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« If you can take something bad that happened in your life and make it into a positive and share it with others, then that’s a good thing. »

From Crisis to Hope: How Albert Found Support When He Needed It Most

Living with cancer

« You don’t need to believe in reiki, just feel it. It’s like stepping into a lake. The currents are very real, even if you can’t put a name to the sensations they create. »

Reiki can’t be explained, it must be experienced: Dominic and Diane

Living with cancer, Living with cancer

She Arrived Alone but She Didn’t Face Cancer Alone: Zenabu’s Story

Living with cancer

Katherine Browns’s gentle healing practice brings peace to Hope & Cope

He’s Been the Patient, the Family, and Now the Volunteer: Ron’s Story

Stephanie Oboler: My Journey with Hope & Cope’s Mourning Café

Bereaved

« People think palliative care is one big miserable place, full of suffering and anguish and fear. But that’s not what it is at all. It’s everything mixed together. It’s the realest place I know. »

The Realest Place I Know—Daria’s Story

« I am grateful for every day, grateful for the miracle of receiving someone else’s blood, the wisdom of the doctors, the caring of family and the amazing research that led to the immunotherapy that saved my life. »

Liliane Aberman

Living with cancer, Survivors

Tuyet Nga Tô, Acupuncturist for 41 Years

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She Arrived Alone but She Didn’t Face Cancer Alone: Zenabu’s Story

Zenabu Abubakari arrived in Canada from Ghana as a refugee in 2024. She came alone, forced to leave her three-year-old...

Katherine Browns’s gentle healing practice brings peace to Hope & Cope

Katherine has recently joined the Hope & Cope community as a volunteer offering her expertise as a Reiki practitioner. Reiki...

He’s Been the Patient, the Family, and Now the Volunteer: Ron’s Story

Ron Yas rolls down the JGH corridor on Tuesdays with a simple policy: everyone gets ice cream. If a patient...

Behind the Jacket: My First Shift as a Hope & Cope Hospital Volunteer

Recently, I had the privilege of beginning my first shift as a Hope & Cope volunteer on a unit at...

Reiki can’t be explained, it must be experienced: Dominic and Diane

When Diane Morissette discovered reiki in 2011, she knew that one day she would want to share it with people...

Fear Doesn’t Have to Be Bigger Than Your Life: Patricia’s Story

Patricia Rodi has been a dedicated volunteer at Hope & Cope since 2006. As a peer mentor, she has found...

From Avoiding Back Surgery to Teaching Qi Gong at Hope & Cope

As a Hope & Cope volunteer, Barry Thompson brings with him a deep passion for sharing the healing art of...

The Blank Page as Medicine: Kate Lavut on Writing Through Cancer

About ten years ago, in 2015, Kate was diagnosed with breast cancer. A social worker she was seeing at the...

At 79, Charlotte Sabbah is still going strong

Charlotte Sabbah is 79 years old, brimming with energy and driven by an unwavering conviction: serving others isn’t a choice...

Small Hands, Big Impact: A 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur’s Mission to Make a Difference

At 13 years old, Ariella Wilner runs a trademarked business (Wilner Wrist) with custom packaging and pop-up shops throughout Montreal....

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