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Is walking from coast to coast across Canada too short of a walk?
Some 300 staffers at the University of Alberta’s Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute decided it was and launched a Walk-Around-the-World fundraising campaign.
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“We envisioned a virtual walk, of course,” says Stephanie Wold, an event organizer and a nurse practitioner at the Maz cardiovascular ICU.
“The COVID-19 protocols ended plans for our annual Maz-Spin-A-Thon and so we switched gears and decided to attempt to walk the more than 11-million steps it would take to walk across Canada.”