{"id":2953,"date":"2011-04-10T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2012-05-29T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:31:03","slug":"hors-jeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2953","title":{"rendered":"Hors Jeu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s just hope the Habs aren’t playing May 2nd, or we might need to reschedule the whole election: <\/p>\n

French election debate switched to Wednesday because of Habs<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

OTTAWA\u2014File this one in the only-in-Canada category. <\/p>\n

A multi-partisan outcry has led to the rescheduling of a federal election debate so that it does not overlap with a first-round Montreal Canadiens playoff game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, for those keeping score at home, it’s Montreal Canadiens 1, Elizabeth May 0.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I think we missed a golden opportunity here. We could have gone ahead with the debate on Thursday, but just held it during intermissions and commercial breaks. Have the four leaders sitting around at a pub watching the game over nachos and beer (or wine for Michael, I guess), talking politics. <\/p>\n

If anything, this would boost <\/em>viewership in the debate. To keep the flow going, you’d just need to make sure the leaders used a few clever transitions: <\/p>\n

-“Price has been great tonight – but you know what price isn’t great? The $30 billion Harper is paying for fighter jets?”
-“The Bruins broke into the Canadiens’ zone quickly there – almost as quick as Michael Ignatieff broke into Canada from Boston.”
-“Hey guys, did I mention I was writing a hockey book?” <\/p>\n

You know, stuff like that. We missed a great opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s just hope the Habs aren’t playing May 2nd, or we might need to reschedule the whole election: French election debate switched to Wednesday because of Habs OTTAWA\u2014File this one in the only-in-Canada category. A multi-partisan outcry has led to the rescheduling of a federal election debate so that it does not overlap with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-federal-election","category-federal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}