{"id":691587,"date":"2026-05-25T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:20:11","slug":"john-steele-urges-youth-to-push-for-better-business-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691587\/","title":{"rendered":"John Steele Urges Youth to Push for Better Business Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/junior-achievement-hall-of-fall-john-steele.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"John Steele Urges Youth to Push for Better Business Conditions\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Steele (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A well-known St. John\u2019s businessman is encouraging young people to advocate for better conditions for businesses to thrive in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Long Play Capital CEO and concert promoter John Steele accepted an induction for himself, and his late mother Catherine Steele, into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>During his induction speech, Steele stated that he \u201cloves Newfoundland, but (he\u2019s) exasperated by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says there\u2019s a lot of potential in the province, but due to it\u2019s history \u201cwe tend to be shackled by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Confederation,\u00a0Steele says business never picked people out of poverty. Joining Canada improved the quality of life through government programs, he states, but now young entrepreneurs need\u00a0to advocate for better conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s realize that we have many opportunities and it will take all of our talent, it will take all of our effort, it will take all of us working together to form a better business environment so this beautiful province and its people can share the loaf, not the crumbs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; John Steele (VOCM News) A well-known St. John\u2019s businessman is encouraging young people to advocate for better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-691587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691587","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=691587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}