Motorcycle Ride for Dad raises $600K for prostate cancer research

CBC News

· Posted: May 31, 2025 12:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Hundreds of riders took to the streets of Winnipeg connected Saturday for the yearly Manitoba Motorcycle Ride for Dad, raising much than fractional a million dollars for prostate crab research.

The 17th yearly lawsuit began at Polo Park buying centre earlier heading westbound along Portage Avenue to Assiniboia Downs. Riders continued through the communities of Selkirk and Gimli before crossing the decorativeness line in Winnipeg.

The lawsuit was portion of a six-week run to dispersed consciousness and acquisition astir prostate crab successful the province. A connection precocious Saturday said the effort raised $600,000, bringing the event's 17-year full to $5.7 million.

"It's simply amazing. It conscionable blows maine away. This thrust has ne'er ceased to amaze me," said spokesperson Ed Johner, who survived prostate crab himself but lost his begetter and uncle to the disease.

"The generosity of Manitobans and the hard enactment and the effort — similar our full executive, our volunteers, our pledged donors, the riders, you know, our firm sponsors — it's incredible what we've accomplished."

Johner was diagnosed with prostate and kidney crab aft a regular exam up of cataract country successful 2007, erstwhile helium was 49. He said helium had nary symptoms astatine the time, crediting the proactive cheque to a diligent physician.

He's been cancer-free since surgery to region his prostate and a 3rd of his kidney. The thrust organizer said he hears stories astir aboriginal detection from different men passim the ride, but connected different days, too.

"The ones that instrumentality retired the astir are having cleanable strangers locomotion up to maine and shingle my manus and convey maine for redeeming their life. And I cognize what's happened to different guys connected our executives, too. Those are the ones that instrumentality with you," Johner told The Weekend Morning Show big Nadia Kidwai

'Emotional experience'

"It's a precise affectional acquisition to person this hap … early detection is truthful critical, conscionable truthful critical," helium added.

Prostate crab is the astir communal crab among Canadian men, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. The enactment estimates one successful 8 Canadian men volition make the crab astatine immoderate constituent during their beingness and that one in 30 volition suffer his life.

Dr. Laurence Klotz, a urologic oncologist astatine Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and seat of prostate crab probe astatine the Toronto hospital, said patients with metastatic prostate crab — meaning it's dispersed to different parts of the assemblage — unrecorded "roughly doubly arsenic agelong present arsenic they did 10 oregon 15 years ago, which is truly a important achievement."

"The illness tin beryllium controlled, often for a agelong time," Klotz told Dr. Brian Goldman, big of the CBC podcast The Dose.

The fundraising rides instrumentality spot successful different provinces and territories crossed Canada. Johner said the wealth raised successful Manitoba volition spell toward research astatine the Genomic Centre for Prostate Cancer Research successful Winnipeg.