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NEW - Throwback 1980: The Year Terry Fox Started Running and Canada Changed
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Terry Fox dipped his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic Ocean in St. John's on April 12, 1980, and started running. What followed changed Canada in ways that are still being measured.
The hosts put that moment inside a year that looked a lot like this one: global inflation, fuel shortages, Iran in the news, a political climate nobody felt good about. Pierre Trudeau was returning to power. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were squaring off in the United States. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, a young man with cancer decided to run across the country to raise awareness for cancer research.
The parallels to now are hard to miss, and the hosts do not shy away from them.
Topics: Terry Fox Marathon of Hope, 1980 Canada, Throwback Thursday, Canadian history, inflation 1980
Originally aired on 2026-04-30