{"id":17476,"date":"2014-06-29T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2014-06-29T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T03:56:31","slug":"liberal-candidate-in-toronto-byelection-gets-shot-of-star-power-from-ont-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/29\/liberal-candidate-in-toronto-byelection-gets-shot-of-star-power-from-ont-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal candidate in Toronto byelection gets shot of star power from Ont. premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17477\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wynne_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17477\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wynne_pic.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. Photo by Uiaeli \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wynne_pic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wynne_pic-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. Photo by Uiaeli \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Fresh off her successful provincial election campaign, Ontario\u2019s premier has lent some of her star power to the Liberal candidate in a closely watched federal byelection race in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Adam Vaughan to rally his supporters in the riding of Trinity-Spadina on Saturday, touting what she called the former Toronto councillor\u2019s track record as a \u201ccity builder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just over two weeks ago Wynne scored a convincing victory in Ontario\u2019s election giving the Liberals a majority government.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP brought in some big-league wattage of its own, as leader Thomas Mulcair made another of what has been many trips to the bustling downtown riding with candidate Joe Cressy.<\/p>\n<p>The New Democrats are looking to hang on to the seat, which was vacated when Olivia Chow stepped down to enter Toronto\u2019s mayoral race.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair says that if voters in a riding known for sending left-leaning politicians to office at all levels of government want to elect a progressive party then \u201cthat\u2019s the NDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of four byelections set for Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Fresh off her successful provincial election campaign, Ontario\u2019s premier has lent some of her star power to the Liberal candidate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}