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293 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009 nationalpost.com EACH IT'S Paul Quarrington in his Toronto home. THE ANTI RELAY Olympic torchbearers will have company BY STEWART BELL When the Olympic Torch Relay begins in Victoria this month, Marla Renn intends to be there. She won't be carrying the flame, she'll be protesting it. "We're definitely going to be there, just like a whole lot of other groups," said Ms. Renn, a teacher and activist, and a member of the Vancouver-based Olympic Resistance Network.

The Olympic flame starts its journey in Greece on Thursday, then hops the Atlantic to British Columbia's seaside capital, the starting point of its trek across Canada and back again. See TREK on Page A12 LIKE LAST The award-winning author begins today TORONTO MAMMOLITIVILLE Mayoral candidate Mammoliti is a brash force to be reckoned with in his ward. A14-15 'I DID SHE SAID The ex-lover of a woman accused of murder tells a jury she lied when she confessed to the crime on police videotape. A19 THIS SOLD TOWN Toronto's vintage hot spots drawing shoppers from as far away as Japan. Page TOI Fashion Week, T03 Author Paul Quarrington on The Diagnosis, the voyage, and survival by song TYLER ANDERSON NATIONAL POST an occasional series describing his journey with cancer.

BY PAUL QUARRINGTON You Were Diagnosis sky diving, went two Fu Manchu." 've often wondered why, in popular song and fiction, people dealing with The Diagnosis often choose to go mountain climbing. For example, in Tim McGraw's popular song Live Like Dying, the man who has received The lists as his recent activities, "I went I went Rocky Mountain climbing, I point seven seconds on a bull named The Diagnosis we're discussing is, of course, the one wherein the doctor begins to speak, in a very goodnatured manner, the test results have given us some answers and then goes on to say a lot of stuff that doesn't really make any sense tumour is what we call squamous or sessile I'd been doing some bartering with the Almighty and somewhere in there announces that you are going to die. Way way sooner than you thought. "Ah," you think, "time to go mountain climbing." I have received The Diagnosis. Entering the doctor's office in early May, I was prepared for pretty dire news.

After all, a week earlier they had drained seven litres of fluid from around my lungs. In the intervening days, I'd been doing some bartering with the Almighty take throat cancer for but it availed me not, the diagnosis was as dire as they come: lung cancer, stage four. See JOURNEY on Page A6 Ever have a business question at 2 am? RBC Call us. We'll be there. Business Owners: Call 1-800 2-0.

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