So how much did you pay attention to politics last year? Given the kind of year it was, I sincerely hope the answer is “not much”. But if you want to reminisce about the year that was, you can take my year in review quiz*.<\/p>\n
*although I say “my quiz”, it’s possible some questions were written by Helena Guergis’ assistant<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Which city’s airport did Helena Guergis call a “hell hole”?<\/p>\n 2. Which cabinet minister got into a heated argument after trying to bring a bottle of tequila onto an airplane?<\/p>\n 3. Which Premier flew to the US for heart surgery?<\/p>\n 4. Whose sexting inspired the “A Fare to Remember<\/em>” newspaper headline this spring?<\/p>\n 5. How many premiers left office this year or announced their departure? (and Jean Charest digging his political grave doesn’t count)<\/p>\n 6. When not turning water to wine, Danielle Smith leads the Wildrose Alliance, a party threatening to topple the 40 year PC dynasty. How many MLAs does the Alliance currently have?<\/p>\n 7. This inanimate object drew headlines after it was revealed to cost 1.9 million (or $57,000, depending on who you ask):<\/p>\n A. Stockwell Day’s murse 8. Who did James Moore christen as “Canada’s Team” a week before their exit from the NHL playoffs?<\/p>\n 9. In which of the following cities were incumbent mayors defeated this fall?<\/p>\n A. Calgary 10. This year, the Alberta PC government stopped listing the following as a mental disorder just 37 years after the American Psychiatric Association made the same decision:<\/p>\n A. Depression 11. What reason did Stockwell Day give as a reason for spending 11 billion dollars on new prisons?<\/p>\n A. “This is part of the stimulus program.” 12. The Ottawa Sun praised the naming of David Johnson as Governor General for which of the following reasons?<\/p>\n A. He’s distinguished 13. What 2010 event did Larry Smith call a “catastrophe”?<\/p>\n A. The BP oil spill So how much did you pay attention to politics last year? Given the kind of year it was, I sincerely hope the answer is “not much”. But if you want to reminisce about the year that was, you can take my year in review quiz*. *although I say “my quiz”, it’s possible some questions were […]<\/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\/2831"}],"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=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
B. Fake Lake
C. Rahim Jaffer’s cocaine
D. Michael Ignatieff<\/p>\n
B. Toronto
C. Winnipeg
D. Ottawa<\/p>\n
B. Homosexuality
C. Adultery
D. Voting Liberal<\/p>\n
B. “We need a place to put the Liberals connected to Adscam.”
C. “We’re very concerned about the increase in the amount of unreported crime.”
D. “Boy, crime, I dunno.”<\/p>\n
B. He has accomplished a lot in his career
C. He’d represent Canada well
D. He’s a white male<\/p>\n
B. The Haiti earthquake
C. The Roughriders performance in the Grey Cup
D. His new senate salary of $132,000 a year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"