{"id":2673,"date":"2010-06-09T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2010-06-09T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:47:00","slug":"in-other-news-my-friend-and-i-negotiated-a-middle-east-peace-accord-over-beers-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"In other news, my friend and I negotiated a Middle East peace accord over beers last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/06\/08\/liberal-ndp-new-party.html\">Liberal, NDP insiders talk merger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Conservatives, CBC News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Many Liberal insiders confirmed that discussions between the two parties are not just focused on forming a coalition after an election or co-operation before one, but the creation of a new party.<\/p>\n<p>The new party would possibly be named the Liberal Democrats and there has been tentative talk about what a shared platform would look like and an understanding that a race would be required to choose a new leader.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They have a name. They&#8217;ve agreed the new party will need a leader and a platform. Not a bad day&#8217;s work by these mysterious Liberal and NDP insiders who have taken it upon themselves to negotiate a merger.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>only<\/em> stumbling block left to a deal is the overwhelming opposition to the idea by the Liberal Party and the NDP.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: This silly story gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/06\/09\/liberals-ndp-merger-kinsella.html\">sillier<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal, NDP insiders talk merger Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Conservatives, CBC News has learned. Many Liberal insiders confirmed that discussions between the two parties are not just focused on [&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\/2673"}],"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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}