{"id":14403,"date":"2020-05-14T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:32:09","slug":"municipal-elections-a-go-in-n-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14403","title":{"rendered":"Municipal elections a go in N.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The Municipal Elections scheduled for October 17, 2020 will\u00a0go\u00a0ahead as scheduled, the organization representing Nova Scotia&#8217;s municipalities said.<br \/><br \/>In a letter addressed to NSFM President Pam Mood, Minister Chuck Porter writes that the request to postpone the elections &#8220;was examined,&#8221; but the decision was ultimately made to go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>&#8220;We are aware of a number of municipalities with vacancies on council who are holding off on filing those vacancies pending the October election,&#8221; the Minister writes in his two-page letter.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;If we delay elections beyond October, there will be thousands of Nova Scotians who will not have a representative at the table when those councils make important decisions on the future of their communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: The Municipal Elections scheduled for October 17, 2020 will\u00a0go\u00a0ahead as scheduled, the organization representing Nova Scotia&#8217;s municipalities said. In a letter addressed to NSFM President Pam Mood, Minister Chuck Porter writes that the request to postpone the elections &#8220;was examined,&#8221; but the decision was ultimately made to go ahead. [adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;] &#8220;We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,2,1091],"class_list":["post-14403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-fall-river","tag-municipal-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}