{"id":26427,"date":"2020-12-10T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=26427"},"modified":"2020-12-11T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:38:07","slug":"waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Region Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m2bowman\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melissa Bowman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s city budget season and we\u2019ll kick that off by taking a look at Kitchener\u2019s preliminary budget which includes a rather passionate discussion around whether to try to get the proposed 1.1% tax increase down to 0%. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ll also discuss the Region\u2019s recent decision to close its 5 regionally-operated child care centres in 2021, resulting in the loss of over 200 existing child care spaces as well as the equivalent of 62 full time positions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, we\u2019ll look at some other stories worth keeping an eye on, including the Integrity Commissioner's recent announcement regarding Wilmot mayor Les Armstrong\u2019s Facebook post earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out the archived versions of\u00a0 this program and other episodes on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/radiowaterloo.ca\/news\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">radiowaterloo.ca\/news<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">., and other stories commissioned under the Local Journalism Initiative at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">canada-info.ca<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can\u00a0 follow us on twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/radiowaterloo\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@RadioWaterloo<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at news@radiowaterloo.ca<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Melissa Bowman It\u2019s city budget season and we\u2019ll kick that off by taking a look at Kitchener\u2019s preliminary budget which includes a rather passionate discussion around whether to try to get the proposed 1.1% tax increase down to 0%. We\u2019ll also discuss the Region\u2019s recent decision to close its 5 regionally-operated child care centres&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[4053,4054],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=26427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}