{"id":539221,"date":"2026-03-16T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:32:08","slug":"province-approves-winnipegs-request-to-use-2-ground-squirrel-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539221\/","title":{"rendered":"Province approves Winnipeg&#8217;s request to use 2 ground squirrel pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 2:11<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">The city says it will begin using an anticoagulant bait and an asphyxiant foam this spring to control the rodent population at nine athletic fields. Animal right advocates, who initially asked the province to refuse the permit, are worried the use of both pesticides will result in slow and painful deaths for squirrels as well as risks for other species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 hours agoNewsDuration 2:11 The city says it will begin using an anticoagulant bait and an asphyxiant foam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-539221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539221","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=539221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}