{"id":916262,"date":"2026-10-01T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:40:20","slug":"vancouver-mayoral-candidates-on-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916262\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver mayoral candidates on public safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Vancouver mayoral candidate says converting portions of a hospital into an involuntary care facility is essentially building a prison downtown. The proposal is one of two plebiscite questions in the upcoming municipal election and part of Ken Sim&#8217;s plan to tackle public safety. Alissa Thibault has more on how other candidates propose to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver mayoral candidate says converting portions of a hospital into an involuntary care facility is essentially building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[315943,49,48,94758,91414,55],"class_list":["post-916262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-alissa-thibault","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mayoral-candidate","tag-municipal-election","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916262","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=916262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}