{"id":264327,"date":"2025-11-05T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:19:27","slug":"carney-liberals-focus-on-health-infrastructure-but-no-new-funding-for-mental-health-substance-use-programs-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264327\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney Liberals focus on health infrastructure, but no new funding for mental health, substance use programs in budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tA number of health programs\u2014including the Emergency Treatment Fund\u2014will expire in 2026-27, delaying decisions for some programs into the future. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6L8A3688_2-e1759443029782.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFederal Minister of Health Marjorie Michel. The federal budget has little to no mention of investments for health initiatives that have been a focus in previous years such as mental health, pharmacare, and substance use and addictions.\u00a0 The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of health programs\u2014including the Emergency Treatment Fund\u2014will expire in 2026-27, delaying decisions for some programs into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-264327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}