{"id":91586,"date":"2017-09-17T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/funeral-for-liberal-mp-arnold-chan-to-be-held-saturday-in-toronto.html"},"modified":"2017-09-17T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:23:20","slug":"funeral-for-liberal-mp-arnold-chan-to-be-held-saturday-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/funeral-for-liberal-mp-arnold-chan-to-be-held-saturday-in-toronto.html","title":{"rendered":"Funeral for Liberal MP Arnold Chan to be held Saturday in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral for Arnold Chan, the Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt, will be Saturday morning in Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His family is inviting the public to attend the service at Bloor\u00a0Street United Church in the Annex at 11 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A visitation in the chapel at York Cemetery in North York on Thursday and Friday evening is also open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Chan, 50, died Thursday after battling cancer over the last two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Liberal MP Arnold Chan dies after battle with cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was first elected federally in a byelection in June 2014. He announced in January 2015, shortly after he won the Toronto-area seat, that he would be undergoing treatment for nasopharyngeal\u00a0cancer.\u00a0The disease affects the part of the throat that lies behind the nose.<\/p>\n<p>After enduring six months of radiation and chemotherapy, Chan felt healthy enough to run for re-election in fall 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Battling cancer, MP Arnold Chan makes emotional address to MPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Scarborough Liberal MP Arnold Chan says his cancer has returned<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But a routine check-up in March 2016 revealed that the deputy government House leader&#8217;s cancer had returned. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Chan is survived by his wife, Jean Yip, and three sons, Nathaniel, Ethan and Theodore.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/arnold-chan-funeral-1.4294008?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral for Arnold Chan, the Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt, will be Saturday morning in Toronto.\u00a0 His family is inviting the public to attend the service at Bloor\u00a0Street United Church in the Annex at 11 a.m.\u00a0 A visitation in the chapel at York Cemetery in North York on Thursday and Friday evening is also open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}