{"id":82906,"date":"2026-04-29T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=82906"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:54:01","slug":"wednesday-morning-news-april-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/wednesday-morning-news-april-29-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning News &#8211; April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table mrgn-bttm-md textforecast\" style=\"height: 89px;\" width=\"600\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<tbody data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<tr class=\"pdg-btm-0\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/en\/forecast\/hourly\/index.html?coords=47.994,-84.774\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\"><strong title=\"Wednesday\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Today<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Cloudy. High plus 4. UV index 4 or moderate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"pdg-tp-0\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\"><strong title=\"Wednesday night\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Tonight<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Cloudy with 40% chance of flurries. Wind up to 15 km\/h. Low -minus 1. Wind chill -5 overnight.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How disappointing to see snow flurries as I drank my morning coffee today. Hopefully not to accumulate.<\/li>\n<li>The federal health minister Majorie Michel says she is considering legislation that would permanently ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2008. Canada&#8217;s goal is to reduce tobacco use to less than five per cent by 2035.<\/li>\n<li>There have now been two moose killed on Hwy 17 between Wawa and White River. Drive with care.<\/li>\n<li>Hwy 17 still has one westbound lane and shoulder closed on the Old Woman Bay Hill due to a failed culvert. This incident began at <span class=\"text-nowrap\">9:44 p.m. on April 26th.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Today Cloudy. High plus 4. UV index 4 or moderate. Tonight Cloudy with 40% chance of flurries. Wind up to 15 km\/h. Low -minus 1. Wind chill -5 overnight. News Tidbits: How disappointing to see snow flurries as I drank my morning coffee today. Hopefully not to accumulate. The federal health minister Majorie Michel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 10:15:04","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\/82906","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82910,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82906\/revisions\/82910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}