Concussion effects: Ontario minister to donate brain [Video]

Ontario’s Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research. 

The 10-year CFL veteran and four-time Grey Cup champion made the announcement at a press conference at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, on the very field where he used to compete as a star running back with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees.

“If I’m going to continue to walk the walk, to try and make things better, then the next thing for me is to try and really make things better,” he said while standing at a podium near the 50-yard line.

Lumsden is one of several former football players donating their brains through the Concussion Legacy Foundation. The organization has been working in Canada, the United States and around the world to promote safer sports and athletics through education and innovation. They’re also working to bring an end to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE – a disorder found …