A run across Canada
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2011
On Thursday, November 10, Airspace Action on Smoking and Health will join Occupy Victoria to draw attention to the BC Investment Management Corp.’s $346 million investment in the tobacco industry. (Read all about it at Alberta Moves to Dump Tobacco Shares.) We will start at Victoria City Hall Centennial Square in the 1600 block of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2011
Attention: ALL MEDIA, re: TWO PRESS CONFERENCES The first will be on the sidewalk in front of Vancouver General Hospital (near the Main Entrance, at 855 W. 12th Ave.) at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 12, 2011. The second will be on the front steps of the Parliament Buildings (in Victoria) at 2:00 p.m. on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2010
In recognition of the successful completion of Errol Povah’s 6-month, 6,000 kilometre trans-continental Journey for a Tobacco-Free World (JTFW) — a marathon a day, 6 days a week — Airspace Action on Smoking and Health is proud to announce… THE JTFW HOME-COMING RUN! All the details have not yet been finalized, but we can tell [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 1st, 2010
First, many thanks to EVERYONE who supported me and ‘the cause’; you have no idea how much I appreciate it! Anyone who has been an anti-tobacco activist for more than 5 minutes is painfully aware of ‘disappointment’. It’s now been 3 days since I completed the ‘run, walk or crawl’ portion of the Journey for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2010
Remembrance Day was an extremely long day, in many wonderful ways: I met so many anti-tobacco colleagues and supporters…most notably a group of about 40 young people who, along with about 10 adults, gave me a very loud and boisterous reception as I — accompanied by Stan Shatenstein and 8 youth (and their teacher, `M.C.`) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2010
Press coverage in 24 Heures Montréal: Running through the smoke by Étienne Laberge What would you do to convince young people not to smoke? Retired British Colombian anti-tobacco activist Errol Povah asked himself the same question before deciding he’d cross the country running from one ocean to the other to denounce the practices of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2010
The JTFW is now just a little bit east of Ottawa. Took today (Monday, October 25) off instead of my usual Wednesday so that I could meet with Burnaby/New West MP Peter Julian and the NDP Health Critic. The meeting went well, had lunch with Peter, then sat in on Question Period in the House [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2010
IT’S ALL GOOD, EVERYTHING’S FINE. HEADIN’ SOUTH… GOIN’ DOWN 69 !!! The highway, of course! Okay, the first couple of lines of my ‘prose’ aren’t exactly true but… After a couple of absolutely brutal, freezing cold nights in the van, it seems I’ve arrived in the tropics; day time temps in the mid to high [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2010
Contacting me by telephone will be a little more challenging than usual for the next few days: My cell was run over by one or more vehicles on the Trans Canada highway just south of Wawa, Ontario… after I left it on the roof of the van, completely forgot about it and drove off. It’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2010
A real quick “Hi!” from Schreiber, Ontario…a very nice, small town; population 1,000. And it has a library, with Internet access!!! Night lows are very close to freezing, but days are generally nice enough for shorts and a t-shirt. I’ve developed a couple of blisters again…for the first time since B.C./western Alberta. Some pretty big [...]
Journey for a Tobacco-Free World
A run across Canada
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