{"id":901,"date":"2006-04-17T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=901"},"modified":"2006-04-17T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T16:41:00","slug":"easter-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Easter Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone looking to kill some time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Via Cherniak, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agora-vox.com\/article.php3?id_article=4756\">this <\/a>pretty funny. Hopefully Gerard&#8217;s launch won&#8217;t feature &#8220;<em>we&#8217;re going to St. John&#8217;s, then we&#8217;re going to St. John, then we&#8217;re going to Victoria, then we&#8217;re going to Red Deer, then we&#8217;re going to Moose Jaw, then we&#8217;re going to take back Ottawa &#8211; Yeeeeeeeearrrrrrhhhhh<\/em>!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Inkless Wells may have gone dormant, but Paul&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/topstories\/politics\/article.jsp?content=20060417_125314_125314\">latest Maclean&#8217;s piece <\/a>is up. It talks about the tag team efforts to destroy the Liberals, but also features this fun tid-bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">At one point Chuck Strahl, the agriculture minister, joked that thousands of farmers protesting outside had every right to expect action from a Conservative government &#8220;because they certainly didn&#8217;t get any from the last government.&#8221; Strahl&#8217;s colleagues gave him a standing ovation. Emerson joined the ovation. Basically Emerson was applauding the assertion that he belonged to a do-nothing government. Later he professed to &#8220;shake my head at the hypocrisy&#8221; of another MP. He will provide barrels of fun for a long time to come.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehilltimes.ca\/html\/index.php?display=story&#038;full_path=\/2006\/april\/17\/alberta\/&amp;c=1\">The Hill Times <\/a>has an article on federal MPs who might jump to the provincial PCs if Preston Manning runs. For what it&#8217;s worth, I think Manning should run provincially. He&#8217;d actually bring some substance to the race and would make Paul Martin wannabe Jim Dinning work for it.<\/p>\n<p>-The Globe has the run-down on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060417.wxliberals17\/BNStory\/National\/home\"> campaign launch dates<\/a>. I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re looking at a group of ten candidates consisting of: Ignatieff, Kennedy, Dion, Dryden, Rae, Brison, Bennett, Findlay, Volpe, and Bevilacqua (Maybe toss in Hedy Fry and\/or Denis Coderre too). For all the talk about the &#8220;big names&#8221; opting out, I think that&#8217;s a pretty solid field.<\/p>\n<p>-Oh, and this is almost a week old, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mercerreport\/\">Rick Mercer in bed with the Liberal leadership candidates<\/a>&#8230;gold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone looking to kill some time&#8230; -Via Cherniak, I found this pretty funny. Hopefully Gerard&#8217;s launch won&#8217;t feature &#8220;we&#8217;re going to St. John&#8217;s, then we&#8217;re going to St. John, then we&#8217;re going to Victoria, then we&#8217;re going to Red Deer, then we&#8217;re going to Moose Jaw, then we&#8217;re going to take back Ottawa &#8211; [&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-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}