{"id":813826,"date":"2026-07-20T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:54:16","slug":"u-s-ambassador-hoekstra-set-to-speak-at-edmonton-conference-on-regional-partnerships-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813826\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra set to speak at Edmonton conference on regional partnerships | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784537656_682_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, left, talks with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith prior to the arrival of President Donald Trump in Calgary, Sunday, June 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 20, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 The U.S. Ambassador to Canada is set to speak in Edmonton today at a regional economic conference.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region\u2019s annual summit says Pete Hoekstra is to talk about how regional partnerships support cross-border relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The organization was established in 1991 by five U.S. states, three western provinces and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to promote collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Many politicians and industry officials on both sides of the border are scheduled to speak at the conference, including Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, left, talks with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith prior to the arrival of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,23752,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-813826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-edmonton","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813826","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=813826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}