{"id":4482,"date":"2014-03-17T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2014-03-17T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:32:38","slug":"saskatchewan-changes-how-buildings-and-geographic-features-are-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/17\/saskatchewan-changes-how-buildings-and-geographic-features-are-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan changes how buildings and geographic features are named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Barnhart-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4483\" alt=\"Barnhart-crop\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Barnhart-crop-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Barnhart-crop-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Barnhart-crop.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>REGINA\u2014Saskatchewan is bringing in changes that would see every former premier honoured with their name on a government building or geographic feature.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were recommended by former lieutenant-governor Gordon Barnhart, who looked at ways to ensure names are chosen in a consistent and fair way.<\/p>\n<p>Barnhart says it&#8217;s important to remember the history of the province.<\/p>\n<p>He says several former premiers have never been recognized, including Frederick Haultain, who was premier of the North-West Territories\u2014the area that is now Alberta and Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>Barnhart also says there should be a permanent, non-partisan naming committee.<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations including recognizing people who are still alive, as well as First Nations leaders or soldiers, police officers and firefighters who died on duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo REGINA\u2014Saskatchewan is bringing in changes that would see every former premier honoured with their name on a government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1140,1139],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-geographic-features","tag-saskatchewan","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","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=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}