{"id":242462,"date":"2020-01-17T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242462"},"modified":"2020-01-17T00:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:39:18","slug":"nicolaides-hits-panic-button-sends-hypocritical-letter-to-post-secondaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/17\/nicolaides-hits-panic-button-sends-hypocritical-letter-to-post-secondaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolaides hits panic button, sends hypocritical letter to post-secondaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80701\" style=\"width: 1152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80701\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Sarah-Hoffman-Deputy-Premier-of-Alberta-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Deputy Leader of the NDP Official Opposition, Sarah Hoffman. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hoffman4Glenora\/photos\/a.705107069605499\/705107646272108\/?type=3&amp;theater\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hoffman4Glenora\/\">Sarah Hoffman\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDMONTON \u2013 Sarah Hoffman, Deputy Leader of the NDP Official Opposition, issued the following statement today regarding a letter sent to post-secondary institutions from Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis letter from Minister Nicolaides reeks of panic and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe UCP gave a $4.7-billion handout to big corporations and now they\u2019re pushing deeper cuts on Alberta\u2019s post-secondary schools. Alberta colleges and universities are raising tuition, laying off staff, and deferring maintenance. Ultimately it\u2019s students and families that pay the price.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe minister writes about responsibly managing finances, after his government wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars on private plane rides for the Premier, nights at five-star London hotels for his staff, and a failed $82,000-a-day war room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe truth is this UCP government has lost 50,000 full-time jobs since their corporate giveaway, and now they\u2019re panicking. The Minister is even telling post-secondaries to do some creative accounting and push today\u2019s expenses into the next budget year, which we all know will be even worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlberta deserves better than this kind of panicky, short-sighted decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The letter signed by Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides is attached. Sarah Hoffman is available for interviews upon request.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 Sarah Hoffman, Deputy Leader of the NDP Official Opposition, issued the following statement today regarding a letter sent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":80701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-albertas-ndp-caucus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242462","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=242462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242463,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242462\/revisions\/242463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}