On February 11, 2020, Thyroid Patients Canada officially became a nonprofit corporation. It’s the first step toward becoming an official registered charity. Three of us patient peer-leaders put together the paperwork — Tania, Mona and Alexa. There’s a team of… Read More ›
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Part 3: Meet our campaign’s main writer: her hopes
See Part 1 where I introduce my background as a thyroid patient See Part 2 where I talk about my research and advocacy What are your hopes for the future of Thyroid Patients Canada? Updated January 2022 See “Thyroid Patients… Read More ›
Part 2: Meet our campaign’s main writer, advocate and researcher
In part 1 of this series, I explained who I am as a thyroid patient. Here I introduce myself as the campaign’s researcher and as a thyroid patient advocate. Updated: January 2022 What kind of research do you do? That’s… Read More ›
Meet our campaign’s main writer, Tania Sona Smith
I’ve decided it’s finally time to put a human face and name behind our campaign so that media can contact us and know who to talk to. Our campaign has experienced significant growth since we started in July 2018. I’ve… Read More ›
Choosing Wisely chooses not to hear thyroid patient’s research presentation
Our thyroid patient campaign’s researcher submitted a proposal to speak at the Choosing Wisely national conference in Montreal in May 2019. A second thyroid patient was willing to fund the researcher’s trip from Western Canada. A third thyroid patient put… Read More ›
Every thyroid patient needs someone…
On Valentine’s Day, we thyroid patients send out a big thank you to our supporters. We need people to lean on, to listen, to support us in hard times.
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Public supporters: Subscribe to email notifications of new posts in the right-hand sidebar. Donate and support: We are a registered Canadian non profit corporation (Feb. 2020) but we are not yet a charity, so we can’t issue Canadian tax receipts…. Read More ›