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Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Brief press notice from Dryden, ON

From CKDR-FM in Dryden: B.C. Man Trying to Kill Tobacco Industry Errol Povah has visions of a tobacco-free world and he’s determined to see that through. Povah is walking and running from Victoria, B.C. to Montreal to raise awareness and money. The Vancouver man stopped in Dryden Wednesday. Povah says its his goal to put […]

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I’ve reached Ontario!

The subject says it all.

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Feeling a little guilty…

August 2, 2010 was an extremely important date…and I completely forgot about it, until just now (15 days later). August 2 was the first anniversary of the death of our very good friend and colleague, Roger Perron. For those of you who didn’t know Roger, he was an amazing guy who died — because of […]

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– or – ’CSIS’ and ‘ROASTS’ take on whole new meanings! For me, CSIS means ‘Constantly Soaked In Sweat’ (although with a sudden change in weather over the last couple of days, I may soon have to change ‘Sweat’ to ‘Snow’)!  And “ROASTS”?  Well, besides very accurately describing what I’ve been doing quite consistently for […]

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Update from Winnipeg

I start from the west side of Winnipeg today.  42 kilometres per day is, relatively speaking, a piece of cake; it’s the incredible heat (high 20s, low 30s), combined with very high humidity (or the “sweat factor”, as they call it on the weather reports) that’s the really brutal part.  In the exact same way […]

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Media coverage in Swift Current, SK

Story by Allison Werbowetsky in Prairie Post: B.C. man makes stop in Swift during anti-smoking walk across Canada

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Update from Manitoba

Well, it’s DAY 66 of the JTFW.  And it’s a Wednesday, which means it’s a “day off”!  So why am I sitting in a library for at least an hour doing this update, to be followed by contacting a bunch of media down the road, then laundry, shopping, wash and vac the van, shower at […]

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