{"id":3048,"date":"2011-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:00:00","slug":"renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging &#8211; after a punch to gut like that, it&#8217;s easy to give up, but it sounds like there&#8217;s a real appetite out there to change the party for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Bellow is a sample of posts and article &#8211; by all means if you&#8217;ve seen any others, e-mail me and I&#8217;ll update the list. I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with <em>all<\/em> the ideas being floated, but at this point everything should be debated.<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbowie.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/im-alive.html\">Monty Karl<\/a> calls for the creation of non-commissioned organizations, the same way Students Unions sanction clubs<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/second-reading\/andrew-steele\/the-liberal-culture-of-defeat\/article2011029\/\">Andrew Steele<\/a> on Liberal myths that must be abandoned<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Corey Hogan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliberal.ca\/145\/yes-there-is-a-problem\">declining Liberal fortunes in Alberta<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliberal.ca\/204\/a-new-liberal-movement\/\">New Liberal initiative<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliberal.ca\/284\/electronic-proxy-voting-how-does-it-work\/\">electronic convention proxy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliberal.ca\/227\/kickstarting-renewal\/\">a bunch of other nifty ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/daveyspolitics.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/liberal-partys-needs-are-specific-and.html\">Ryan Davey<\/a> on the challenges facing the Liberal Party<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rob Silver on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/second-reading\/silver-powers\/the-liberal-party-what-went-wrong-and-where-to-next\/article2008011\/\">future of the Liberal Party<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/second-reading\/silver-powers\/changing-everything-cant-look-the-same-for-liberals\/article2021395\/\">open primaries<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/second-reading\/silver-powers\/what-changing-everything-looks-like-for-liberals-policy-edition\/article2025522\/\">ending supply management<\/a>, and the need for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/second-reading\/silver-powers\/can-preston-manning-save-the-liberals\/article2010030\/\">a Liberal think tank<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kylegolsen.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/direct-democracy-or-how-i-learned-to.html\">Kyle Olsen<\/a> talks about how we elect party officials<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Jeff Jedras on <a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/reforming-liberal-party-at-top-part-one.html\">reforming the LPC structure<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/reforming-liberal-party-at-top-part-two.html\">here<\/a>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bcinto.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/reforming-liberal-party-who-are-we-and.html\">Liberal vision<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.processingpolitics.ca\/2011\/05\/well-that-sucked-now-what.html\">Brian Rice<\/a> on silos<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quixoterules.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/it-is-past-all-controversy-that-what.html\">Tilting at Windmills<\/a> on the road ahead<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryliberal.com\/2011\/05\/03\/we-are-an-ice-cube\/\">Calgary Liberal<\/a> gives an ice cube analogy<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/glenpearson.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/24\/bath-water-out-with-the-baby\/\">Glen Pearson<\/a> offers a policy map for the Liberal Party<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/election-post-mortem-liberals.html\">Calgary Grit<\/a> on where we go from here<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/opinion\/parties-should-value-their-losers-not-discard-them\/article2021684\/?service=mobile\">Jeffrey Simpson<\/a> on valuing losing candidates<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/story\/2011\/05\/10\/pol-liberal-rules-cp.html\">John Manley<\/a> on axing the commissions<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvo.org\/TVO\/WebObjects\/TVO.woa?videoid?931359447001\">John Ibbitson<\/a> on the merits of a primary-style leadership race<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/05\/06\/kelly-mcparland-how-to-fix-the-liberal-party\/\">Kelly McPharland<\/a> offers a conservative perspective on what must be done<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>Also, thanks also to those who have <a href=\"mailto:calgarygrit@gmail.com\">e-mailed<\/a> in their thoughts on what the Liberal Party needs to do. I&#8217;m keeping track of everything, and intend to explore some of the ideas being floated in a series of blog posts this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging &#8211; after a punch to gut like that, it&#8217;s easy to give up, but it sounds like there&#8217;s a real appetite out there to change the party for the better. Bellow is a sample of posts and article [&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\/3048"}],"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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}