{"id":796,"date":"2006-02-14T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=796"},"modified":"2006-02-14T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T21:04:00","slug":"drinking-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Drinking Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alert reader sent me the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teambc.ca\/cgi-bin\/new_news.pl?newsID=412\">following press release<\/a>, sent out my the BC Young Liberals during the election campaign. I guess it beats a Buzz Hargrove endorsement but there&#8217;s certainly something a little surreal about the entire press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">VOTE FOR THE SPIRIT BEAR. VOTE LIBERAL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Canadian politics, the Liberal Party of Canada is the friend of the Spirit Bear.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit Bear Youth Coalition &#8211; a Vancouver-based not-for-profit &#8211; today endorsed the Liberal Party of Canada and encouraged more than 2.5 million supporters in its Canadian network to vote for the Spirit Bear by voting Liberal.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of their Made-in-BC Agenda, the Liberal Party unveiled a pledge to secure<br \/>the future of the Spirit Bear by working with the First Nations and the BC government to protect the bear&#8217;s last intact ecosystem, an area that includes<br \/>the Green Watershed. The policy, for which the pledge is based on, was voted by<br \/>Liberal members as the party&#8217;s top priority for British Columbia and marked the<br \/>first time any political party acknowledged the need to save the Green<br \/>Watershed, an area critical to the bear&#8217;s survival, while protecting tradition<br \/>uses.<\/p>\n<p><em>(it goes on&#8230; one key tidbit:<\/em> &#8220;The Spirit Bear Youth Coalition&#8230;.has a policy to endorse political parties that have a realistic chance of forming government&#8221;). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alert reader sent me the following press release, sent out my the BC Young Liberals during the election campaign. I guess it beats a Buzz Hargrove endorsement but there&#8217;s certainly something a little surreal about the entire press release: VOTE FOR THE SPIRIT BEAR. VOTE LIBERAL. In Canadian politics, the Liberal Party of Canada [&hellip;]<\/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-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}