Dear UAC members,
OktoberFeast will take place October 16, 2014 – 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., Toronto, Ontario, M6G 4C6
For more information please visit the following link,
https://www.cancer.ca/en/events/on/2014/october/oktoberfeast/?region=on
We hope to see you there!
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Dear U of T students,
United Against Cancer will be hosting a delicious Bake Sale and membership recruitment booth at Sidney Smith Lobby this upcoming Thursday on October 9th, 2014 from 9am – 5pm.
Please drop by to enjoy some of our baked goods and learn more about our club and sign up. Membership is free. For those of you interested in taking out leadership or volunteering roles in the club, we currently have positions open. Visit our UAC Bake Sale for more information.
Hope to see you there!
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A committee at St. Michaels College is currently in the progress of planning the Relay for Life 2014 at St. Michaels College for September 2014 following the Frosh Week and are looking for students who may be interested in contributing or as volunteers throughout the event. Participants at the event can also start forming their teams ahead of time.
Please visit the official relay for life 2014 event site for more information:
http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR?fr_id=15487&pg=entr
Relay for Life 2014 will take place September 19, 2014.
Hope to see you there,
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United Against Cancer proudly presents the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life 2013 at the University of Toronto! 
The Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is more than just a fundraiser. It is an opportunity to get together with family and friends and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back in the hope of finding a cure for this terrible disease. Relay is fun, fulfilling, and your participation gives strength to our mission to eradicate cancer. Walk with us in this inspirational 12-hour overnight event as we come together and fight to make cancer history.
Come join us at the University of Toronto’s own Relay for Life event to be held in September 2013 at Brennan Hall/Quad at St. Michael’s College!
To learn more about the event, please visit and “like” our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/RelayForLifeUniversityOfTorontoStGeorgeCampus
Register for Relay for Life 2013 at the University of Toronto now! : www.relayforlife.ca/uoft
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This Friday February 17th in collaboration with U of T’s Women’s Cancer Awareness, from 3:30-4:30pm join us at the Medical Science Building Rm 3171 to hear our guest speaker, Dr. Tak Mak come speak to our student body. While a professor here at the University of Toronto in Medical Biophysics, Dr. Mak is an award-winning Canadian cancer researcher and is currently also the Director The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research. Come join us to hear about his innovative research and how you can make a difference as we unite against cancer.
See you there!
Yi-Min
UAC Webmaster
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As promised, we’re starting off the new year with a BANG! United Against Cancer will be hosting our annual Relay for Life 2012 in collaboration with the Canadian Cancer Society. The Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life is a celebration of survival, a tribute to the lives of loved ones and a night of fun, friendship and fundraising to beat cancer. Relay For Life involves teams of 10 people who participate in a 12-hour overnight non-competitive relay. Teams consist of students, teachers and staff, family members and friends. The money raised by participants collecting pledges helps the Canadian Cancer Society to continue the fight against cancer by:
This year we will be hosting our event during reading week at the University of Toronto St. George campus on:
Date: Tuesday February 21, 2012
Location: Sandford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
Time: 9am-9pm
We have a great line-up of entertainment and volunteers for our 12-hour event. St. Michael’s College, SMC Improv Team, will be there to provide a line-up of improvised comedy (Seriously, they’re hilarious). Free henna tattoo by Party Impressions. 12-hour will never be in awkward silence with our DJ’s from Magenboys Entertainment. Food sponsored by Pizza Pizza, Pizza Nova, Boston Pizza, and…baked and other cooked goods by our own volunteer team! Highest fundraising team, most spirited team, and much more will be winning prizes during the day. This is certainly an event that you don’t want to miss especially during reading week when you have no classes!
To register, follow these simple steps:
1) Register a team of no more than 10, or join an existing team online at: http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR?fr_id=10706&pg=entry
2) Have friends, family, and whoever you can to pledge you to relay at our event. You can have your fundraised money updated online or you can do this offline by getting a pledge form from us. Send us an e-mail at: uac.club@gmail.com and we’ll reply back almost instantly to give you the pledge form!
3) Arrive at the event and don’t forget your pledge forms and money!
4) Have fun with the fun-filled day that we have in store for you. (You won’t have time to be bored. Honestly!)
On behalf of UAC, we sincerely hope you’ll come out to such a fun and important event!
Cheers,
Yi-Min
UAC Webmaster
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our new United Against Cancer website. Here you can find our latest meeting minutes, our current and past events, photos, and resources that may help you learn more about us and the causes we support. As a University of Toronto student club, whether it be lung, breast, brain, prostate, and many other cancers, we strive to unify our strengths to combat in our fight against cancer.
If you are unfamiliar about our club, I invite you to look around our website to learn more and even visit our “Get Involved” tab to see ways to can contribute. Our upcoming biggest event of the year is our collaboration with the Canadian Cancer Society to host University of Toronto’s very own Relay For Life on Tuesday February 21st 9am -9pm during reading week. More details to follow in the next post.
As it is now 2012, to recap 2011 we collaborated with Women’s Cancer Awareness club in November to host our very own bake sale at Sidney Smith Lobby. Together, we raised over $300! You can definitely except to see more of our baked goods on sale to go along with your hot/cold beverage.You can find more photos under our “Photos” Tab.
That’s it for now! Enjoy the rest of the winter break and look out for us in the new school year!
Cheers,
Yi-Min
UAC Webmaster
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Welcome to United Against Cancer’s Website! We are currently reconstructing our site so please be patient and check back soon when it’s up and running with all of our current details and events.
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