{"id":499,"date":"2005-10-12T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=499"},"modified":"2005-10-12T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:03:00","slug":"in-the-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.members.shaw.ca\/nspector4\/OFFBEAT.htm\">Norman Spector&#8217;s <\/a>site, comes this <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/food_and_drink\/features\/article318695.ece\">very interesting story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">But even in an age when triple-digit bills are unremarkable, Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s \u00a3100 pizza has caused a stir in the nation&#8217;s dining rooms.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone want to bet that the Minister of Immigration will be traveling to England on business sometime soon?<\/p>\n<p>2. Stephen Harper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/story.html?id=f28151b5-e087-421b-960c-b3d8e9738af5\">conceded he wouldn&#8217;t win an election right now <\/a>and might need the Gomery boost to form government. Even though that&#8217;s likely true, I&#8217;m not sure how wise it is for Harper to publicly say this.<\/p>\n<p>3. Dave Hancook is musing about giving Albertans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmonton\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=83bce3d1-b6f5-466a-b8b6-642368823965\">two free years of University tuition<\/a>. Assuming the Universities are funded to a level to ensure they remain (or, become) high quality schools, I think this is a great idea and the kind of &#8220;legacy&#8221; plan this government should attempt, rather than giving 400$ Ralph dollars to every Albertan.<\/p>\n<p>4. Apparently the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf.ca\/abcalcwf\/doc.nsf\/doc\/news_101105.cm\">Canada West Foundation agrees<\/a>. Their latest survey shows Albertans very cool to the rebate idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Via Norman Spector&#8217;s site, comes this very interesting story: But even in an age when triple-digit bills are unremarkable, Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s \u00a3100 pizza has caused a stir in the nation&#8217;s dining rooms. Anyone want to bet that the Minister of Immigration will be traveling to England on business sometime soon? 2. Stephen Harper has [&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\/499"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}