{"id":40313,"date":"2021-02-22T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=40313"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:50:20","slug":"waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/waterloo-region-weekly-roundup-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Region Weekly Roundup: Affordable housing and children&#8217;s centre closures"},"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;\">In this week\u2019s episode, CKMS will once again update on some of the affordable housing issues that local municipalities are involved in. The Region of Waterloo council shared an update about where things currently stand since approving the closure of the five regionally-operated children\u2019s centres.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, communities that are racialized and\/or marginalized have been impacted more deeply by this pandemic. CKMS share an update from a recent regional council public health board meeting that discussed this issue and some of the plans stemming from that meeting.\u00a0<\/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 In this week\u2019s episode, CKMS will once again update on some of the affordable housing issues that local municipalities are involved in. The Region of Waterloo council shared an update about where things currently stand since approving the closure of the five regionally-operated children\u2019s centres.\u00a0 Also, communities that are racialized and\/or marginalized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":40347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[579,4053,571,4054],"radio":[],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313"}],"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=40313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=40313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}