{"id":678637,"date":"2026-05-19T01:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:28:28","slug":"councillor-suggests-restricting-city-subsidy-program-to-canadian-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678637\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor suggests restricting city subsidy program to Canadian citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 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 2:19<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">The Fair Entry program provides discounts for services like transit, recreation centres, snow shovelling and grass cutting. It&#8217;s available to any Calgary resident who meets the low-income threshold set by Statistics Canada. Coun. Landon Johnston says it should be limited to Canadian citizens, amid growing demand and budget pressures at city hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 hours agoNewsDuration 2:19 The Fair Entry program provides discounts for services like transit, recreation centres, snow shovelling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-678637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678637","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=678637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}