Movember

Since Canadian Beer News is intended to be a news blog first and foremost, I generally take a fairly impersonal approach to the posts here, and save my personal opinions and thoughts for my other blog, Beer Beats & Bites. In this case, however, I think the importance of the topic justifies getting rid of my editorial anonymity for just a moment to make a personal plea.

This month, I’m participating in Movember, a campaign to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer, a disease that affects millions of men worldwide. Along with my many “Mo Bros”, I’m growing a moustache on my usually clean-shaven face, and trying to drum up donations for the cause.

This issue is especially important to me as my full-time job is in the data warehouse department at a cancer agency, where I deal with a frightening volume of cancer data and statistics on a daily basis. It’s estimated that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, and while a straight-up cure may not be within reach yet, there’s a lot we can do to help us get there, and to assist those men who are diagnosed in the meantime.

Wanna help? Click here to donate. At the very least, you’ll make me feel a little better about this ridiculous thing I have growing on my face.

5 thoughts on “Movember

  1. Don’t be such a wimp, show us a real picture.
    As a dedicated beertaster I support your cause wholeheartedly, I’ll even sacrifice a couple of beers to make a donation if you post a real picture of you with the moustache. I’d grow one myself except that mine is 32 years old now.
    nemsis
    (Bruce Ticknor)
    http://www.beertaster.ca

  2. Small donation made, and a note on BeerTaster.
    Hope it helps, it’s a worthy cause, both my parents are fighting different cancers at the moment, maybe this campaign will help someone someday.
    Just don’t forget the picture!

    nemsis
    Bruce Ticknor

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