{"id":37748,"date":"2013-04-10T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_mississauga_a_crematorium_battle_beyond_life_and_death\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:02:26","slug":"in_mississauga_a_crematorium_battle_beyond_life_and_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37748","title":{"rendered":"(Globe and Mail) In Mississauga, Ontario, a crematorium battle beyond life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Benisasia, who\u2019s in the after-death business, is looking to build an empire.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Benisasia runs a South Asian-focused funeral home on Derry Road in Malton and wants to open a crematorium beside it. The land, money and demand is there, he says.<\/p>\n<p>For more than three years, he\u2019s waited for his rezoning application to be approved by the City of Mississauga. But a new Mississauga bylaw passed in March says new crematoriums must be a minimum of 300 metres from residential properties, due to concerns over the health effects from their emissions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/in-mississauga-a-crematorium-battle-beyond-life-and-death\/article10817732\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Benisasia, who\u2019s in the after-death business, is looking to build an empire. Mr. Benisasia runs a South Asian-focused funeral home on Derry Road in Malton and wants to open a crematorium beside it. The land, money and demand is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37748\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,207,582,589,438,149,114,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}