{"id":11915,"date":"2026-04-26T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/global-affairs-canada-spent-59k-on-artwork-for-milan-consulate-building-juno-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:05:33","slug":"global-affairs-canada-spent-59k-on-artwork-for-milan-consulate-building-juno-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/global-affairs-canada-spent-59k-on-artwork-for-milan-consulate-building-juno-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Affairs Canada spent $59k on artwork for Milan consulate building &#8211; Juno News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a government waste watchdog and taxpayer advocacy group, is calling out Canada\u2019s foreign affairs ministry after records revealed the department spent $59,000 to decorate its consulate in Milan, Italy.<br \/>The records obtained primarily through an Order Paper Question in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Vincent Ho show pieces of art include an \u201cupcycled\u201d pink cowboy boot purchased at a thrift store and a mitten on a stick.<br \/>Unlike the legacy media, Juno News receives ZERO tax-dollars. Help us fight Ottawa\u2019s censorship regime. Become a Juno News premium subscriber today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibkFVX3lxTE1pSGxmc21yampBSjBIQ0tsbHRLU2ZLenhwYUdGU2dsVnctNlFEdExVcjBhTmV0TENfTkZtSUlLZ2JtTWNsRGQ3U1JJc240M214dUJxRERjSjJfLWNPdzN3eXZqY2N2RjJaY193aFB3?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a government waste watchdog and taxpayer advocacy group, is calling out Canada\u2019s foreign affairs ministry after records revealed the department spent $59,000 to decorate its consulate in Milan, Italy.The records obtained primarily through an Order Paper Question in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Vincent Ho show pieces of art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}