{"id":90,"date":"2003-11-10T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2003-11-10T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T17:47:23","slug":"everyone-else-is-voting-why-cant-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/everyone-else-is-voting-why-cant-i\/","title":{"rendered":"everyone else is voting, why can&#8217;t I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s municipal election day here in Toronto. I&#8217;m a Toronto resident, homeowner, and taxpayer. Yet I can&#8217;t vote, because I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.toronto.on.ca\/vote2003\/faq.htm#who\">not a Canadian citizen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand not being able to vote in federal or provincial elections, but I&#8217;m as much of a citizen as anyone else living in Toronto. Toronto has such a vast immigrant population that many people are disenfranchised. Perhaps that&#8217;s why the city is failing to provide for its citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s municipal election day here in Toronto. I&#8217;m a Toronto resident, homeowner, and taxpayer. Yet I can&#8217;t vote, because I&#8217;m not a Canadian citizen. I can understand not being able to vote in federal or provincial elections, but I&#8217;m as much of a citizen as anyone else living in Toronto. Toronto has such a vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[930,1298,62,43],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-election","tag-fail","tag-rant","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}