{"id":498131,"date":"2026-02-25T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:06:11","slug":"why-ottawa-must-make-988-funding-stable-and-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498131\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ottawa must make 988 funding stable and secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tMental health care must be accessible, reliable, and permanent regardless of who is in government. Lives depend on it.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-20-Feb-2026-03-01-PM-5200.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tConservative MP Todd Doherty, left, and NDP MP Gord Johns have rightly called on Ottawa to make federal funding for 988 permanent, writes Andrew Perez.  The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright and Andrew Meade                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mental health care must be accessible, reliable, and permanent regardless of who is in government. Lives depend on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-498131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498131","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=498131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}