Prevent Cancer Now

Dear Friends and EcoNews Readers,
Among my various activities, I am involved in launching a new national non-profit society, called Prevent Cancer Now.

We are building a Canada-wide movement that will do whatever it takes to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer.

This has gone on long enough. We need to get the toxins and pollutants out of our lives and out of nature, once and for all. Sweden has set a goal to eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020. We can and must do the same here in Canada. We are also organizing a major national conference for cancer prevention in May 2007. Our website is www.preventcancernow.ca

Will you help us?

On Saturday, May 27th, 2006, I will be doing a 10 kilometre run at Elk Lake to raise funds for Prevent Cancer Now, along with others in our impromptu team, the EcoNews Eagles. Others will be doing a 5 km or 10km walk. If you’d like to join us, please call me at 250-881-1304.

We are running as part of a national effort, the 3rd Annual Run, Walk and Roll for Cancer Prevention, with 300 runners in London, Windsor, and Ottawa. See www.stopcancer.org/rwr06

So here’s my question: will you sponsor me?

All donations of $20 or more will receive a charitable receipt.

Our goal is to raise $150,000, so that we can pay for our staff and get this thing rolling. We have a great Board of Directors (see below), and a great Executive Director, Angela Rickman. All that we need now is your help.

To sponsor me, click here: https://secure.campagne-online.com/registrant/personalPage.aspx?EventID=2916&LangPref=en-CA&RegistrationID=6265

Or write a cheque to the Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition (our charitable event sponsor), and mail it to Guy Dauncey, 395 Conway Road, Victoria V9E 2B9

Many thanks!

I am also co-authoring a new book with Liz Armstrong and Anne Wordsworth called Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic, which is almost finished, and will be published by New Society Publishers next Spring.

best wishes,
Guy Dauncey
Co-Chair, Prevent Cancer Now
www.preventcancernow.ca

Prevent Cancer Now Board of Directors
• Liz Armstrong, cofounder of the Women’s Healthy Environment Network, and the Breast Cancer Prevention Coalition, now the Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition.
• Dave Bennett, former National Director of Health, Safety and Environment at the Canadian Labour Congress, responsible for the CLC Prevent Cancer Campaign.
• Mae Burrows, executive director of the Labour Environmental Alliance Society, Vancouver.
• Guy Dauncey, author, and President of the BC Sustainable Energy Association
• Deena Dlusy-Apel, active member of Breast Cancer Action Montreal since its inception.
• Lissa Donner, principal author of the Prevent Cancer Campaign Manual (Canadian Labour Congress) and co-author of The Cancer Epidemic as a Social Event (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives).
• Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Associate producer of the video Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer; teaches Environmental Health at the University of Toronto.
• Suzanne Katsi’tsiarihshion Brant, Indigenous Health and Environment programs coordinator, First Nations Technical Institute, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario.
• Elizabeth May, Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. Officer to the Order of Canada.
• Rich Whate, Health Promotion Consultant, Environmental Protection Office, Toronto Public Health.
• Miriam Wyman, principal of Practicum Limited, a Toronto-based consulting firm specializing in public consultation and facilitation.

Executive Director
• Angela Rickman, former Deputy Director of the Sierra Club of Canada. Angela led the Health and Environment Campaign, with a focus on toxics and pesticides, and coordinated the Campaign for Pesticideⁱ Reduction, a national, grassroots coalition of pesticide activists working towards pesticide bylaws.