{"id":750155,"date":"2026-06-20T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:29:10","slug":"jim-dinn-urges-minister-to-scrap-bus-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750155\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Dinn Urges Minister to Scrap Bus Changes"},"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\/06\/1781987350_700_ndp-leader-jim-dinn-may-5-2026.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Jim Dinn Urges Minister to Scrap Bus Changes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NDP Leader Jim Dinn (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>NDP Leader Jim Dinn has written the transportation minister urging him not to proceed with plans to change school start and dismissal times.<\/p>\n<p>Dinn says the minister himself had admitted that the move is being driven by an attempt to cut costs, rather than student safety or improved services. <\/p>\n<p>Dinn told the minister that government is ultimately paying for its promise to eliminate the 1.6 km business policy, \u201c\u2026on the backs of school communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges, which could push some school start and dismissal times ahead or back by up to one hour, are proposed to come into effect for the 2027-2028 school year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NDP Leader Jim Dinn (VOCM News) NDP Leader Jim Dinn has written the transportation minister urging him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-750155","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\/750155","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=750155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}