{"id":2379,"date":"2009-08-27T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2009-08-27T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:47:00","slug":"entitled-to-their-entitlements-2009-senate-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"Entitled to their Entitlements: 2009 Senate Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SpaUY_7I8YI\/AAAAAAAABVE\/Kshfv5kB1ZY\/s1600-h\/harper_senate_prop.jpg\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SpaUY_7I8YI\/AAAAAAAABVE\/Kshfv5kB1ZY\/s320\/harper_senate_prop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374646362510520706\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Then<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20051214\/elxn_tories_senate_051214?s_name=election2006&amp;no_ads=\">Tories pledge Senate reform, fixed election dates<\/a><br \/><em>Calling Canada&#8217;s appointed Senate a relic of the 19th century, Harper said a Senate chair should be occupied by someone with a democratic mandate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/harper-to-appoint-close-tory-backers-to-senate\/article1266017\/\">Harper to appoint close Tory backers to Senate<\/a><br \/><em>Campaign chair Doug Finley and long-time communications assistant Carolyn Stewart-Olsen to go to Red Chamber in coming days<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then: Tories pledge Senate reform, fixed election datesCalling Canada&#8217;s appointed Senate a relic of the 19th century, Harper said a Senate chair should be occupied by someone with a democratic mandate. Now: Harper to appoint close Tory backers to SenateCampaign chair Doug Finley and long-time communications assistant Carolyn Stewart-Olsen to go to Red Chamber in [&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\/2379"}],"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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}