{"id":944,"date":"2006-05-29T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=944"},"modified":"2006-05-29T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T19:27:00","slug":"monday-leadership-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Monday Leadership News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start off with the race on everyone&#8217;s mind &#8211; the Green Party! Centrerion has scored interviews with David Chernushenko (slogan: <em>easier name to spell than Bevilacqua<\/em>) and Elizabeth May. And he&#8217;s open to suggestions on what questions you&#8217;d like to see the two contenders asked. So if you have any burning Green Party of Canada issues you&#8217;d like to see raised, <a href=\"http:\/\/centrerion.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/green-party-of-canada-leadership.html\">head on over to the site and suggest them<\/a>. Personally, I&#8217;d like to ask the candidates if they&#8217;re open to changing the colour of their signs to orange so that passers by can see them better.<\/p>\n<p>On the same vein, I had a chance to interview Carolyn Bennett last week and will post that in the coming days. It also sounds like I will get the opportunity to sit down with another candidate later this month so if anyone has any questions they&#8217;d like to see me ask them, be they serious or not, I&#8217;m open to suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/8128\/397\/1600\/chan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/8128\/397\/200\/chan.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> In Liberal leadership news, Gerard Kennedy had a big event in BC over the weekend, announcing Raymond Chan as his BC co-chair.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060529.wxliberals29\/BNStory\/National\/home\">buzzing about endorsements <\/a>this week, highlighting the teams which have lined up behind Kennedy and Ignatieff.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it breaks any rules so I didn&#8217;t mention the Volpe business over the weekend. Still, it&#8217;s good to see that Joe Volpe inspires youth to such a large degree that they are willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060527.NATS27-1\/TPStory\">donate over 5 grand <\/a>to his campaign &#8211; each.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, this isn&#8217;t leadership related, but someone needs to remind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060529.wricky29\/BNStory\/Sports\/home\">Ricky Williams <\/a>that Harper has killed the pot decrim laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> I&#8217;ve added a &#8220;Related&#8221; link to the permalink section which will take you to similar topics of posts on Canconv. If you find this really annoying or think this is a brilliant addition to the site, let me know via e-mail or in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start off with the race on everyone&#8217;s mind &#8211; the Green Party! Centrerion has scored interviews with David Chernushenko (slogan: easier name to spell than Bevilacqua) and Elizabeth May. And he&#8217;s open to suggestions on what questions you&#8217;d like to see the two contenders asked. So if you have any burning Green Party of [&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-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}