Hamilton Activist: Cancer Patients and Sherman Avenue

hamilton activist: She raised the issue in 2015 and it caused the province to boost funding to do more transplants, according to Hamilton Spectator. She died Jan. 20 at the age of 18. Here are some of them LAURA HILLIER The Burlington teen brought to the forefront the tragic issue of cancer patients who can be saved by a stem cell transplant but lose precious time due to the shortage of beds and specialists in Ontario and undergo unnecessary chemotherapy treatments. KATE ANDRUS A longtime Hamilton activist, she led the Trash the Gas Plant campaign, which has been focused on the plans by a company to build a 100-million project to heat and steam trash into gas at the north end of Sherman Avenue. It ran in The Spectator and other papers, and was broadcast on CBC Radio. She also wrote The Welfare Diary, about being a single mother raising three children on social assistance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.