{"id":72079,"date":"2025-02-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=72079"},"modified":"2025-02-18T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:33:10","slug":"local-environment-and-conservation-groups-send-survey-to-provincial-election-candidates-in-algoma-manitoulin-ssm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/local-environment-and-conservation-groups-send-survey-to-provincial-election-candidates-in-algoma-manitoulin-ssm\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Environment and Conservation Groups Send Survey to Provincial Election Candidates in Algoma-Manitoulin &#038; SSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do Algoma-Manitoulin and Sault Ste. Marie provincial election candidates and their parties stand on environmental issues? A coalition of Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie environmental and conservation groups have released a survey that has been sent to candidates in the ridings of Algoma-Manitoulin and Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition includes Sault Climate Hub, Sault Naturalists, The Kensington Conservancy and Lake Superior Watershed Conservancy. These groups represent several thousand concerned citizens through memberships and followers.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the survey is to learn the candidates&#8217; positions on key environmental issues affecting our communities, our economy, our people, and our air, land, and water.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was sent by email to each candidate on February 13<sup>th<\/sup> and the deadline for return is February 20<sup>th<\/sup>. The results will be made available to the public through social media, websites, and local news outlets by February 23<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition encourages voters to ask candidates about their positions on key environmental issues affecting our region such as climate change, air pollution, water protection, recycling, and the plastics crisis.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a candidate in either riding and you have not received the survey or would like it sent again, please contact <span class=\"v1wt_Email\">saultclimatehub@gmail.com<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition and the public thank candidates for taking a few minutes of their time to let us know your and your parties perspectives on these pressing environmental issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do Algoma-Manitoulin and Sault Ste. Marie provincial election candidates and their parties stand on environmental issues? A coalition of Algoma and Sault Ste. Marie environmental and conservation groups have released a survey that has been sent to candidates in the ridings of Algoma-Manitoulin and Sault Ste. Marie. The coalition includes Sault Climate Hub, Sault &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 15:16:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72080,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079\/revisions\/72080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}