Jack Layton team among top 20 Movember earners
Posted November 25, 2011 5:40 pm.
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A team honouring the late Jack Layton is among the top 20 Canadian money earners for Movember, the fundraiser that encourages men to grow moustaches during November for prostate cancer.
As of Thursday, Movember for Jack, which was started by two men after the NDP leader died in August, has raised $112,034, according to Movember Canada’s website. (Layton, who sported a moustache himself, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died of an undisclosed cancer on Aug. 22.)
The top three Canadian teams are Oil Rig Rumble, which has raised $553,000, CIBC (Banking Challenge), which has raised $521,885, and Big Mustache on Campus-BMOC, which has raised $490,032.
Click here to see the list of other top earners.
So far this year, the Movember movement has raised $70.9 million globally, and of that Canadians have contributed $26.4 million. Canada is the highest fundraising country by $10 million. The United Kingdom is No. 2 at $16.6 million.
Movember Canada spokesman Matt Matheson said Canadians have really gotten behind the movement, which is “very inspiring.”
All funds raised in Canada go to Prostate Cancer Canada.
Click here to make a donation to help fight a disease that will affect one in seven Canadian men.
Send us pictures of your Movember moustache to torontoweb@citynews.ca, and we’ll feature them on our TV news shows next week.
