{"id":11975,"date":"2011-09-14T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2011-09-15T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:05:32","slug":"observatory-examines-representation-on-municipal-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/observatory-examines-representation-on-municipal-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Observatory examines representation on municipal councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/nco\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara Community Observatory<\/a> will release a report on representation on municipal councils this week.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory will present its latest policy brief, &#8220;Representation on Municipal Councils in Ontario&#8221; on Thursday, Sept. 15 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Newman Room, at the Four Points Sheraton, Schmon Parkway, Thorold.<\/p>\n<p>The brief explores how regional councillors and regional chairs are selected in a number of jurisdictions in Ontario, as compared to Niagara. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods.<\/p>\n<p>The brief will be presented by David Siegel of the Niagara Community Observatory. It will be followed by a short question and answer period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Community Observatory will release a report on representation on municipal councils this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}