{"id":2583,"date":"2010-03-02T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:09:00","slug":"for-those-who-dont-think-sidney-crosby-saved-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"For those who don&#8217;t think Sidney Crosby saved Canada&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mark publishes a cross-partisan look at <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/static\/ideas\">14 ways to save Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give a thumbs up to David Suzuki&#8217;s plea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1050-tackle-climate-change\">comprehensive strategy to tackle climate change<\/a> (hell, even a <em>half-ass<\/em> strategy would look good by comparison to what we&#8217;ve seen over the past decade) and Michael <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Geist&#8217;s<\/span> plea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1032-launch-a-digital-strategy\">comprehensive strategy to tackle the digital era<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t argue against the need to <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1042-stop-heckling\">ban heckling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1039-back-ottawas-watchdogs\">boost watchdog powers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1040-hold-more-free-votes\">hold more free votes<\/a>, or to <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1037-make-committees-matter\">make committees mater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Gafuik<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1053-build-a-big-society\">wants Canadians to be nicer to each other<\/a> so that government won&#8217;t have to spend as much on social programs. That&#8217;s all swell and good, but I&#8217;m not sure how he exactly expects to bring this about, and unless we can find some way to alter thousands of years of human behaviour, I think it&#8217;s still up to government to help those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Robert <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Huish<\/span> thinks we should <a href=\"http:\/\/themarknews.com\/articles\/1035-have-a-real-debate\">stop paying attention to hockey<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure this week is necessarily the most opportune moment for Robert to be advancing this idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mark publishes a cross-partisan look at 14 ways to save Canada. I&#8217;ll give a thumbs up to David Suzuki&#8217;s plea for a comprehensive strategy to tackle climate change (hell, even a half-ass strategy would look good by comparison to what we&#8217;ve seen over the past decade) and Michael Geist&#8217;s plea for a comprehensive strategy [&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\/2583"}],"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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}