{"id":2345,"date":"2009-07-22T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2009-07-22T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T03:23:00","slug":"random-wednesday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Random Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) I&#8217;ll give <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Flaherty<\/span> props for the home <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">reno<\/span> tax credit in this year&#8217;s budget &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/home-renos-lead-retail-rebound\/article1226913\/\">it seems to be having the desired effect<\/a>. As for the Tories&#8217; festival funding&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/07\/22\/liesl-pack-little-farahilde-and-the-cellos-were-going-to-ottawa\/\">not so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) Notice how it IS Tony Clement now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/conservatives-reject-funding-for-montreal-gay-festival\/article1226490\/\">making the funding decisions<\/a>. Looks like Brad <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Trost<\/span> may have been right about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/07\/08\/pride-just-keeps-on-goeth-ing-huh-diane-ablonczy-vs-the-anonymous-conservative-source-chorus\/\"><span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Ablonczy<\/span> demotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3) The <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/g8-movie.html\">suggestion<\/a> to cast Stephen Baldwin as Stephen Harper in the fictional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-07-08\/g-8-the-movie\/?cid=hp:featureline\">G8: The Movie<\/a> looks more and more like a stroke of genius, as we learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/2662774\/Stephen-Baldwin-files-for-bankrupcy\">neither one of them can balance the books<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4) For those keeping an eye on nominations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brantfordexpositor.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1666395\">Bob Speller<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/ottawa\/2009\/07\/20\/004-mackinnon-pl-gatineau.shtml\">Steve <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">MacKinnon<\/span><\/a> are making pushes in <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Haldimand<\/span>-Norfolk and <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Gatineau<\/span>. <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Gatineau<\/span> certainly seems very winnable with Liberal fortunes up in Quebec, while Speller will need to overcome an 8-point gap from 2008 to get back into the House.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to stay up to date on nomination news, I&#8217;d bookmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punditsguide.ca\/\">Pundit&#8217;s Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) I&#8217;ll give Flaherty props for the home reno tax credit in this year&#8217;s budget &#8211; it seems to be having the desired effect. As for the Tories&#8217; festival funding&#8230;not so much. 2) Notice how it IS Tony Clement now making the funding decisions. Looks like Brad Trost may have been right about the Ablonczy [&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\/2345"}],"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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}