{"id":30073,"date":"2014-10-31T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30073"},"modified":"2014-10-31T01:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:17:58","slug":"alberta-premier-jim-prentice-to-meet-with-lubicon-band-chief-over-land-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/31\/alberta-premier-jim-prentice-to-meet-with-lubicon-band-chief-over-land-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Premier Jim Prentice to meet with Lubicon band chief over land claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14573\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14573\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-5.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Prentice (Facebook photo)\" width=\"468\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-5.jpg 468w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-5-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Prentice (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON &#8212; Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is heading to northern Alberta for talks with an aboriginal band that has been seeking land in the heart of the oilsands region for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Prentice is to sit down with Chief Billy Joe Laboucan and council from the Lubicon Lake Band, which has been trying to work out a land claim since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Internal tensions over the years caused the band to split into two.<\/p>\n<p>One, headed by Laboucan, is recognized by the federal government while the other, headed by Bernard Omniyak, is not.<\/p>\n<p>Omniyak&#8217;s followers have protested the growth of the energy industry on what they call their lands and have taken the province to court.<\/p>\n<p>Prentice may be the first premier to travel to Lubicon territory to meet with its leaders since Don Getty a generation ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is heading to northern Alberta for talks with an aboriginal band that has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30073","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\/30073","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=30073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}