by Susan Haldane | Feb 1, 2024 | How We Help
Compassion can change lives. With registration open now for Steps for Life 2024, it’s compassion for Canadian families that is driving walkers, fundraisers, sponsors and donors to get involved. For all the reasons so many people participate in Steps for Life (fun,...
by Susan Haldane | Nov 30, 2023 | How We Help, Your Gifts at Work
“Look for the helpers.” Have you ever heard that advice? When conflict after crisis after natural disaster threaten to blot out all the light in the world, look for the helpers. There will always be those who step up to fill sandbags, make sandwiches, take in...
by Susan Haldane | Oct 19, 2023 | How We Help
We hear it all the time: families who wish they’d heard of Threads of Life sooner; companies that tell us ‘we’d never heard of you guys’ but who are happy to support our work; friends and strangers who ask “what’s that?” when we mention Threads of Life. One of the...
by Susan Haldane | Sep 21, 2023 | Steps for Life
Has a stranger ever seen you struggling with a heavy pack or grocery bag and offered to help? Being able to share that weight probably made both of you feel better. That’s the philosophy behind Threads of Life’s annual Steps for Life events: when we all walk together...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 27, 2023 | Day of Mourning, Our Family Stories
When lives change due to a workplace tragedy – whether a fatality, a life-altering injury or an occupational disease – we grieve so many losses, from little things like the Mother’s Day card we’ll never receive to big ones like the shared future that will never be...