17-02-2018 16:52 via ottawacitizen.com

Former MP Paul Dewar being treated for brain cancer

Former Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar is being treated for brain cancer, he revealed Saturday morning.
The first symptom he felt was numbness in his arm, he wrote in a public Facebook post, which he put down to tiredness from a 36-kilometre skate on the Rideau Canal on Jan. 26. But instead of getting better, the numbness persisted.
“On Monday February 5, I went to the Ottawa Civic Hospital to have my arm examined. X-rays, and then a CT scan, revealed a cyst on the right side of (my) brain,&rd
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