{"id":257,"date":"2008-09-16T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-09-16T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:36:41","slug":"marion-dewarhockey-grandmom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Marion Dewar&#8230;hockey grandmom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marion Dewar, the former mayor of Ottawa, who passed away yesterday, was also a Member of Parliament briefly, and her son, Paul, is now running for re-election in Ottawa Centre. She was a legend in Ottawa for her social commitment which began long before she became mayor and continued long afterward.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among her many activities, Ms. Dewar was a regular supporter\u00a0last season\u00a0at the games of the Sandy Hill Ice Wolves, on which her grandson, Jordan, and my son, Alex, were teammates.<\/p>\n<p>As often happens with teammates, for some reason Alex ended up on an extended ride in the back of the Dewar family mini-van, and was seated beside Ms. Dewar. He later told me later how &#8220;interesting&#8221; and &#8220;nice&#8221; Jordan&#8217;s grandmother was. Somehow the octogenarian had connected with the nine-year-old. When I told him a little about her political career at the time, he was very impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Both Alex and I were very saddened by the news of Marion Dewar&#8217;s death. She was a model not just of public commitment but of perfect grace.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be missed down at the rink.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Adams is a former political reporter with the CBC and the Globe and Mail, and is now a member of Carleton\u2019s journalism faculty, and executive director of EKOS Research Associates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams Marion Dewar, the former mayor of Ottawa, who passed away yesterday, was also a Member of Parliament briefly, and her son, Paul, is now running for re-election in Ottawa Centre. She was a legend in Ottawa for her social commitment which began long before she became mayor and continued long afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}