thePodcast: Terry Fox's legacy, 45 years later

theBreaker.news Podcast

Sep 07 2025 | 00:37:55

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Show Notes

For the week of Sept. 7, 2025: Ahead of the 45th annual Terry Fox Run on Sept. 14, highlights of Bob Mackin’s 2023 interview with the late Bill Vigars, the campaign manager during Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope in 1980. In his memoir, “Terry & Me,” Vigars wrote about going on the road with Terry on his quest to run across Canada and raise money to end cancer. Vigars recounts the highs, the lows and the legacy of the most-important and heroic road trip in Canadian history. As usual, Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines and the Virtual Nanaimo Bar. […]

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