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TGIM
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In addition to a hilarious rant on Canada giving foreign aid to China (\u201cMaybe we should give the 60 million to the Sudan since, you know, they<\/em> don\u2019t have a space program\u201d), Rick Mercer took a few shots at Stephen Harper\u2019s Same Sex Marriage adds on tonight\u2019s Monday Report. It\u2019s not Doris Day funny, but it\u2019s definitely worth checking out<\/a>. Apparently the Harper adds only give two \u201cyes\u201d answers, so Monday Report is trying to \u201cprotect the traditional definition of survey<\/a>\u201d. Oh, and no married people can vote since they don\u2019t want the add to lead to polygamy.<\/p>\n

Monday Report is a show that I\u2019ve always had high hopes for. It\u2019s the closest we\u2019ll ever get to a Canadian Daily Show and you can see them starting to go in that direction. Tonight, Rick showed a \u201cSegue of the week\u201d clip of a Toronto TV personality who said \u201cso and so died. She was 84. Speaking of 84, I wish it was 84 degrees outside this weekend, let\u2019s see the weather.\u201d That was vintage Daily Show. If Mercer could just start taking some video clips from Harper and Martin and tossing in the requisite one liners and bewildered facial expressions, it could be the best thing on Canadian TV. Getting their correspondent to try a few more satire reports instead of his usual dull pieces (\u201cthis week, Darren Jones visits a quilting show!\u201d) would be an improvement in the right direction too.<\/p>\n

In other news\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

-My Blahg has a funny spoof <\/a>of Warren testifying before Gomery.<\/p>\n

-Kevin Taft received 146 votes for and 3 against at the Alberta Liberal Party leadership review this weekend (And everyone<\/em> actually got to vote. What a novel idea!). He got a great reception from his speech which was quite good and yet fully realistic of the challenges ahead. After a few less than inspiring leaders, it\u2019s nice to the ALP finally has someone the members can rally behind.<\/p>\n

-The leaked story about Bush pressing Martin <\/a>has got a lot of media play. As the Toronto Star<\/em>, of all papers, has said, it\u2019s going to be difficult to say no to Bush<\/a>. As much as I think Star Wars is a bad idea, from a purely political perspective, if Martin is going to say yes, he should just say yes and get it over with. His reputation as a waffler is growing, even among Liberals who supported him during his leadership putsch. Indecision on missile defense did Diefenbaker in, and it might very well do the same to Martin. Regardless, we\u2019re in for a rockin\u2019 spring session of Parliament. We\u2019ve got red hot same sex and missile defense debates, the Sgro fall-out, Goodale\u2019s budget, and a minority government to add that level of uncertainty we haven\u2019t seen in years. With no hockey this year, it\u2019ll be the hottest spectator sport in Canada this spring.
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TGIM In addition to a hilarious rant on Canada giving foreign aid to China (\u201cMaybe we should give the 60 million to the Sudan since, you know, they don\u2019t have a space program\u201d), Rick Mercer took a few shots at Stephen Harper\u2019s Same Sex Marriage adds on tonight\u2019s Monday Report. It\u2019s not Doris Day funny, […]<\/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\/240"}],"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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}