{"id":297,"date":"2005-04-05T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=297"},"modified":"2005-04-05T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:15:00","slug":"297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s in a Name?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s an interesting news story <\/a>an alert reader sent my way today. It appears the Provincial Liberal Party are considering a name change. And, no, “Washington Generals” does not appear to be in the running.<\/p>\n

Jokes aside, I have mixed opinions on this. I’ve long been in favour of a Liberal\/NDP merger to create a new Party. I think such a party might have a legitimate shot at challenging the Conservatives. You’d eliminate the vote splitting and erase the stigma surrounding both parties. Let’s face it, “Liberal” is a bad word in Alberta. People who weren’t born when the NEP was brought in and don’t even know what it was still bring it up…and this is during provincial elections. A new name might get us a few votes from Albertans who hate the Conservatives but just can’t bring themselves to vote for the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, a lot of life-long Liberals wouldn’t like this. I can just hear the voices of party members shouting “I’ve been a Liberal since Sifton was Premier and have always been proud to be a Liberal and…blah blah blah”. So, with this in mind, it’s likely not worth the flack it would cause.<\/p>\n

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I’d be curious to hear what Liberals and non-Liberals alike think about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in a Name? Here’s an interesting news story an alert reader sent my way today. It appears the Provincial Liberal Party are considering a name change. And, no, “Washington Generals” does not appear to be in the running. Jokes aside, I have mixed opinions on this. I’ve long been in favour of a Liberal\/NDP […]<\/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\/297"}],"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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}