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Press Releases
OTTAWA - Julie Gregoire, the 27-year-old cancer patient Citizen readers helped send home to New Brunswick, has died, surrounded by her friends and family.
“We would just like to thank ALL of you for bringing Julie home so that she could spend time with family and friends,” her family said in a statement relayed by Global Angel, a charity that helps arrange medical flights.
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February 2007, an 11 year old boy from Toronto was diagnosed with leukemia.
All avenues for treatment have been exhausted and Krishtan is now treated palliatively.
Krishtan's special wish was to travel to Guyana (his homeland) for a visit with his family during the Christmas Season. Global Angel made this wish come true in December 2008!
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Garrett Alberta bound, Community comes through with ride for ailing boy.
Brenda Wedley, Peterborough Examiner Staff Writer
Friday, September 2nd 2008
The community has come together to get Tom Garrett to Alberta for treatment that he hopes will save his life. The response has been over whelming, said Sandi Johnston, mother of the 17 year old who suffered from graft versus host disease after a bone marrow transplant.. click here to read full article (PDF 500kb)
Mercy flight paid for by organization
Fiona Isaacson, Peterborough Examiner Health Writer
Thursday, August 28th 2008
An organization outside of Canada paid for Robert Lewis's flight home from Thailand, says the president of Angels of Flight. Gail Courneyea said she could not divulge the name or location of the organization that brought the 45 year old man back to Canada.
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Dying woman stuck in Calgary
CARL CLUTCHEY
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
For those fortunate to be in good health, being stuck in Calgary with that city‘s view of the Rockies might not be such a bad thing. But if you‘ve been diagnosed with terminal cancer, as Thunder Bay‘s Susan McChristie has, then you would naturally want to come back..
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Woman injured in skydiving accident needs help to get home
Louise Dickson, Times Colonist
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Family and friends of a 22-year-old Victoria woman seriously injured two-and-a-half weeks ago in a skydiving accident in California are reaching out for public support to bring her home. Michelle Schwab, a science student at Camosun College, was hurt on April 4 on..
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