Pearson: Breast cancer survivors reshaping communities

Pearson: Breast cancer survivors reshaping communities

There is a special, low-key heroism that lives in our neighbourhoods and institutions, the kind that does not make headlines but steadies a city. In Canada, those heroes are women who, while being diagnosed with or recovering from breast cancer, refuse to step out of the life they have built. They keep showing up at board meetings, coaching youth teams, answering emails at dawn, mentoring younger entrepreneurs, and quietly building the cultures …