Dale Dewar
Dale Dewar is no stranger to challenges, from public speaking in 4-H to teaching in Northern Iraq; she is ready to take her place in the 2019 election in Andrew Scheer’s riding, Regina-Qu’Appelle. As a candidate, she can give a voice to issues of environment, justice and health. Dale admits that running in opposition to a sitting party leader makes this challenging but states that “it would be a lot harder for me to stay home”.
Dr. Dewar is a rural doctor and Associate Professor of Family Medicine with the University of Saskatchewan. She worked as a clinical physician in Wynyard, SK, off and on for thirty years, with Northern Medical Services for seven years and continues to provide medical care to isolated communities above the Arctic Circle. She now calls herself “sort of” retired.
Dr. Dewar and her husband, Bill Curry, jointly won the Saskatchewan Global Citizen Award in 2010 for decades of volunteer work in environmental activism and health. In 2013 she received a lifetime membership award in the Canadian Medical Association for her advocacy for rural physicians and rural populations and for her international educational work.
Dale is more than a survivor of many kinds of losses, broken bones and chronic pain. Bill died suddenly in 2015 at the age of 73 – Dale now lives with three cats, one dog, and seven chickens in a passive solar house on an organic acreage in the Touchwood Hills between Raymore and Wynyard. Their three grown daughters (one with a spouse) are divided between Winnipeg and Calgary. Her interests include but are not limited to health, writing, reading, yoga, cooking, gardening, doing sudukos, watching Rupaul’s drag race and tending to her animals.
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