Tabuns, won 39.6 per cent. Michael Prue and [&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\/2185"}],"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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}