Who does not want a cure for Cancer? A decade ago, the Canadian Cancer Society would hold an annual fund raiser and canvassers would go door to door asking for donations. Today there is hardly a week goes by where there is not some cancer run, walk, race, or some other activity geared around raising funds for cancer research. When we donate, we are funding research for a cure, or that is what we think we are funding.
CBC ran a disturbing report tonight about where those funds are really going and it is not toward research. In fact, researchers are spending more and more of their day trying to get funding from a shrinking budget, even though the Canadian Cancer Society is taking in unprecedented amounts of money. Only 20% of your donation is going to research and the percentage of money available is continuing to decrease. So where is all this money going, you ask? Why, to raise more money. It has become an industry that is feeding on itself. Go to CBC.com and search out this story and you will be discouraged from donating, like I am. I have suspected this for years, but now it is confirmed. There should be a huge public outcry, and a dramatic decrease in donations so this society wakes up to realise what its mandate really is.
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