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Bell’s Let’s Talk Day raises $3.3 million

MONTREAL – After donating 5 cents for every text and long distance call last Wednesday, Bell Canada (with the help of multiple Olympic medal-winner Clara Hughes) announced it raised over $3.3 million in support of Canadian mental health thanks to 66,079,236 total Bell text messages and long distance calls made that day by Bell and Bell Aliant customers.Bell Let’s Talk Day invited Canadians to join the conversation to lift the stigma around mental illness. Led by national Bell Let’s Talk Day spokesperson Hughes (who has suffered from depression), Canadians talked and texted even more than the day her fellow Olympian...