{"id":501,"date":"2005-10-14T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=501"},"modified":"2005-10-14T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T15:08:00","slug":"notes-from-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Notes From Here And There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Sometimes these quirky stories require a one liner. Sometimes, the headline itself is enough. This is a case of the later: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasun.com\/News\/National\/2005\/10\/14\/1261516-sun.html\">Tories Stole Tampon Tax Cut Idea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051014.wxsuicide1014\/BNStory\/National\/\">euthanasia bill<\/a> could get a bit of media play this fall. Good. So long as the proper safeguards are put in place, I don&#8217;t see any reason why a law allowing very limited assisted suicide shouldn&#8217;t be brought in. At the very least, this will get the debate going.<\/p>\n<p>3. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20051014\/CANNABIS14\/TPHealth\/?query=marijuana\">marijuana isn&#8217;t all that bad<\/a> &#8211; at least for rats. In other news, we enter year 17 of the pot decriminalization bill being stuck in legislative purgatory.<\/p>\n<p>4. More Gomery testimony will come out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051014.wgomery1014\/BNStory\/National\/\">5 pm eastern today<\/a>. Don&#8217;t expect any shocking revelations but it might bring Adscam back to the minds of Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>5. The buzz on the street is that Michael Ignatieff is hoping to run in Bill Graham&#8217;s riding, while the party would like him to take on Jack Layton. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how this one unfolds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Sometimes these quirky stories require a one liner. Sometimes, the headline itself is enough. This is a case of the later: Tories Stole Tampon Tax Cut Idea 2. A euthanasia bill could get a bit of media play this fall. Good. So long as the proper safeguards are put in place, I don&#8217;t see [&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\/501"}],"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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}