{"id":3223,"date":"2012-01-15T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:30:00","slug":"2012-liberal-biennial-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"2012 Liberal Biennial in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6qhdVjTnPi8\/TxN_i-aiwTI\/AAAAAAAAC18\/XlxD4RBv_LA\/s1600\/Convention%2B008.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698038192400417074\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6qhdVjTnPi8\/TxN_i-aiwTI\/AAAAAAAAC18\/XlxD4RBv_LA\/s320\/Convention%2B008.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>The drive to Ottawa. Had there been an \u201cannex the Turks &amp; Caicos\u201d policy, it would have passed overwhelmingly, simply on the prospect of a sun destination convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fI_MUbNhWXU\/TxOF4bsJGcI\/AAAAAAAAC3E\/tvlRCwA3mB8\/s1600\/Convention%2B051.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698045158105881026\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fI_MUbNhWXU\/TxOF4bsJGcI\/AAAAAAAAC3E\/tvlRCwA3mB8\/s320\/Convention%2B051.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>Munir Sheikh \u2013 the Bono of former StatsCan heads \u2013 gave a 9 am talk on survey sampling methodology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TZc9PeyXJGI\/TxODKL0w6sI\/AAAAAAAAC24\/lyH-UfyzxPk\/s1600\/Convention%2B048.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698042164549839554\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TZc9PeyXJGI\/TxODKL0w6sI\/AAAAAAAAC24\/lyH-UfyzxPk\/s320\/Convention%2B048.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>The voting clickers predictably had some glitches \u2013 I think I accidently voted for Pat Buchanan on one of the policy resolutions. Luckily, Peter Miliken was there to oversee voting and \u201cMiliken&#8221; anyone who dared bring up an ill-constructed point of order. He was hands-down the convention MVP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g9uzH3NJ3GQ\/TxOCynbd54I\/AAAAAAAAC2s\/4ICQFUTyJAQ\/s1600\/Convention%2B046.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698041759643068290\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g9uzH3NJ3GQ\/TxOCynbd54I\/AAAAAAAAC2s\/4ICQFUTyJAQ\/s320\/Convention%2B046.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sheila Copps&#8217; &#8220;rats nest&#8221; was one of the many hospitality suites at the convention. However, the Westin shut them down at 11&#8230;something which would never have happened if the Liberals were in power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-iaH1lOsvkhA\/TxOAxpvuYAI\/AAAAAAAAC2I\/wo9rugitrKA\/s1600\/Convention%2B021.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698039544061779970\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-iaH1lOsvkhA\/TxOAxpvuYAI\/AAAAAAAAC2I\/wo9rugitrKA\/s320\/Convention%2B021.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>For those of you out there who have always wanted an Edward Blake or Alexander Mackenzie button&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JJsxW0sZv3s\/TxOCcK3mhMI\/AAAAAAAAC2g\/JVF971f0A1A\/s1600\/Convention%2B044.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698041374019323074\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JJsxW0sZv3s\/TxOCcK3mhMI\/AAAAAAAAC2g\/JVF971f0A1A\/s320\/Convention%2B044.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>The momentum around &#8220;Coyne 4 leader&#8221; was unstoppable this weekend. In fact, a rival leadership camp <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/acoyne\/status\/158235803686940672\">stole his coat<\/a>, in a bid to derail his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to Ottawa. Had there been an \u201cannex the Turks &amp; Caicos\u201d policy, it would have passed overwhelmingly, simply on the prospect of a sun destination convention. Munir Sheikh \u2013 the Bono of former StatsCan heads \u2013 gave a 9 am talk on survey sampling methodology. The voting clickers predictably had some glitches \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/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":[928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-liberal-bienial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}