{"id":10798,"date":"2011-08-22T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:25:06","slug":"jack-layton-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/jack-layton-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Layton, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sad to hear of the death of federal NDP leader Jack Layton today. Here&#8217;s the official notification:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We deeply regret to inform you that The Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am today, Monday August 22. He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones. Details of Mr. Layton\u2019s funeral arrangements will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Layton&#8217;s party achieved a breakthrough in the most recent federal election, winning enough seats to qualify as the Official Opposition for the very first time. Jack Layton had a lot to do with that impressive performance, and it&#8217;s not clear if his party will be able to retain their popularity without his leadership.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/08\/22\/jack-layton-dies-of-cancer-report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> has a full obituary.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jack Layton has lost his battle with cancer, dying Monday morning at his home, surrounded by those closest to him.<\/p>\n<p>The charismatic, 61-year-old politician had recently stepped down as federal NDP leader, but had expressed hope that he would return when Parliament resumed next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was deeply saddened to learn this morning of the death of Jack Layton,\u201d Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Harper offered his condolences to Layton\u2019s wife, MP Olivia Chow, and family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I last spoke with Jack following his announcement in July, I wished him well and he told me he\u2019d be seeing me in the House of Commons in the Fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis, sadly, will no longer come to pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of all Canadians, I salute Jack\u2019s contribution to public life, a contribution that will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know one thing: Jack gave his fight against cancer everything he had. Indeed, Jack never backed down from any fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sad to hear of the death of federal NDP leader Jack Layton today. Here&#8217;s the official notification: We deeply regret to inform you that The Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am today, Monday August 22. He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[297,798,293,458],"class_list":["post-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-jacklayton","tag-ndp","tag-obituary","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14130,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/14130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}