{"id":787,"date":"2010-03-05T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=787"},"modified":"2010-03-06T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T08:32:20","slug":"budget-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There weren&#8217;t too many surprises in this federal budget, which coming from these clowns is a surprise in itself.<\/p>\n<p>There was a provision for some money to create some attractive post-doctoral positions across Canada. At $70k each, these are decent grants (roughly double the typical post-doc salary)&#8230; but with only 140 country-wide, this isn&#8217;t going to hit very many people (i.e.: I probably won&#8217;t get one).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the large text giveth, and the small text taketh away. The budget also removed a loophole for some post-docs to get paid tax-free: scholarship income is now only tax-free for &#8220;real&#8221; students. I don&#8217;t know of any at Western that were getting paid this way, but presumably it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There weren&#8217;t too many surprises in this federal budget, which coming from these clowns is a surprise in itself. There was a provision for some money to create some attractive post-doctoral positions across Canada. At $70k each, these are decent grants (roughly double the typical post-doc salary)&#8230; but with only 140 country-wide, this isn&#8217;t going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}