Cancer Fundraising

• Thousands participating in Terry Fun runs across B.C.

  The Vancouver Stanley Park run has raised the most in B.C., raising more than $243,000 so far.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2023
  
• Calgary boy does ‘amazing’ fundraising swim for Canadian Cancer Society

  Ciaran Black has been a competitive swimmer for the past two years, now he's putting his talent to work to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society.

  Features

  Aug 29, 2023
  
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• Terry Fox Run on track to bounce back in Calgary area after COVID-19 disruptions

  The weekend brings the first full-scale Terry Fox Run since 2019. Organizers are trying new approaches to help the event bounce back after the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Features

  Sep 15, 2022
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• Steve Fonyo, cross-Canada cancer runner with troubled legacy, dead at 56

  Fonyo's partner Lisa Herbert told Global News they were in the Vancouver area to have his prosthetic foot repaired, when he died just after midnight Friday morning. 

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2022
• Halifax cancer survivor raises over $250K for research over nearly 2 decades

  Bernice Arsenault has walked annually in CIBC Run For The Cure since being diagnosed 20 years ago.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2021
• Head-shaving event raises $90K to honour 12-yr-old classmate who died of cancer

  A record-breaking head shaving event raised nearly $90,000, with 118 kids and teachers at a local school losing their locks in honour of a Calgary classmate.

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2015