{"id":32878,"date":"2014-11-27T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32878"},"modified":"2014-11-27T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:00:41","slug":"alberta-premier-allows-free-vote-for-bill-on-straight-gay-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/27\/alberta-premier-allows-free-vote-for-bill-on-straight-gay-alliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta premier allows free vote for bill on straight gay alliances"},"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 says he will allow his caucus members to vote their conscience on a bill directing schools to allow gay-straight alliances.<\/p>\n<p>Prentice says Bill 202 is not one that lends itself to members being told how to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The private member&#8217;s bill, introduced by the Liberals, directs schools to allow students to set up the alliances if they so wish.<\/p>\n<p>The alliances are support networks that give support to gay students and prevent them from being bullied.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say the alliances have been proven to reduce suicide among gay youth.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP plans to support the bill while the Wildrose party says it wants to see changes to allow faith-based schools to opt out but still provide a safe atmosphere for all students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he will allow his caucus members to vote their conscience on a bill &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-32878","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\/32878","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=32878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/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=32878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}