{"id":1907,"date":"2010-03-17T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:29:55","slug":"benefits-for-brock-in-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/benefits-for-brock-in-the-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits for Brock in the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jack Lightstone wrote an opinion piece, \u201cBenefits for Brock in the budget,\u201d that appeared in the March 11 issue of the <em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em>. The article gives his thoughts on the recent federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered his budget speech on Thursday, he signaled a new era of austerity in federal spending.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with diminished tax revenues and a ballooning debt from the stimulus spending required to bolster a badly wounded economy &#8212; both the result of a major economic recession &#8212; announcements of new spending were understandably limited. Even with no massive cuts announced, just holding pat on most current spending will inevitably require serious belt tightening in all federal ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, what is heartening is Ottawa&#8217;s commitment to research, innovation and the place of university researchers in building a stronger Canada. Of the limited new funds announced in the budget, a major proportion is dedicated to research and innovation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scstandard.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2482908\" target=\"_blank\">Benefits for Brock in the budget &#8211; St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jack Lightstone wrote an opinion piece, \u201cBenefits for Brock in the budget,\u201d that appeared in the March 11 issue of the St. Catharines Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"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=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}