{"id":4900,"date":"2014-03-23T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2014-03-23T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:25:15","slug":"redford-out-dave-hancock-to-be-sworn-in-today-as-albertas-acting-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/23\/redford-out-dave-hancock-to-be-sworn-in-today-as-albertas-acting-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Redford out, Dave Hancock to be sworn in today as Alberta&#8217;s acting premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4901\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/295001_212050482245228_405609877_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4901\" alt=\"Dave with his wife. Photo: Facebook Page of Dave Hancock\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/295001_212050482245228_405609877_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/295001_212050482245228_405609877_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/295001_212050482245228_405609877_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/295001_212050482245228_405609877_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave with his wife.<br \/>Photo: Facebook Page of Dave Hancock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON &#8211; Alberta&#8217;s new premier officially starts work today.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Hancock will be sworn in as acting premier at Government House.<\/p>\n<p>He takes over from Alison Redford, who announced her resignation Wednesday over criticism about her spending habits and personality.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock, who is deputy premier as well as the longest-serving minister in cabinet, was selected by the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The PC party executive is to meet Monday to set out the timeline for a leadership race.<\/p>\n<p>Hancock says he will not be a candidate for a permanent replacement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8211; Alberta&#8217;s new premier officially starts work today. Dave Hancock will be sworn in as acting premier at Government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1298],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-dave-hancock","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","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=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}