As the 2014 Honourary National Walk Team Captain, Hayley Wickenheiser is sharing some of the lessons she’s learned from her 20 years on the Canadian national women’s hockey team.
When Valerie Giesbrecht of Winnipeg and Helen Martin of Hamilton learned that they would receive the 2014 Ovarian Cancer Canada Peggy Truscott Award of Hope, they felt an instant connection to the accomplished women across the country that were honoured before them. The pair will be presented with the prestigious volunteer award at the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope in their hometowns on September 7.
Sleep Country Canada and Dormez-vous (in Quebec) have joined the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope as national partners.
Ovarian Cancer Canada has been accredited by Imagine Canada’s national Standards Program. With this achievement, we have been recognized for our dedication to operational excellence. Canada has over 80,000 charitable organizations and we join just over 100 who have earned this special recognition.
On September 19, 2014, the Expedition of Hope hits the Inca Trail in Peru. Meet the special people who are carrying the Ovarian Cancer Canada flag and our message of hope to Macchu Picchu, and hear the stories of how ovarian cancer has touched their lives.
Honouring one of his wife’s final wishes to support Ovarian Cancer Canada, Colin Campbell is holding an exhibition of his fine art photography, entitled The Topography of Wonder, from July 2 to August 3 at the ViewPoint Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Cindy’s F@#k Cancer Team is challenging itself to be the #1 fundraising team in Canada for the September 7, 2014 Walk!
It doesn’t matter if she’s talking about her grandchildren, her awareness and fundraising volunteer work for Ovarian Cancer Canada or her most recent children’s book Mrs. B. Has Cancer, Glynis Belec exudes pure passion. This is a woman who can get you excited about life!
Help build One voice for every woman in the fight against ovarian cancer! On May 8, join Ovarian Cancer Canada, our 54 global partner organizations from over 22 countries and thousands of people worldwide for the second annual World Ovarian Cancer Day.
Our goals are set, the website is up, volunteer committees across the country are meeting and the new video is ready to premiere. The 2014 Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope – set for Sunday, September 7 in most locations – officially launches today!
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Join Ovarian Cancer Canada and support the M-456 motion, launched by Charlie Angus, NDP MP Timmins-James Bay, to create a Pan-Canadian strategy on palliative and end-of life care.
By Jessica Gelberg, Communications Associate, Ovarian Cancer Canada
“Hiking to Machu Picchu is one of greatest things I’ve ever done.”
It took Carrie Darmody 30 years to join her parents and brothers in their passion for running – something she finally learned to appreciate at age 42, when she was married with three children and operating a busy, home-based business with her husband.
Ovarian cancer is often overlooked and under-diagnosed. Misinformation is prevalent about Canada’s most fatal women’s cancer. Here is a Top 5 list of myths and misconceptions that we hear from the public during the course of our work at Ovarian Cancer Canada.
Ovarian Cancer Canada has named Dr. Steven Narod, a Toronto researcher and a world leader in the field of hereditary ovarian and breast cancer, as the recipient of the 2014 Karen Campbell National Award for Research Excellence. The award will be presented at the charity’s LOVE HER event on February 27 at the Liberty Grand in Toronto.
Although the top national individual and team fundraisers for the 2013 Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope are lawyers, there is general consensus that you don’t have to be a lawyer to be an outstanding fundraiser.
Fashion shows are an intriguing blend of fashion, style, information and entertainment. A great show will charm and inspire each member of the audience, transport them on a bit of a fantasy and always leave them wanting more.
To celebrate five years cancer-free from early stage ovarian cancer, in 2008 Marilyn Sapsford put fuchsia & teal streaks in her hair and fulfilled a dream: she flung herself out of a plane at 13,500 feet tethered to a professional skydiver.
You can hear the excitement in Leslie Schroeder’s voice as she talks about the milestones and adventures 2013 has in store for her.
It’s mid-January – time to start living up to those New Year’s resolutions.
Find out how media coverage of a previous LOVE HER led 25-year-old Bailey Urquhart to be the featured speaker at Toronto’s 2014 event – and how she brought an audience of more than 400 people to their feet!
April 6 to 12 is National Volunteer Week – our time to celebrate, recognize and thank all Ovarian Cancer Canada volunteers. Their talent, time and devotion to overcoming ovarian cancer are what make us successful.
Ovarian Cancer Canada continually forms partnerships that generate research dollars and make more women aware of their risk factors for ovarian cancer – the country’s most fatal women’s cancer.
Zonta Club members in the Sault Ste. Marie Area embrace five-year plan to raise awareness.
After volunteering at the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope, Celine Lagace was inspired to further the cause – and signed on as a monthly donor to Ovarian Cancer Canada.
Join Ovarian Cancer Canada as we celebrate our growing league of champions—individuals and groups that help move our mission forward.
“My mantra is: I don’t have the money to write the cheque so all I can give is my time. This is the only way I can give back.”
She’s an insurance broker and ex-military with expertise teaching hand-to-hand combat and self defence. He manages a turkey farm that produces 100,000 turkeys annually for the Canadian market.
The second annual Expedition of Hope took place in September 2014. Heartfelt thanks to our eight hikers who raised almost $45,000 in support of Ovarian Cancer Canada.
For the third time in less than a decade, Ovarian Cancer Canada CEO Elisabeth Baugh has been ranked among the 100 most powerful women in the country.
This season, Heather Heaps and her husband Frank are generously matching each contribution to Ovarian Cancer Canada’s gift of awareness campaign.
This holiday season, ban bad gifts while ramping up awareness of ovarian cancer.
When he was growing up in the town of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Marc Michaels says his mother Frances Doudelet was known as “the person who gave everybody a chance” when others had given up on them.
The Canadian premiere of the play I Got Sick Then I Got Better will be the star attraction of a series of events in Halifax to wind up Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in an entertaining and memorable way.
Although Doug Kirkaldy knows his bequest will trigger significant tax advantages for his estate, he followed his heart when he willed a gift to Ovarian Cancer Canada
National Volunteer Week is the time to look and see if there is an individual or group of volunteers inNational Volunteer Week is the time to look and see if there is an individual or group of volunteers in your community who deserve recognition for the work they do in service of the mission of Ovarian Cancer Canada. Consider nominating them for the charity’s 2014 Peggy Truscott Award of Hope.
Dr. J. Patrick Boyer, QC, founder of the Corinne Boyer Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research and Treatment – which evolved into one of the founding partner organizations of Ovarian Cancer Canada – has been named the 2014 recipient of the national charity’s Virginia Greene Award.
Riding the wave of excitement of the Canadian women’s and men’s Olympic hockey gold medal triumphs, organizers of the 1st annual Sue Deacon Cup encourage hockey lovers across the country to sponsor a player or become a virtual player in support of Ovarian Cancer Canada.
For Marjorie McBay, Nancy Finigan, Donna Fraser and Debi MacIntosh, publishing Recipes from Tea and Temptations and presenting a $5,600 cheque from the proceeds to Ovarian Cancer Canada on World Ovarian Cancer Day fulfilled a promise made to a friend they lost to ovarian cancer.