By Deron Hamel When Rick McGraw set out to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to buy state-of-the-art laser surgery equipment, he had a goal of raising $300,000. Since completing the climb Aug. 1, he has raised $332,000, and the money is still coming in. Proceeds from McGraw’s…
By Deron Hamel One goal Epilepsy Ontario aims for through its news program, Voices of Epilepsy, is to highlight people who have not allowed living with a seizure disorder to hold them back from pursuing their dreams and ambitions. So far in 2016, we have seen many of these stories. Brock Welton In January, we…
By Deron Hamel For the first time in its 50-year history, Epilepsy Ontario will be directly funding epilepsy research aimed at enhancing quality of life for people living with the condition. Thanks to a private donation made to the agency, Epilepsy Ontario will be collaborating with leading epilepsy researchers in the province to conduct several…
By Deron Hamel Westmount Gardens, a London, Ont. long-term care home, is the winner of the Epilepsy Support Centre’s 2016 Purple Day Challenge, an annual contest where seniors’ care homes raise epilepsy awareness. Now in its second year, the Purple Day Challenge was launched to recognize the increasing prevalence of epilepsy in the senior population…
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