Running For The Cure
George Maratos is excited to organize the annual Terry Fox Run and hopes to see an increase in participants this year.
Canadian Cancer Society
Nighttime Snacking and Breast Cancer Risk
Raise your hand if you’re a late night eater. Does this sound familiar? The sun sets, you sink into your couch, switch on Netflix and enjoy a snack. This is possibly the most relaxing way to end the day. Ok, certainly an evening meditation and gentle moon yoga practice would be more relaxing… but then …
Jarvis Street Saloon hosts a Bowie Party
Everyone from your mom to your niece’s best friend was/is probably a fan of Bowie. When he died a few weeks ago, my Facebook feed was just a stream of David Bowie songs, remembrances and YouTube links from such a varied group of people that it didn’t take long to realize his reach. While Bowie …
Food Bank Superstar
Four years after she officially retired, Robyn Ward-Clark still pulls two shifts a week doing what she’s always done: working with people. Following 31 years of “fascinating, but fairly stressful work” in the airline business, she called it quits in 2005. For the next five years, she worked part-time in two local flower shops while …
Relay for Life celebrates, remembers and fights back
“It’s one day, one night; one community, one fight,” says Donna Hogan, co-chair of the Relay for Life steering committee. “It’s the largest cancer fundraiser event in the world,” adds Scott Kent, regional manager of the Canadian Cancer Society. There are 52 relays in the Yukon and B.C. and over 300 across Canada. Hogan has …
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