{"id":8724,"date":"2025-06-03T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:12:08","slug":"federal-government-to-match-red-cross-donations-to-help-wildfire-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-to-match-red-cross-donations-to-help-wildfire-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government to match Red Cross donations to help wildfire victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government says it will match donations made to the Canadian Red Cross as wildfires tear across the Prairies, forcing thousands from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Parliament Hill Tuesday, Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said the money will go toward wildfire relief and disaster recovery. <\/p>\n<p>The provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will also match donations, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government says it will match donations made to the Canadian Red Cross as wildfires tear across the Prairies, forcing thousands from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Parliament Hill Tuesday, Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said the money will go toward wildfire relief and disaster recovery. <\/p>\n<p>The provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will also match donations, she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/federal-government-to-match-red-cross-donations-to-help-wildfire-victims\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal government to match Red Cross donations to help wildfire victims<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,1339,126,1105,207,165],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-canadian-red-cross","tag-climate-crisis","tag-government-of-canada","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}