Fonyo stripped of Order of Canada

Steve Fonyo, the single-leg amputee who ran 8,000K across Canada and raised $13 million for cancer research, has had his membership to the Order of Canada terminated because of “his multiple criminal convictions, for which there are no outstanding appeals,” the Governor General’s office said in a release.

Montreal-born Fonyo, who lost a leg at the age of 12 to cancer, followed along Terry’s Fox’s Marathon of Hope route in 1984 and 1985 in a cross-Canada trip dubbed the “Journey for Lives.”

Fonyo has battled cocaine and alcohol addiction and faced a string of criminal convictions over the years. Now living in Surrey, B.C., Fonyo was convicted last summer of breaching probation after a previous assault conviction.

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