a family-friendly event benefitting local breast cancer research

BRIGHT Run is a non-competitive, family-friendly 1 km/5 km walk or run held at Christie Lake Conservation Area, on the first Saturday after Labour Day.

Join us for our 18th annual BRIGHT Run!

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Thank you to everyone for another successful 2024 BRIGHT Run!

Look for annoucement regarding registration for BRIGHT Run 2025 soon and get started on your fundraising. 

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Our fundraising goal this year was $417,000

So far we’ve raised $588,370 of $417,000! That’s 141% of the total!

It is never too early or too late to make a donation and support breast cancer research.

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Created using the Donation Thermometer plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/donation-thermometer/.Raised $588,370 towards the $417,000 target.Raised $588,370 towards the $417,000 target.

Our fundraising goal this year was $417,000

So far we’ve raised $588,370 of $417,000! That’s 141% of the total!

It is never too early or too late to make a donation and support breast cancer research.

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''BEST FUN MY FAMILY HAS HAD ON A RUN, AND IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!''

– Kevin Randall

FUNDED

PROJECTS

BRIGHT Run has funded 17 breast cancer research projects each ranging in value between $50,000 and $100,000. Here are some of the projects your donations have funded to date.

Post-Mastectomy Body Image Concerns

Post-Mastectomy Body Image Concerns

Women with breast cancer can often experience concerns about how their body looks after surgery to remove one or both breasts. Changes in physical appearance can be very distressing, and can negatively impact a person’s mental health, relationship with others, and...

Decoding the Function of Kaiso

Decoding the Function of Kaiso

Breast cancer remains the most common cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), is a very aggressive type of breast cancer with no specific treatment. TNBC is most common in young Black women for unknown reasons. The primary...

Can we be more efficient in the delivery of adjuvant radiotherapy?

Can we be more efficient in the delivery of adjuvant radiotherapy?

Typically, following a lumpectomy for breast cancer, patients receive radiotherapy (RT) to the breast to reduce the chance of cancer recurring in the breast. This is now often in given in five daily treatments (called fractions) over one week based on the results of a...

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