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Local Outreach: 2nd Annual Festival of Trees Contest

  • Sunday, November 29, 2026
  • 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.
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Brandy Pieters, President of Abreast In A Boat, is a guest on the Daffodil Diaries podcast with the SFU Canadian Cancer Society!

Brandy joins hosts Rhea Chand and Sophie Manio to share her journey with breast cancer and her experience with Abreast In A Boat, touching on topics such as breaking barriers in women’s sports, personal choice and femininity as a survivor, life after cancer, heartfelt advice, and more.

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Dr. Donald McKenzie, along with Dr. Kerry Courneya recently contributed an article to the Globe and Mail about new research on exercise and colon cancer. The study found that patients assigned to the structured exercise program had significantly better recurrence and survival rates.

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Source: The Globe and Mail, October 28 (subscription required)

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We respectfully acknowledge that our activities take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands and waters of the thetxʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) pq̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), Máthxwi (Matsqui), se’mya’me (Semiahmoo) and the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples.