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‘Hope, courage, determination’: politicos mark 40 years since start of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

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The Terry Fox Memorial was completed in 1982 just outside of Thunder Bay, Ont., where Terry Fox stopped his Marathon of Hope. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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BY NEIL MOSS

April 15, 2020

Four decades after Terry Fox dipped his right leg in the ice cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Parliamentarians honoured his legacy. “When I think of hope, courage, determination, I think of Terry Fox,” said Liberal MP Pam Damoff in a Tw...

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