Then there is Joe Roberts, who is pushing a specially designed shopping cart across the country to raise money and awareness for youth homelessness. Canadians are running, biking and even pushing shopping carts across the country for various compelling causes this summer, but it’s often a struggle to be noticed in the post-Terry Fox era. “Maybe in 10 years time the cancer that Terry Fox had and that Charlie had might be history.” “It’s hard because it’s almost like a competition,” Eileen Zheng, who has herself crossed paths with a number of other people making the trek, said of the effort to raise money in a cross-country ride. Zheng rode her bicycle into New Brunswick this week, raising money for the Canadian Transplant Association and continuing her efforts to encourage 1,000 registrations for organ donations by the end of this year.

Source: National Post August 07, 2016 19:18 UTC