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Diabetic becomes advocate for others

Having Diabetes can sometimes pose challenges in the workplace and one man from Schreiber found out the hard way.

Dave Speer was demoted as a locomotive engineer for CP Rail.

But after years of advocacy through the Canadian Diabetes Association, he was finally able to get his job back.

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Speer says he experienced fatigue and visual problems for months before he was finally diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

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