{"id":43397,"date":"2025-07-28T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43397\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:59:04","slug":"ottawa-b-c-provide-77m-to-bring-high-speed-internet-to-nearly-7000-households-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43397\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, B.C. provide $77M to bring high-speed internet to nearly 7,000 households | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6887d5ac023d1607fa6fc337jpeg.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 28, 2025 | 12:55 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ARMSTRONG, B.C. \u2014 The federal and B.C. governments are providing more than $77 million in combined funding to bring high-speed internet to more than 6,900 homes in the province.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada says the funding is part of an agreement struck in 2022 that committed up to $830 million to bridge the high-speed gap in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the latest funding will support 15 projects through the Universal Broadband Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the jointly funded projects, it says the federal government is providing $7 million to bring a high-speed connection to 727 households in the communities of Hullcar, Spallumcheen and the Splatsin First Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press Jul 28, 2025 | 12:55 PM ARMSTRONG, B.C. \u2014 The federal and B.C. governments are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4,34699,174,34693,34700,34692,34694,34695,3,34696,34697,34698,99,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-43397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-central-vancouver-island","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-nanaimo","12":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","13":"tag-nanaimo-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","15":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oceanside","18":"tag-parksville","19":"tag-qualicum","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}