Hillites say goodbye to Dewar, Ferguson

Parliament Hill's oldest tree, which weathered the Dutch elm disease that has killed countless others in Ottawa, might be removed as part of the Centre Block renovations.
Former NDP MP Paul Dewar, 56, passed away on Feb. 6, a year after his terminal cancer diagnosis.
From the House of Commons curator, to the opposition lobby staffer, to the journalist who broke a national story, to the PMO’s Canada-U.S. relations team, every week, ordinary people are doing some extraordinary work on the 

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