{"id":570,"date":"2005-11-25T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=570"},"modified":"2005-11-25T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T04:26:00","slug":"for-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"For Immediate Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister Paul Martin Announces Money For Progressive Blogging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CALGARY &#8211; CalgaryGrit today thanked the federal government for a recent $660,000 blogging grant. The grant was part of Ralph Goodale&#8217;s announcement of 23 million dollars in support for progressive bloggers, one of 78 spending announcements he made on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This move was in no way related to the upcoming election,&#8221; said Goodale. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on this file for six months.&#8221; Goodale&#8217;s other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051124.wspending1124\/BNStory\/Front\">recent spending announcements <\/a>have included $342 million in arts funding, $29 million to help Happy Valley Newfoundland diversify its economy, and $270,000 for Toronto&#8217;s Beta Shoe Museum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this will hurt Paul&#8217;s reputation as sound money manager,&#8221; said CalgaryGrit writer Bart Ramson. &#8220;This is the kind of valuable legislation that will die because of Stephen Harper&#8217;s unholy alliance with the separatists and socialists to force a Christmas election on Canadians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Conservative leader Stephen Harper maintains the Conservatives will not cancel this spending announcement if elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Paul Martin Announces Money For Progressive Blogging CALGARY &#8211; CalgaryGrit today thanked the federal government for a recent $660,000 blogging grant. The grant was part of Ralph Goodale&#8217;s announcement of 23 million dollars in support for progressive bloggers, one of 78 spending announcements he made on Thursday. &#8220;This move was in no way [&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\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}