{"id":2930,"date":"2014-02-26T01:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2014-02-26T01:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:55:22","slug":"taxpayers-federation-announces-porkbarrel-awards-as-big-city-mayors-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/26\/taxpayers-federation-announces-porkbarrel-awards-as-big-city-mayors-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers federation announces porkbarrel awards as big city mayors meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/487976_10151964671013910_1560640572_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2931\" alt=\"487976_10151964671013910_1560640572_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/487976_10151964671013910_1560640572_n.png\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/487976_10151964671013910_1560640572_n.png 180w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/487976_10151964671013910_1560640572_n-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Canadian Taxpayers Federation<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Canada&#8217;s top pork-barrellers will be on full display in Ottawa as the Canadian Taxpayers Federation announces the Teddies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 16th year for the awards, which are handed out by the federation to highlight waste of tax dollars at every level of government.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t expect anyone to actually pick up their award.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation comes as big city mayors meet in Ottawa, hoping to convince the Harper government to fork over more money for roads, sewers and other infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, after years of boycotting such meetings, is expected to attend the gathering to argue in favour of exceptional funding for his city&#8217;s subway expansion plan.<\/p>\n<p>Other events in Ottawa today include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 the major political parties will hold their weekly gabfests, otherwise known as caucus meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Parliament will hold a non-binding take-note debate on the crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Parliamentary secretary Kelly Block will speak about the Harper government&#8217;s investments in clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 And Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will speak to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture&#8217;s annual meeting. So will the NDP&#8217;s agriculture critic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Canadian Taxpayers Federation OTTAWA &#8211; Canada&#8217;s top pork-barrellers will be on full display in Ottawa as the Canadian Taxpayers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-canada-taxpayers","mauthors-terry-pedwell","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}