{"id":28752,"date":"2014-10-14T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28752"},"modified":"2014-10-14T00:50:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:50:25","slug":"harper-sets-november-date-for-federal-byelections-in-ontario-and-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/14\/harper-sets-november-date-for-federal-byelections-in-ontario-and-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper sets November date for federal byelections in Ontario and Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28795\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg\" alt=\"PM Harper in Whitby (Photo courtesy of PM Stephen Harper's official Facebook page.)\" width=\"960\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Stephen-Harper1-900x650.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PM Harper in Whitby (Photo courtesy of PM Stephen Harper&#8217;s official Facebook page.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper has set Nov. 17 for two federal byelections in Ontario and Alberta, including the seat occupied by late finance minister Jim Flaherty.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will go to the polls in Whitby-Oshawa in Ontario and Yellowhead in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Both seats were held by the Tories.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitby-Oshawa riding was vacated with Flaherty&#8217;s death this April, while former Yellowhead MP Rob Merrifield bowed out last month to work as that province&#8217;s envoy to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Harper himself made a campaign-style stop in Whitby last week, announcing his government will be doubling the child fitness tax credit as promised.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wins the ridings will spend less than a year in office before hitting the campaign trail again, as the national voting day is Oct. 19, 2015, unless the government chooses to drop the writ sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper has set Nov. 17 for two federal byelections in Ontario and Alberta, including the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28752","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=28752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}