20 year old Ben Verboom is making a journey across Canada, cycling about 9,000 kilometres in 90 days to raise awareness about the issues of suicide and depression.

Friday he was making his way from Regina to Moose Jaw.  Verboom, who's father committed suicide when he was 14, explains what made him go on this trip, "I came to realize that these are things that are more prevalent then I thought and suicide is actually preventable.  Early on following my father's death I felt a little bit hopeless with the issue, I didn't think that there was anything I could really do about it, but starting to learn a little bit more about it recently, I realized that I had been empowered with not only the ability but the responsibility to do something about it."

Verboom explains what he wants to accomplish with his journey, "The number one goal here is really education and it's not anything to complicated really it just about getting a dialogue going, getting people talking about the basic of these issues, making the issues of mental illness and making the issue of suicide that's something that's at the forefront and something there were as a society are comfortable talking about because to me I don't think society is comfortable talking about it."

Verboom started the trip on May 20 in Cape Spear, Newfoundland.