Yes, it’s that time of the year again. The time when notes are passed, gossip is spread and a young MP’s heart turns to question period and confidence vote: The House has returned.<\/p>\n
Hacks and Wonks has the QP summary up<\/a>, but it just doesn’t feel like Parliament is running, without Don Newman and Politics<\/a>. So, for anyone who is starting to feel the cold harsh sting of the CBC lock-out, here’s a “30 second virtual Politics”:<\/p>\n “Welcome to the broooooaaaaadcast<\/em>…I’m trying to be fair on time…let so and so answer…(groundless election speculation<\/em>)…The Liberals are corrupt Scott…The NDP is out of touch Jamey…Stephen Harper is facing a rebellion Tim…(groundless election speculation<\/em>)…you can watch politics on the web…join us tomorrow morning at 10:30…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, it’s that time of the year again. The time when notes are passed, gossip is spread and a young MP’s heart turns to question period and confidence vote: The House has returned. Hacks and Wonks has the QP summary up, but it just doesn’t feel like Parliament is running, without Don Newman and Politics. […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}