For the week of Sept. 10, 2023:
Many things divide Canadians, but few things unite us as much as the love for Terry Fox.
Terry Fox (left) and Bill Vigars in 1980. (Sutherland House)
On Sept. 17, millions coast-to-coast-to-coast will walk, run or roll in memory of the Canadian hero and his dream to end cancer.
Bill Vigars of White Rock, B.C. was right there with Fox during the summer of 1980, the “summer of hope,” as he calls it.
Vigars was working for the Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario when he was sent to join Terry’s team in New Brunswick.
Vigars has written about the highs and lows of what became the most-important Canadian road trip, “Terry and Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope” from Sutherland House Publishers.
Hear the first part of a two-part interview on this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast with Bob Mackin.
Plus, commentary on the long-awaited foreign interference public inquiry and headlines from the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest.
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