{"id":53967,"date":"2020-01-30T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=53967"},"modified":"2020-01-30T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:44:07","slug":"ontario-to-spend-extra-1-6b-stabilizing-hydro-rates-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/ontario-to-spend-extra-1-6b-stabilizing-hydro-rates-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to spend extra $1.6B stabilizing hydro rates, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario will spend $1.6 billion more this fiscal year to stabilize increasing hydro rates for customers across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Rod Phillips says the government will exceed the $4 billion it has previously budgeted to keep prices stable \u2014 bringing the total spend to $5.6 billion.<\/p>\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-6\"><\/section>\n<p>He made the announcement Thursday as Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government provided a quarterly update on its finances.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government said last March it would continue to subsidize hydro rates and hold any increases to the rate of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>CBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-53968\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario will spend $1.6 billion more this fiscal year to stabilize increasing hydro rates for customers across the province. Finance Minister Rod Phillips says the government will exceed the $4 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":53968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538],"tags":[4864],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hydro-rates-increased-1.8-per-cent-last-year-or-about-1.99-for-a-typical-residential-customer.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}