{"id":2768,"date":"2010-10-12T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2010-10-12T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:47:00","slug":"news-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"News & Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Julian Fantino<\/a> will be the Tory candidate in the upcoming Vaughan by election. As for when that will occur, Pundits Guide speculate<\/a>s that the 5 upcoming by elections will be called for a December 13th vote.<\/p>\n

So how will the Vaughan by election go? Well, in my updated Seat Projections (to be posted tomorrow morning), I peg the riding at a 91% chance of going Liberal and 9% of going Tory if a general election were held today. But let’s remember, by elections have a life of their own, and Fantino is a legit star candidate, so you almost have to handicap the Tories as slight favourites in this one.<\/p>\n

2. The Globe and Mail applauds<\/a> Ignatieff’s Family Care policy <\/a>(as do these <\/a>people).<\/p>\n

3. The Ontario PCs have launched pre-election ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. Canada has lost its bid<\/a> for a seat on the UN Security council. And the Tories have found a way to blame this one on Michael Ignatieff <\/a>– huh. Let’s all be grateful Canada won Olympic hockey gold this year, or else I’m sure that loss would have been Ignatieff’s fault too.<\/p>\n

Either way, I don’t see this as a big vote turner. Foreign policy rarely is. But it’s still an embarrassment for Harper, no matter how you spin it.<\/p>\n

5. Speaking of embarrassments, a video of Rob Ford<\/a> in action. (hat tip – Kinsella)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Julian Fantino will be the Tory candidate in the upcoming Vaughan by election. As for when that will occur, Pundits Guide speculates that the 5 upcoming by elections will be called for a December 13th vote. So how will the Vaughan by election go? Well, in my updated Seat Projections (to be posted tomorrow […]<\/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\/2768"}],"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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}