{"id":2733,"date":"2011-01-26T21:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T02:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/blog\/bmo%e2%80%99s-gift-to-the-skate-canada-athlete-fund-tops-1-5-million\/"},"modified":"2011-01-26T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T02:53:51","slug":"bmos-gift-to-the-skate-canada-athlete-fund-tops-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/26\/bmos-gift-to-the-skate-canada-athlete-fund-tops-1-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"BMO\u2019s Gift to the Skate Canada Athlete Fund Tops $1.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMO\u2019s Gift to the Skate Canada Athlete Fund Tops $1.5 Million &#8211; The title of the feed item<\/p>\n<p><strong>VICTORIA, January 26, 2011 \u2013 <\/strong>Diana Reid (right) Vice-President, National Managing Director &amp; Head, Private Wealth Group, BMO Harris Private Banking presented a cheque on behalf of BMO Financial Group for $100,000 to the Skate Canada Athlete Fund at the 2011 BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Victoria this past weekend. Over the last 15 years, BMO has donated a total of $1.5 million to provide young competitive skaters with financial support for training, education and travel. On hand for the presentation were William Thompson, CEO of Skate Canada (left) with Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier, newly crowned Canadian ice dance champions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For media enquiries<\/strong>:<br \/>\nLaurie Grant, BMO Financial Group, 604-665-7596, <a href=\"mailto:%20laurie.grant@bmo.com\">laurie.grant@bmo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thebankerwhosavedhissoul.com\/bmo%E2%80%99s-gift-to-the-skate-canada-athlete-fund-tops-1-5-million\/ &#8211; The link to the feed item <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMO\u2019s Gift to the Skate Canada Athlete Fund Tops $1.5 Million &#8211; The title of the feed item VICTORIA, January 26, 2011 \u2013 Diana Reid (right) Vice-President, National Managing Director &amp; Head, Private Wealth Group, BMO Harris Private Banking presented a cheque on behalf of BMO Financial Group for $100,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}