Inspirational Stories: Students put heart into collective effort

Abbreviated from article by Judith Hunt, teacher at Camosun College. In August 2021, nine students travelled from Kenya to Victoria, British Columbia to participate in a project in collaboration with World University Services Canada.   The students, who are refugees, read about Terry Fox’s cross Canada run for cancer research, then discussed as a class: “If […]

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Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2023 | Walk, Run or Donate for MSF this fall!

MSF staff vests hanging out at the site of the emergency measles vaccination team in Baboua.

Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) teams as we walk or run 5k, 10k, a half marathon or a full marathon in the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon this fall. This year, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon is a hybrid event, which means you can run or walk the distance of your choice in-person or virtually: […]

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No Place For a Child: A Canadian Doctor’s First-Hand Account of Al-Hol Camp, Syria

Woman dressed in a black dress walking in front of a make shift shop.

Al Hol camp was not the first camp of displaced people I have worked in with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), but it certainly was the most disturbing. The suffering in this camp is not seen in the traditional health indicators we usually measure. Here in Al Hol, the suffering is both deeply […]

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Why Canada should support the WTO waiver to expand access to COVID-19 medical technologies (via ACCESS)

MSF in Agok, South Sudan.

An MSF statement calling on Canada to support efforts to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines and other health technologies through a proposed intellectual property waiver at the WTO […]

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