Julia is Our Hero: Celebrating Living Donation Week

Julia is Our Hero: Celebrating Living Donation Week A “living donation” is the selfless act of voluntarily donating a portion of your liver to somebody in need, providing a life-changing opportunity for the recipient to receive a transplant more quickly. It is Living Donation Week! Please join us in celebrating […]

Inspiring Eight-Year-Old Raises Hundreds for Liver Health

Inspiring Eight-Year-Old Raises Hundreds for Liver Health “If I could help even a little bit to bring hope to someone’s life who is suffering with liver disease then I will be one happy eight-year old! I know that the Canadian Liver Foundation can help me do that.” – Nikki Third-grader […]

Meet Julia, One of Canada’s Living Liver Donors

Meet Julia, One of Canada’s Living Liver Donors “Donating a portion of my liver is that best thing that I have done. It’s only a few months of your life that could improve the quality of life of someone in urgent need of a liver transplant” Ahead of National Organ […]

Be a champion for liver health – design your own fundraiser!

Be a champion for liver health – design your own fundraiser! Was your New Year’s resolution to make a positive impact in your community by supporting a charity that you love? Or perhaps you’re looking for a new way to get involved with the Canadian Liver Foundation (CLF) and provide […]

Sylvie’s Story

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Sylvie’s Story In July 2018, Sylvie Breton was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts. Sylvie remembers vividly the day of her diagnosis. As an avid cyclist, she was in the midst of a training cycle, cycling about 100 kilometres a day. “I completed […]

Reason To Celebrate

Celebrating the Nobel Prize in Medicine Today, the Canadian Liver Foundation celebrates the conferral of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Drs. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. This prestigious recognition is very well deserved, and the awareness it […]

Angela’s Volunteer Journey

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Angela’s Volunteer Journey: From Finding Answers to Being Part of the Solution Angela’s life was pretty typical for a mom. Like a lot of women, this hard-working mom from Atikokan, Ontario, spent her time trying to balance work and family. But that routine life and hope of work-life balance quickly […]

Refusing To Let Liver Disease Define Her

Heather was not prepared to stand down and let her liver disease define her, no matter how close it brought her to death.