{"id":2187,"date":"2009-03-09T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2009-03-09T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:44:00","slug":"the-lord-smiles-on-ed-stelmach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Smiles on Ed Stelmach"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"font-family: arial;\"><p>EDMONTON &#8211; Alberta&#8217;s bragging rights as Canada&#8217;s economic engine are fading and Premier Ed Stelmach says people seem to be a little grumpy about it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The latest Conference Board of Canada outlook projects growth of minus 0.5 per cent, the first negative figure the province has seen in nearly a quarter of a century. That&#8217;s in stark contrast to a place that led the country in growth for three years starting in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But Stelmach actually seems a bit relieved that Alberta is no longer No. 1. &#8220;Thank God!&#8221; he said in reaction to the news that Saskatchewan is now in top spot with projected growth of 1.6 per cent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hat Tip &#8211; tGPOitHotW<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8211; Alberta&#8217;s bragging rights as Canada&#8217;s economic engine are fading and Premier Ed Stelmach says people seem to be a little grumpy about it. [&#8230;] The latest Conference Board of Canada outlook projects growth of minus 0.5 per cent, the first negative figure the province has seen in nearly a quarter of a century. [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}