{"id":2644,"date":"2013-02-07T19:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2014-04-29T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:14:13","slug":"joining-the-opposition-with-brian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/joining-the-opposition-with-brian\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining The Opposition With Brian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2645\" alt=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-5233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5233.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5233.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-5233-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joining The Opposition With Brian<br \/>\n<\/strong>Featuring Brian Mason<br \/>\nPolitician, Member of Legislative Assembly, Leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/albertandp.ca\/\">Alberta&#8217;s New Democratic Party<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 7, 2013<br \/>\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>After completing a political science degree from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\">University of Alberta<\/a>, Brian was hired as a bus driver for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmonton.ca\/transportation\/edmonton-transit-system-ets.aspx\">Edmonton Transit System<\/a>. In 1989 he was elected as a City Councillor in Edmonton and remained in that position though three more elections for a total of 11 years.\u00a0 In 2000 he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Edmonton Highlands-Norwood, winning relection in 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2012.\u00a0 He has been the official leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/albertandp.ca\/\">Alberta&#8217;s New Democratic Party<\/a> since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Brian see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Mason\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Mason<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmason.ca\">http:\/\/www.brianmason.ca<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>The pen set in front of Brian was a gift from his father when he was first elected to Edmonton City Council in 1989.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining The Opposition With Brian Featuring Brian Mason Politician, Member of Legislative Assembly, Leader of Alberta&#8217;s New Democratic Party February 7, 2013 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada After completing a political science degree from the University of Alberta, Brian was hired as a bus driver for the Edmonton Transit System. In 1989 he was elected as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}