{"id":646236,"date":"2026-05-04T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:56:18","slug":"fines-possible-for-those-not-wearing-life-jackets-on-waterways-within-edmonton-city-limits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646236\/","title":{"rendered":"Fines possible for those not wearing life-jackets on waterways within Edmonton city limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the North Saskatchewan River is a popular spot for people to float down, many do so without proper safety equipment. The City of Edmonton says those using local waterways should always wear a life-jacket, and that failure to do so could result in a $250 fine. Ward O-Day&#8217;Min Councillor Anne Stevenson says the fines are not about generating revenue, but making sure people are taking river safety seriously. Gates Guarin has the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the North Saskatchewan River is a popular spot for people to float down, many do so without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[204855,49,48,105143,23752,215565,240556],"class_list":["post-646236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-anne-stevenson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city-of-edmonton","tag-edmonton","tag-north-saskatchewan-river","tag-proper-safety-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646236","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=646236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}