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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
Well it looks like the Government of Manitoba may be giving serious consideration to renaming parts of the Winnipeg Ring Road (Perimeter Highway), in honor of Terry Fox:
"The movement to rename the Perimeter Highway after Terry Fox is gaining traction.
The highway falls under Provincial jurisdiction and Premier Greg Selinger tells CJOB, he likes the idea.
“His petition will be very seriously considered and I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to name something after him including a chunk of the perimeter highway. What the heck, I think that’s a very reasonable thing. Terry Fox was a guy we all remember, right?’
Selinger calls Fox a game-changer and says we’ve all benefited from the money his legacy has raised for cancer research."
source: http://www.cjob.com/2013/09/11/7410/ |
Considering he was born there I would say this was overdue.
One thing that's always kind of bothered me, early in his run a CBC camera man covering him died in Nova Scotia after falling off the top of a CBC van in an accident but there's never even a mention about it. not so sure the family is too happy about Terry Fox Day