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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Crown Services’ Minister Jeff Wharton and Marco and Suzanne Suzio, makes an announcement that the province’s newest specialty licence plate will financially assist in ongoing research into childhood cancer during a press conference outside of the Manitoba Legislative Building Wednesday afternoon. $30 from every $70 plate purchase will be going toward the Madox’s Warriors Foundation. Madox’s Warriors Foundation is a not-for-profit, private charitable foundation created to raise awareness of childhood cancer and raise much-needed funds toward childhood cancer research. Madox’s Warriors was created in honour of Winnipegger Madox Suzio, who passed away in 2014 at the age of nine after a heroic battle with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG). 200624 - Wednesday, June 24, 2020.