{"id":33538,"date":"2021-01-20T02:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=33538"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:23:57","slug":"waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Region Weekly Roundup: The 2021 budget and police funding"},"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;\">The Region of Waterloo will finalize it\u2019s 2021 budget this month. Calls from the community to reallocate funds from policing into more upstream services has led to, as one councillor declared, an unprecedented interest in the police budget this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week\u2019s Waterloo Region Weekly Round-up takes a look at how we got here, diving into police board discussions and delegations from community residents in support of reallocation of funds towards Indigenous and Black-led community initiatives.<\/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 The Region of Waterloo will finalize it\u2019s 2021 budget this month. Calls from the community to reallocate funds from policing into more upstream services has led to, as one councillor declared, an unprecedented interest in the police budget this year. This week\u2019s Waterloo Region Weekly Round-up takes a look at how we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":33540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,3265],"tags":[598,5164,5163,5165,4054],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33538"}],"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=33538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33538"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=33538"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=33538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}