{"id":388,"date":"2011-03-30T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arnpriornews.wordpress.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-03-30T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:21:16","slug":"coalition-bugaboos-and-reality-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2011\/03\/30\/coalition-bugaboos-and-reality-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Bugaboos and Reality Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know when coalition became a dirty word instead of an example of democratic cooperation (how is it not when the members involved are all elected? And what makes it reckless?) but I&#8217;m not going to get into this discussion.  Instead, I bring you, compliments of the CBC a wee bit of fact checking from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canadavotes2011\/realitycheck\/\">Reality Check<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canadavotes2011\/realitycheck\/2011\/03\/the-coalitions-not-the-question.html\">The Coalition&#8217;s Not The Question<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canadavotes2011\/realitycheck\/2011\/03\/harpers-coalition-assertion-they-tried-it-before.html\">Harper&#8217;s Coalition Assertion: &#8216;They tried it before&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to fight a perceived problem, quite another to re-write history.  I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-388\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2011\/03\/30\/coalition-bugaboos-and-reality-checks\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-388\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/IndieNews\/index.php\/2011\/03\/30\/coalition-bugaboos-and-reality-checks\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know when coalition became a dirty word instead of an example of democratic cooperation (how is it not when the members involved are all elected? And what makes it reckless?) but I&#8217;m not going to get into this discussion. 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