{"id":761170,"date":"2026-06-25T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761170\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:50:17","slug":"to-build-a-national-power-grid-ottawa-should-open-its-chequebook-not-the-constitution-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761170\/","title":{"rendered":"To build a national power grid, Ottawa should open its chequebook, not the Constitution &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada was built around a railway. The country&#8217;s next unifying project runs along many of the same rights of way, but it carries electrons instead of freight.<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\" style=\"float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada was built around a railway. The country&#8217;s next unifying project runs along many of the same rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-761170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761170","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=761170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}