{"id":51099,"date":"2015-06-02T01:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51099"},"modified":"2015-06-02T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:28:15","slug":"nova-scotia-ndp-to-pay-back-monies-spent-on-pamphlets-during-byelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/02\/nova-scotia-ndp-to-pay-back-monies-spent-on-pamphlets-during-byelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia NDP to pay back monies spent on pamphlets during byelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11099\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11099\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Elections Nova Scotia says the provincial New Democrats have admitted to breaking advertising rules by sending out partisan materials at taxpayer expense during a byelection.<\/p>\n<p>A release says the party has agreed to pay back $2,100 spent on brochures that went to 12,700 homes in the electoral district of Dartmouth-South.<\/p>\n<p>Party spokesman Mark Laventure has said the party failed to take into consideration the rules prohibiting a publicly funded mailout during a byelection period.<\/p>\n<p>Elections Nova Scotia has earlier investigated the Liberal caucus, which sent 33,000 flyers into the vacant ridings of Cape Breton Centre, Sydney-Whitney Pier and Dartmouth South during the third week of May.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Stephen McNeil has said his party wasn&#8217;t clear on the rules and will pay the $7,000 cost of their mailouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Elections Nova Scotia says the provincial New Democrats have admitted to breaking advertising rules by sending out partisan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099","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=51099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}