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Brian Fraser Has Ottawa, and the Senators in His Corner

When CFRA Ottawa’s Brian Fraser announced publicly that his cancer had returned, he did so without beating around the bush.

“There’s no point in sugarcoating things,” said the 26 year-old, on a Zoom call from his darkened hospital room.

December 8th was the day that Fraser revealed, via Twitter, that his leukemia had returned, following a remission diagnosis back in April. Without going into too much detail, he described it as being dealt “the worst hand possible.”

“It’s been a roller coaster, as these things are,” he explained, “There’s been a lot of pain, there’s been a lot of frustration, a lot of anxiety, but so far, I think we’re doing about as well as we can.