{"id":2655,"date":"2010-05-20T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2010-05-20T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:43:00","slug":"the-canadian-senate-our-bills-are-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian Senate: Our Bills Are Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Senate. Outside of journalists, only a few dozen people watch it live. Maybe a couple hundred follow it on a semi-regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>So I can&#8217;t think of a better appointment than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/05\/20\/braley-senate.html\">owner of the Toronto Argos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Lions, Argos owner Braley tapped for Senate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed David Braley, a Hamilton-area businessman who owns two Canadian Football League teams, to the Senate to fill a vacancy from Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Braley, owner of the B.C. Lions and the Toronto Argonauts, will immediately replace Conservative Senator Wilbert Keon. Keon has reached the mandatory Senate retirement age of 75.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Senate. Outside of journalists, only a few dozen people watch it live. Maybe a couple hundred follow it on a semi-regular basis. So I can&#8217;t think of a better appointment than the owner of the Toronto Argos: Lions, Argos owner Braley tapped for Senate Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed David Braley, a [&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\/2655"}],"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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}