Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In September, to mark Men’s Cancer Awareness Month, the department launched an awareness campaign to help raise awareness on different cancers affecting men. The campaign launched with a press conference that was held on September 24th with local cancer survivors sharing their stories. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Patrick Scott and Mr. Walt Humphries for sharing their stories as part of that awareness campaign.

The awareness campaign also includes a number of ads you will see in the newspaper to encourage people to get checkups on a regular basis. The earlier the detection the better. Later this month the department will be hosting a call-in show in partnership with CKLB to raise awareness of all cancers. The show will feature cancer survivors as well as the chief public health officer.

When it comes to things like Movember and specific campaigns that different organizations are running, myself and the public health officer tend to use social media to get that information out to as many people as we can. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.