{"id":722,"date":"2006-01-19T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=722"},"modified":"2006-01-19T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T19:13:00","slug":"conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two points on the conspiracy theory front:<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#8217;m a little uneasy by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060118.wharperjudg0118\/BNStory\/specialDecision2006\/\">Harper&#8217;s implication <\/a>over the past few days that the judiciary isn&#8217;t independent. Remember, Harper will have <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiancerberus.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/who-will-harper-nominate-to-supreme.html\">at least one SCC <\/a>seat to fill during his time as PM and if he&#8217;s obsessed about partisan judges, I&#8217;m a little worried he might appoint a partisan judge.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/exceptforonething.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/progressive-bloggers.html\">Except For One Thing <\/a>speculates about bloggers criticizing Martin in order to gather favour with the &#8220;incoming regime&#8221;, as a way of landing plum political jobs. I can&#8217;t speak for other bloggers, but I know I&#8217;ve been trying to turn this blogging thing into an ambassadorship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two points on the conspiracy theory front: 1. I&#8217;m a little uneasy by Harper&#8217;s implication over the past few days that the judiciary isn&#8217;t independent. Remember, Harper will have at least one SCC seat to fill during his time as PM and if he&#8217;s obsessed about partisan judges, I&#8217;m a little worried he might appoint [&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\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}