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April 18, 2016
Localife Ottawa: Who’s your Maple Sugar Daddy?
On April 3, 2016, Localife Ottawa held its 4th annual trek to a local sugar shack.
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Geoff’s guest spot on the Healing and Cancer podcast
Geoff Eaton spoke with Dr. Rob Rutledge for the April 14, 2016 Healing and Cancer podcast.
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April 15, 2016
Important Survivor Conference News re: registration confirmation
Hey everyone! It has come to our attention that due to factors outside of our control, some Survivor Conference applications do not fully complete. If you applied, but have not […]
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April 14, 2016
YACC values trailblazing
At our monthly team meetings, one of our crew members discusses some of our five values: strength, courage, commitment, heart, and trail-blazing. This is Brittany Barry’s reflection from this month’s meeting.
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April 12, 2016
Heather’s blog: What does YACC have in common with Highland dance?
By Heather Bonynge Last weekend, I helped host and organize a two-day Highland dance workshop for 50 dancers of all ages. Our days were filled with dancing, bagpipe music, hula […]
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April 11, 2016
Photo diary: Retreat Yourself BC 2016
YACC’s program director, Karine Chalifour, posts daily recaps on Facebook during Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference. Here is a compilation of what she saw and felt during Retreat Yourself BC at Edenvale from April 7-10, 2016.
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March 28, 2016
Heather’s blog: The part we rarely talk about
“Since being diagnosed with cancer and becoming connected with YACC in 2011, I have lost a lot of people; it comes part in parcel with being linked with this community. Even though most of us know this going in, and accept it in part because the gains outweigh the losses, doesn’t necessarily make it any easier. “
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March 21, 2016
Workshop aims to help survivors and supporters cope with stress, anxiety (Toronto)
In partnership with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Integrative Restoration (iRest) teachers Dr. Tatiana Melnyk and Beta Leung, mental health clinician, are leading a six-week group for cancer patients/survivors and their supporters between May 17-June 21, 2016.
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March 18, 2016
Do you want to be a Localife leader?
Localife has been running successfully for four years now, and we are currently looking to fill a few positions in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa.
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Localife is losing its training wheels
By Lesley Morrissey Young Adult Cancer Canada’s (YACC) Localife program has been running successfully since 2012. Since that time, we have had some amazing volunteers sign on as leaders to […]
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5 year cancerversary
By Jody Mason “Wow, five years. One goal accomplished.” That was how I was going to start this post until Monday, March 14, 2016 when — on my birthday of […]
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March 17, 2016
Instagram takeover with @elisebonder
Our third guest ‘grammer is Elise Bonder (@elisebonder). Elise’s takeover showed what her life is like as she deals with metastatic colon cancer in her early 30s.
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