{"id":6266,"date":"2023-11-15T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2023-11-15T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:51:14","slug":"virtual-online-public-participation-is-now-possible-at-in-person-hrm-meetings-15nov2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6266","title":{"rendered":"Virtual (online) public participation is now possible at in-person HRM meetings 15Nov2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-15-at-6.45.36-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6267\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-15-at-6.45.36-AM-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-15-at-6.45.36-AM-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-15-at-6.45.36-AM-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-15-at-6.45.36-AM.png 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So writes Matt Stickland in The Coast<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the recurring complaints about citizen participation at municipal meetings is that it\u2019s hard\u2014logistically and practically taxing\u2014to speak at public meetings. It\u2019s hard for people who work the 9-to-5 grind to speak on a weekday at 10am, 1pm or 6pm. And it\u2019s hard for people on the fringes, the Ecum Secums of the world, to drive two hours to City Hall, just to speak for five minutes. But that all changes today&#8230;&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>Read more in \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoast.ca\/news-opinion\/its-never-been-easier-to-yell-at-councillors-31847028\">It\u2019s never been easier to yell at councillors<\/a> by Matt Stickland in <em>The Coast,<\/em> Nov 14, 2023<\/p>\n<p><em>Thx Matt, Thx HRM<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So writes Matt Stickland in The Coast &#8220;One of the recurring complaints about citizen participation at municipal meetings is that it\u2019s hard\u2014logistically and practically taxing\u2014to speak at public meetings. It\u2019s hard for people who work the 9-to-5 grind to speak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}