Eliminating barriers to health care in Cape Breton-Unama'ki💜
12/12/2025
💜🏒$9,000 raised - THANK YOU! 🏒💜
Another incredible night at the Nest, celebrating Hockey Fights Cancer with the Cape Breton Eagles and our community.
We had the privilege of honouring and showing our love to special guest Cristyn MacDonald, who is currently in partial remission after a challenging year of surgery, chemotherapy, and fighting.
🦅We cheered on our Cape Breton Eagles as they faced off against the Moncton Wildcats.
👏And, to top this special night, together, we raised $9,000 for the Tom McNeil Cancer Patient Care Fund, which supports 100 patients each month.
A big THANK YOU goes to DMAC Concrete, Island Cabinet Shop and Donovan’s Plumbing for their generous support, which ensures the funds raised tonight will directly support patients like Cristyn.
Thank you to everyone who showed up and supported our Foundation and all of those battling cancer, right here at home. And thank you to our friends, the Cape Breton Eagles, for hosting us! 💜
12/11/2025
We can’t wait to see you at Hockey Fights Cancer TONIGHT at the Nest! 💜🦅
Don't forget tonight's Hockey Fights Cancer game is a specialty jersey night!
All jerseys will be raffled off in support of the Tom McNeil Cancer Patient Care Fund 💜💚
Tickets can be purchased for $5 each in the main concourse.
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12/09/2025
Our team is still reminiscing on the incredible night that was the 21st annual Festival of the Greens, presented by Cape Breton Beverages, Nova Scotia Spirit Co., Blue Lobster and Annapolis Cider Company.
ICYMI: Festival of the Greens took place on Nov 29, and raised more than $220,478 for health care in Cape Breton! 💚🎄
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors, guests and partners for making this possible. We are stronger together, and together, we are eliminating barriers to care, right here, at home!
We are so pleased to share the beautiful photos from the night, taken by Anita Clemens Photography. 📸
Thursday night at Hockey Fights Cancer, we will be honouring Cristyn MacDonald. 💜
Cristyn, from Howie Center, is a friend, teacher, and inspiration to many in our community. She has travelled the world, recently finished her Master of Education, and devotes herself to her work as a teacher, CrossFit coach, and manager at Boston Pizza.
Last year, Cristyn was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. After her diagnosis, she began a long and courageous journey of care and treatment, including major surgery and a tough 8-month battle with chemotherapy. Today, she is in partial remission and receives tests and scans every 3 months.
During the Cape Breton Eagles Hockey Fights Cancer game this Thursday, December 11, Cristyn will be joined by her family and friends to drop the ceremonial puck.
At the game, raffle tickets will also be sold for the chance to WIN this year’s special edition, game-worn, Cape Breton Eagles Hockey Fights Cancer jerseys.
This special event will take place in support of the Tom McNeil Cancer Patient Care Fund, which supports up to 100 cancer patients each month with essential needs like travel to medical appointments, medications, counselling, and more.
🦅 Please join us to support health care right here at home, celebrate our guest of honour, Cristyn, and cheer on the Cape Breton Eagles.
We can't wait to see you all at the Nest! 💜
12/05/2025
💜🏒 Hockey Fights Cancer is BACK! 🏒💜
The Cape Breton Eagles Hockey Fights Cancer Night, in support of the Tom McNeil Cancer Patient Care Fund, is happening on Thursday, December 11. Join us at the Nest, as the Eagles face off against the Moncton Wildcats! 🏒
🎟️ Raffle tickets will be sold for the chance to WIN this year’s special edition, game-worn, Cape Breton Eagles Hockey Fights Cancer jerseys.
To make this evening even more special, our generous partners at the Cape Breton Eagles are offering a limited quantity of FREE tickets to those in our community who are facing, or have faced, their own cancer journeys. 💜
💭Comment your first and last name below with the number of tickets you’d like.
