{"id":30156,"date":"2013-08-26T23:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=30156"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:20:31","slug":"keep-your-eyes-up-mr-mayor-the-moment-a-canadian-journalist-took-off-her-top-while-interviewing-local-government-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=30156","title":{"rendered":"Keep your eyes up, Mr Mayor! The moment a Canadian journalist took off her top while interviewing local government leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cnadian-journalist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30225\" alt=\"cnadian journalist\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cnadian-journalist.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cnadian-journalist.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cnadian-journalist-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cnadian-journalist-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A Canadian radio host and newspaper columnist took off her top during an interview with her local mayor this week and continued asking him questions bare-chested.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Welbourne, who hosts the radio show On The Rocks and writes a column for the Province newspaper, was talking to Walter Gray, mayor of Kelowna in <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>British Columbia, about whether it was legal in the town for women to bare their breasts in public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What if I went walking down the street topless?&#8217; she asked in the recorded interview.<\/p>\n<p>But before Gray could answer her question, Welbourne handed him her microphone and undid the strap on her dress, exposing her breasts.<br \/>\n&#8216;What are you doing,&#8217; he asked, to which she replied, &#8216;it&#8217;s really hot in here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After regaining his composure, Gray explained that while someone may be tempted to call the police there is little authorities could do because it is in fact entirely legal for a woman to be topless anywhere a man can be.<\/p>\n<p>Public toplessness is not illegal anywhere in Canada unless it&#8217;s deemed to be indecent.<\/p>\n<p>Groups of women turned out shirtless in cities including New York on August 25 to celebrate a women&#8217;s right to bare her breasts in public. The annual event was started in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian radio host and newspaper columnist took off her top during an interview with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}