{
  "id": 17043945,
  "title": "William Watson: Ottawa needs to inventory its walking-dead policies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/william-watson-ottawa-needs-to-inventory-its-walking-dead-policies",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-29T10:00:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Financial Post",
    "slug": "financial-post",
    "url": "https://financialpost.com/opinion/william-watson-ottawa-needs-to-inventory-its-walking-dead-policies"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Value-for-money evaluations need to replace surveys that ask program beneficiaries if they like getting money and resources from Ottawa",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}