{"id":783730,"date":"2026-07-06T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783730\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:32:11","slug":"smith-to-host-stampede-breakfast-after-mixed-reception-at-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783730\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith to host stampede breakfast after mixed reception at parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The increased cost of living hasn\u2019t stopped these Canadians from visiting the Calgary Stampede, but they\u2019re keeping a strict budget. Kathy Le reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 Danielle Smith will have a bright-and-early start today flipping pancakes at the Premier\u2019s Stampede Breakfast in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The annual event at the McDougall Centre typically includes cabinet ministers and caucus members, and the premier\u2019s office said about 4,000 people attended last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Staff say last year\u2019s turnout was the largest in over a decade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the Calgary Stampede parade on Friday, Smith heard both cheers and jeers while riding shotgun on a horse-drawn wagon that clip-clopped through the city\u2019s downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The parade came a day after Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney jointly announced a new West Coast pipeline proposal, which she framed as a nation-building project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Smith has enjoyed strong poll support in her term, though those numbers have slipped amid the recent debate on whether Alberta should separate from Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The increased cost of living hasn\u2019t stopped these Canadians from visiting the Calgary Stampede, but they\u2019re keeping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,17128],"class_list":["post-783730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-prairies-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783730","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=783730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}