Canuck Place

• B.C. gives $4.5M to upgrade Vancouver children’s hospice

  Canuck Place was the first children's hospice in North America. Adrian Dix says the changes will make a "real and tangible difference" for children, families and health workers.

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  Jun 2, 2023
  
• ‘Biggest challenge we’ve ever faced’: How B.C. non-profits survived COVID-19 and at what price

  As B.C.’s biggest artist employer, the Arts Club Theatre Company scheduled only five productions in 2021/2022 so it would have the ability to sustain any further losses.

  Health

  Nov 25, 2021
  
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• B.C. baby fighting rare cancer dies; fundraising money to go to other infants in need

  Tragically, baby Alejo died Thursday -- one day before the family learned he had been accepted into an infant cancer trial at a Boston hospital.

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  Feb 27, 2021
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• ‘Onward we go’: B.C. man takes hospice charity bike ride online amid coronavirus pandemic

  Stephen Mohan had planned to ride the grueling 4,400 Tour Divide, until COVID-19 intervened. Now he wants your help.

  Jun 12, 2020
• Kelowna teen braves jelly fish, nausea to complete grueling English Channel swim

  On July 15 the Kelowna teenager became the youngest British Columbian to swim the English Channel.

  Canada

  Jul 28, 2017
• B.C. teen Emily Epp prepares to swim across English Channel

  It took nearly 11 hours, but a 17-year-old girl from Kelowna, B.C., has completed her gruelling goal of swimming around an island off the coast of Vancouver.

  Jun 19, 2017
• Kelowna girl completes English Channel swim, raises funds for Canuck Place

  Emily Epp took 11 hours, 57 minutes to complete the journey between England and France

  Health

  Nov 3, 2016
• WATCH: Langley family goes all-out for Halloween with pirate display

  This display set up outside one Langley house is frightenly eye-catching --- and it's all in the name of charity.

  Oct 28, 2014