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CTV News
2 days ago
- Health
- CTV News
1.2K turnout for Motorcycle Ride for Dad fundraiser
The 17th annual Manitoba Motorcycle Ride for Dad took place on May 31, 2025. (MRFD) Poor air quality and raging wildfires didn't stop 1,200 motorcycles from revving up for the 17th annual Manitoba Motorcycle Ride for Dad (MRFD) – an annual fundraiser for prostate cancer research. Organizers said this year's event took in more $600,000 bringing the 17-year fundraising total to $5.7 million dollars with all proceeds staying in Manitoba. 'The great weather was a factor in another amazing turnout of Riders and spectators,' said MRFD co-chair and founding member, Moe Sabourin. 'Each year, the support from Manitobans is incredible. Thank you to all registered riders, pledge donors, sponsors, media partners and volunteers. Special thanks to our Regional Presenting Sponsor, the Winnipeg Police Credit Union.' Starting from Earls Polo Park, riders looped from Portage Avenue to Assiniboia Downs, to Selkirk, Gimli and then back again in a police escorted parade. As announced during the 2024 event, Minister for Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) Matt Wiebe was on hand to unveil the official Manitoba Motorcycle Ride for Dad licence plate. Ride for Dad plate A design proof of the new MRFD plate now available from Manitoba Public Insurance. (MRFD) 'Our government is honoured to support Ride for Dad and unveil our province's newest specialty license plate, in support of a cause important to so many Manitoba families,' said Wiebe said in a press release, 'To support the Manitoba Prostate Cancer Support Group, $30 from every plate purchased will be donated to assist Manitobans impacted by this terrible disease. This annual ride has raised millions of dollars to help families across the province, and we are proud to stand with Ride For Dad in support of their continued fundraising efforts.'
Forbes
3 days ago
- General
- Forbes
Trump: ‘Don't Feel So Sorry' For Biden Because Of Stage 4 Cancer
President Donald Trump on Friday said not to 'feel so sorry' for former President Joe Biden, who announced a cancer diagnosis earlier this month, and criticized Biden as 'vicious'—just over a week after Trump and other Republicans suggested Biden may have hidden his illness from the public. Biden, who was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, said his "prognosis is good." Trump, who spoke in the Oval Office on Friday, called Biden a 'somewhat vicious person,' adding, 'If you feel sorry for him, don't feel sorry for him, because he's vicious.' Trump did not clarify why he referred to Biden as vicious, though he did cite 'what [Biden] did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt' while arguing Biden had 'hurt a lot of people.' Biden, 82, revealed he had stage 4 prostate cancer earlier this month and told reporters Friday his prognosis is 'good,' and 'the expectation is we're going to be able to beat this.' '[Biden's] been a sort of moderate person over his lifetime,' Trump said. 'Not a smart person, but a somewhat vicious person, I will say. If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious. What he did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt—he hurt a lot of people, Biden, so I really don't feel sorry for him.' This is a developing story.
CBC
6 days ago
- General
- CBC
The ‘cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline
Last June, during the first presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. election campaign, Joe Biden stumbled and struggled to find the right words. His performance was described as disastrous and incoherent. At that point, many Americans had already come to the conclusion that Biden was too old for the job. But for those who hadn't yet, the debate was the moment that fact became impossible to deny. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again is a new book that investigates Biden's cognitive and physical decline in recent years, and the attempt by a small group of loyalists and family members to keep it from public view. Journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson did over two hundred interviews with lawmakers, White House officials, and campaign insiders for it. Despite the reporting, Joe Biden continues to reject concerns about his age. His recent diagnosis of an aggressive prostate cancer has brought his health back into the spotlight. Today on Front Burner, Axios' National Political Correspondent Alex Thompson on his new book, and the political consequences of Joe Biden's decline. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit:
CBC
6 days ago
- General
- CBC
The 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline
Last June, during the first presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. election campaign, Joe Biden stumbled and struggled to find the right words. His performance was described as disastrous and incoherent. At that point, many Americans had already come to the conclusion that Biden was too old for the job. But for those who hadn't yet, the debate was the moment that fact became impossible to deny. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again is a new book that investigates Biden's cognitive and physical decline in recent years, and the attempt by a small group of loyalists and family members to keep it from public view. Journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson did over two hundred interviews with lawmakers, White House officials, and campaign insiders for it. Despite the reporting, Joe Biden continues to reject concerns about his age. His recent diagnosis of an aggressive prostate cancer has brought his health back into the spotlight.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Trump wants answers on Biden's cancer diagnosis
By Published: | Updated: President Donald Trump hinted that he wanted to see President Joe Biden 's medical doctor be investigated after the former president's shock cancer diagnosis. In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump was asked to react to Biden's diagnosis and was asked if he planned to call his predecessor. Trump responded by calling the news 'very sad' but then segued and suggested that there might have been a cover-up, as others on the political right have floated. 'I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that's a long time,' Trump said. After boasting about acing his own physical - and noting that he had taken a cognitive test - he suggested something was awry with Biden's White House doctor. 'I think that if you look, it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There was nothing wrong with him,' Trump said. 'Maybe it was the same doctor, and somebody is not telling the facts.' He said that while he felt 'badly' about it, 'I think people should try and find out what happened,' the president added. On Sunday, Biden's post-presidential office sent out a statement saying that the former president had been diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, which had metastasized to his bones. Prostate cancers are graded on aggressiveness by using what's called the Gleason score. In the 82-year-old ex-commander-in-chief's case, his Gleason score is a 9 - making it one of the most aggressive. 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' Biden's office said. 'The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.' The former president received an outpouring of support, including from Trump and the first lady. 'Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis,' Trump posted to Truth Social. 'We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.' However Donald Trump Jr. and other members of the online MAGAverse started stirring the pot over whether a cover-up was afoot. 'What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another cover-up???' Trump Jr. mused. Dr. Biden, the former first lady, is not a medical doctor. She has a Ph.D in education. After Biden bombed his late June debate against Trump, questions about his fitness for office got even louder. Then White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially bungled a response when asked why a Parkinson's disease expert had visited the White House multiple times. Additionally, Biden's White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, never took questions from the press, unlike Trump's original White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a MAGA-aligned Republican representing Texas in Congress. Trump's second White House doctor, Dr. Sean Conley, addressed the press when Trump contracted COVID-19 just weeks before the 2020 election. Conley was criticized, however, for painting a much-too-rosy picture of Trump's battle with the disease, which could have turned deadly. Author Chris Whipple, who wrote Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, said on CNN last month that 'this was different from a cover-up.' 'It wasn't a Watergate-style cover-up. It wasn't a grand conspiracy as Karl Rove has described it,' Whipple said. 'The closest advisers to Biden believed, despite all the evidence, that Joe Biden was capable of running for reelection, of winning and of serving another four years,' Whipple said. 'Now it was really delusional.' Want more stories like this from the Daily Mail? Visit our profile page and hit the follow button above for more of the news you need.
