{"id":4724,"date":"2010-07-27T07:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2010-07-27T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T11:59:52","slug":"four-weeks-in-canadian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/four-weeks-in-canadian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Four weeks in Canadian history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/07\/27\/previously-on-the-country-i-live-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Feschuk<\/a> has been out of the country for a while. He&#8217;s delighted to find that something actually happened in Canada while he was away, and provides a useful summary for those of us not paying attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been away from Canada for four of the past five weeks, and it\u2019s always fun to return and see what\u2019s been missed. A comprehensive review:<\/p>\n<p>1. The dominant domestic news story of the past month hinges on the intricacies of statistical analysis.<\/p>\n<p>2. Finally demonstrating a populist touch, Michael Ignatieff has started production on his own Speed sequel: If his party\u2019s popularity in opinion polls falls below 25 per cent, the Liberal Express explodes! (Subplot: If the bus keeps stopping for Timbits, the occupants of the Liberal Express explode!)<\/p>\n<p>3. Conrad Black has apparently tunneled out of prison and escaped.<\/p>\n<p>4. Upon being informed of No. 3, David Radler has soiled himself.*<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Not reported, but a safe assumption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ever change, Canada.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Feschuk has been out of the country for a while. He&#8217;s delighted to find that something actually happened in Canada while he was away, and provides a useful summary for those of us not paying attention: I\u2019ve been away from Canada for four of the past five weeks, and it\u2019s always fun to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[596,296,290],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","tag-conradblack","tag-michaelignatieff","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}