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Our advocacy campaigns cover many issues vital to cancer patients and their families – from preventing cancer, to accessing high-quality treatment, to improving palliative care, to more support for family caregivers.
We’ve won many battles, but there’s still a way to go. And our campaigns are most successful when you get involved! We need your help to improve the lives of those living with and beyond cancer.
Tobacco reduction initiatives
Family caregiver job protection
Alberta is the only jurisdiction in Canada that does not provide job protection to those who take time off work to care for an ill or dying loved one. Learn how the Canadian Cancer Society is fighting for easy and timely access to supports, programs and services that family caregivers need when providing care for an ill or dying loved one at home.
Compassionate Care Leave: Family caregiver job protection
Cosmetic pesticides ban
We are calling on the provincial government to enact strong legislation to ban the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides. You can help by voicing your concerns about non-essential pesticide use to your city council.
Cosmetic pesticides
Youth indoor tanning ban
Banning children under the age of 18 from using artificial tanning equipment, and prohibiting direct and aggressive artificial tanning marketing to school-age youth will help protect them from the harmful effects of indoor tanning.
Indoor tanning