Issues you can act on

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

  Learn more about how we’re fighting for a tobacco-free Alberta, and how you can help important tobacco-reduction measures pass in the province and your community.

  Smoke-free vehicles carrying children 
  Smoke-free parks and playgrounds 
  Banning flavoured tobacco products 
  Reducing tobacco sales to minors 
  Reducing tobacco affordability to youth 
  Holding the tobacco industry accountable 
  Investing in tobacco reduction

• 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