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Runner who ran 10 times length of Canada credits 1980 brush with Terry Fox as inspiration
After seeing Terry Fox on the first day of his Marathon of Hope, Alasdair Veitch decided about a year later that he wanted to run the distance across Canada. Since then, he s run 55,000 kilometres, about 10 times the distance across Canada.
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Alasdair Veitch wanted to run across Canada. At 55,000 km, he s now run more than 10 times the distance
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Posted: Jan 30, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 30
Alasdair Veitch at the Terry Fox statue in St. John s, NL. Veitch, who has run more than 55,000 kilometres in his adult life, credits Fox, whom he encountered on the first day of Fox s Marathon of Hope as his inspiration. (Submitted by Alasdair Veitch)
A candidate committed a crime: How long should they be held accountable for a mistake in the past?
The PC candidate for Humber-Bay of Islands is asking voters to forgive him for a violent incident eight years ago. As Terry Roberts writes, the case raises questions about a society s ability to forgive while holding people accountable for behaviour that crosses a line.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already deepened global inequality; now the vaccines are set to make the situation even worse.
The world’s wealthiest countries are moving as fast as they can to inoculate their citizens with vaccines they have bought directly from the producers. But poorer countries, which cannot afford to do that, are having to wait for a World Health Organization body called COVAX to provide them with vaccines.
Why We Wrote This
We will be safe anywhere when we are safe everywhere. That pandemic truism is a reminder that we are all in this together and we will only get out of it together.