{"id":814091,"date":"2026-07-20T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:07:12","slug":"us-ambassador-hoekstra-to-speak-at-edmonton-conference-on-regional-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814091\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador Hoekstra to speak at Edmonton conference on regional partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US 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&#8217;s annual summit says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/tags\/pete-hoekstra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hoekstra<\/a> is to talk about how regional partnerships support cross-border relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The organization was established in 1991 by five US 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/tags\/Danielle-Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danielle Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda says Smith is to give a keynote speech about energy and trade opportunities and how the region is set to benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics at the conference include forest management, artificial intelligence, agriculture and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Ambassador to Canada is set to speak in Edmonton today at a regional economic conference. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-814091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814091","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=814091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}