{"id":491454,"date":"2026-02-22T05:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:53:40","slug":"call-the-election-ndp-demands-as-smith-defends-immigration-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491454\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Call the election,\u2019 NDP demands as Smith defends immigration vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Call the election,\u2019 NDP demands as Smith defends immigration vote\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Alberta\u2019s NDP is demanding a general election rather than a referendum on 9 questions, including limiting immigration and provincial services for newcomers. But as Sean Amato reports, the premier says the criticisms she\u2019s facing are \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-since card-text\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 20, 2026 6:09 pm MST MST\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Call the election,\u2019 NDP demands as Smith defends immigration vote Alberta\u2019s NDP is demanding a general election rather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-491454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491454","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=491454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}