{"id":119,"date":"2009-04-18T08:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/04-2\/wheat-from-the-chaff-donald-brittains-the-champions"},"modified":"2011-07-13T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:14:59","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-donald-brittains-the-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/119","title":{"rendered":"Donald Brittain&#8217;s The Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/119\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><span>My favourite documentary on Canadian politics is Donald Brittain&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Champions<\/span>. The three-part series explores the epic struggle between Rene Levesque and Pierre Trudeau, and their efforts to bring forth a sovereign Quebec and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, respectively. The series does a wonderful job of capturing the atmosphere of the 60&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s and early 80&#8217;s, and succeeds at dispelling the myth that Canada&#8217;s history and politics are boring. This is gripping stuff, and it will be worth the time you spend watching it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/playlist\/champions-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/playlist\/champions-series\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 12:14 AM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Sunday, April 19, 2009 1:28 PM<\/em><br \/>\nCategories: <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_canadianpolitics.html\">Canadian Politics<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite documentary on Canadian politics is Donald Brittain&#8217;s The Champions. The three-part series explores the epic struggle between Rene Levesque and Pierre Trudeau, and their efforts to bring forth a sovereign Quebec and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, respectively. The series does a wonderful job of capturing the atmosphere of the 60&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}