A run across Canada
Posted in Media on Jan 19th, 2013
The video, below, is definitely among my favourite media clips from the marathon a day, 6 days a week for 6 months, 6,000 kilometre Journey for a Tobacco-Free World. Again, a huge “THANK YOU!” to CBC Television reporter Bob Nixon. Just in case that link is ever broken/removed/lost/stolen or otherwise destroyed/sabotaged (by those bastards at Imperial Tobacco), it […]
Posted in Media on Nov 19th, 2010
Article by David Taube in the Glens Falls Post Star: From Vancouver, anti-tobacco activist walks through Glens Falls area
Posted in Media on Oct 27th, 2010
Story by Postmedia News, published in the Vancouver Province: B.C. man’s lonely cross-country trek against tobacco nears end
Posted in Media on Oct 6th, 2010
Story from Around & About, Oct. 5 issue: Journey for a Tobacco-Free World – Errol Povah, President of Airspace Action on Smoking and Health continues his journey walking across Canada. At the estimated rate of 42 km a day, six days a week, the cross country, shore-to-shore trek is expected to take six months. Errol […]
Posted in Media on Aug 27th, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Media on Aug 6th, 2010
Story by Allison Werbowetsky in Prairie Post: B.C. man makes stop in Swift during anti-smoking walk across Canada
Posted in Media on Jul 28th, 2010
Click here to view a news report by CTV Regina.
Posted in Media on Jun 20th, 2010
This one is by Jay Carr, a.k.a. killthemwithcolor. The footage is from the start of the Journey in Victoria, but there are interviews covering several British Columbia tobacco issues. P.S. Errol finished today three km. short of Rogers Pass.
Posted in Media on Jun 11th, 2010
CBC British Columbia aired a report on the JTFW by Bob Nixon on June 8. You can view it by going to Bob Nixon’s blog entry, Marathon Man, then clicking on “Anti-Tobacco Campaign” at the end of the article.
Posted in Media on Jun 7th, 2010
Click here to view a news story by Dan Kahan of Shaw Community Television about the first day of the Journey for a Tobacco Free World. Thanks to Joan O’Connor for making this available.
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Journey for a Tobacco-Free World
A run across Canada
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