MS Canada

Tanner Younghans (seen above in maroon) ran the 2023 Vancouver Marathon and raised over $4,000 for MS Canada.

"My connection to MS is I have a family friend who has been in extended care for 10+ years. She has a great personality and is a great person; she was my main motivator. My cousin's partner also has MS which added to the motivation as well.

I have always enjoyed doing fundraisers. Once more donations started to come in, it lighted a fire and motivated me to train and push through my marathon."

Tanner's team, "Team Alberta," raised a total of $6,178.77 for MS Canada and our community is forever grateful.

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Help Create a World Free of MS

Every 12 minutes, someone in Canada is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), making Canada hold one of the highest rates of MS in the world.

MS is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (i.e., brain, spinal cord) and most people are diagnosed with it between the ages of 20 and 49. 

Since roughly one in every 400 Canadians (over 90,000 people) lives with MS today, your donation is needed to provide crucial support and services to those in the MS community while also enabling MS Canada to invest in life-changing research to create a world free of MS.

As of January 2023, MS Canada amalgamated two previously known entities – the MS Society of Canada and the MS Scientific Research Foundation – but still maintained its vision of a world free of MS. For 75 years, the organization has been relentless in its fight, continuously funding research to expand the current MS knowledge base.

With your help, MS Canada will work to alleviate the uncertainty that MS causes, help provide accessible options for disease management, collaborate with partners to eliminate physical and social barriers in communities, advocate for people living with MS, and ask governments to improve policies that impact the everyday lives of those affected by MS.

For more information visit mscanada.ca