{"id":946856,"date":"2026-10-26T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946856\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T11:34:09","slug":"government-making-affordability-announcement-at-motor-vehicle-ahead-of-fall-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946856\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Making Affordability Announcement at Motor Vehicle Ahead of Fall Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nl-government-sign.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Government Making Affordability Announcement at Motor Vehicle Ahead of Fall Sitting\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be hearing more \u201cbread and butter\u201d talk today from the provincial government at a news conference in Mount Pearl. <\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have details of the package but the location tells us that the measure will have a lot do with the expense of owning and driving a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The news conference is slated for 10:30 at the Motor Vehicle in Mount Pearl. Finance Minister Craig Pardy will be joined by two members of the PC Caucus: St. George\u2019s-Humber MHA Hal Cormier and Lewisporte Twillingate MHA Mark Butt. <\/p>\n<p>VOCM News will be there. <\/p>\n<p>Later today, the House of Assembly opens for the fall sitting and opposition parties are expected to press government to do more to help people with the cost of living. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) We\u2019ll be hearing more \u201cbread and butter\u201d talk today from the provincial government at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-946856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946856","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=946856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}