{"id":71500,"date":"2025-08-15T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:42:08","slug":"haggie-receiving-praise-for-blunt-message-to-those-verbally-abusing-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71500\/","title":{"rendered":"Haggie Receiving Praise for Blunt Message to Those Verbally Abusing Public Servants"},"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\/2025\/08\/public-safety-minister-john-haggie.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Haggie Receiving Praise for Blunt Message to Those Verbally Abusing Public Servants\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Government of Newfoundland and Labrador\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<p>Public safety minister John Haggie is receiving praise on social media for his blunt response to verbal abuse that some public servants have had to endure in the last few days. <\/p>\n<p>Premier John Hogan first brought up the situation during yesterday\u2019s fire briefing. <\/p>\n<p>He says some people have been using a tip line set up by government to vent their frustrations about decisions that have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Haggie did not hold back when it was time to share his thoughts on the situation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for those assholes who were on the phone yesterday talking crap to our staff \u2013 stop it. You\u2019re the same people who trolled us during COVID. It was unacceptable then, and it\u2019s unacceptable now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador\/YouTube) Public safety minister John Haggie is receiving praise on social media for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-71500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500","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=71500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}