On Monday, we will reply “confirmed” to your comment to let you know that your tickets have been confirmed and will be waiting in your name at this Thursday’s Hockey Fights Cancer game (George St. entrance). If we do not reply to your comment, you have not secured tickets.
⚠️PLEASE NOTE: Limited quantities are available on a 'first-come-first-serve’ basis or until Monday, Dec 8, at 11:59 a.m.
12/04/2025
This holiday season, we proudly launched the 8th annual Because You Care Gift Catalogue in loving memory of Nadine Keller-Wadden. 💜
Our presenting partner, Colbourne Auto (Colbourne Ford & Colbourne Chrysler), will be MATCHING the first $20,000 made to the Catalogue, doubling your impact.
Impact patients on every floor of the CBRH by shopping the Because You Care Catalogue at becauseyoucare.ca. ✨ 💜
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Thank you to RECC Media for this video 📹
12/01/2025
💚🎄21st Annual Festival of the Greens raises $220,478🎄💚
We had an incredible night celebrating the 21st annual Festival of the Greens, presented by Cape Breton Beverages, Nova Scotia Spirit Co., Blue Lobster and Annapolis Cider Company.
This sold-out event was truly something special, with a dazzling atmosphere, so much warmth and generosity from our wonderful guests, and fantastic entertainment from Les productions Fusion Productions, The Back Pack, and The Mellotones. Together, we raised an amazing $220,478 for health care, right here at home.
These funds allow our Foundation to purchase vital equipment for the Cape Breton Regional Hospital and its health care heroes; fund research and innovation; and to directly support patients when they need it most.
Special shout to our major sponsors, Cape Breton Beverages, Membertou Community, City Print +, Canadian Tire, Keltic Kubota, Coastal Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and all of the other amazing groups who stepped up to support us this year. 🤍
THANK YOU for kicking off the holiday season with us and for coming together to eliminate barriers to care, here in Cape Breton. 💚
📸 Pictured here: (L-R) Caitlyn MacDonald, Manager of Philanthropy, CBRHF; Brian Purchase, Board Chair, CBRHF; Shannon Lynch Colbourne, President & CEO, Cape Breton Beverages, Trans-Atlantic Preforms, Nova Scotia Spirit Co., & Annapolis Cider Company; Paula MacNeil, CEO,
11/27/2025
Even MORE items have been added to our silent auction! Visit festivalofthegreens.ca to view all prizes and bid now. ✨💚
🎄💚 Silent Auction NOW OPEN 💚🎄
Each year for our Festival of the Greens gala, we partner with incredible businesses across our community to host what’s become a highly anticipated silent auction, all in support of health care in Cape Breton.
For the first time ever, we’re opening this auction to our community at large!
The auction closes on Saturday, November 29, at 9:00pm. All winning bidders will be notified via text and email.
Good luck, and thank you for helping to eliminate barriers to health care, right here, at home! 💚
11/26/2025
We are deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan MacDonald’s passing.
Dan was a well-known Cape Bretoner – we’d go as far as saying he was a legend. He was best known for his time as a radio host, his volunteerism and leadership in the local music scene, his vast knowledge of Cape Breton history, and so much more.
What some may not know is that Dan was one of the first-ever hired fundraisers for our Foundation. In the early 80’s, he worked alongside the Ladie’s Auxiliary to host raffles and bingo nights all over Cape Breton Island. These efforts helped our Foundation become the registered charity we are today, and to make the Cape Breton Regional Hospital a reality.
In 2023, Dan had a significant stay in the Intensive Care Unit at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital. Upon his miraculous recovery, our Foundation was able to purchase a vital piece of equipment that Dan needed to be safely discharged home. A truly full-circle moment.
To show his gratitude, Dan graciously shared his health care story in support of Radio Day 2023, helping to launch our Vital Patient-Care Fund. And, more recently, Dan shared his wealth of knowledge with us as we gathered history to celebrate our 40th anniversary – in September, he was featured in a CBC interview that we will cherish.
We are sending tremendous love to Dan’s wife, Vonnie, his family and friends, and to anyone who had the pleasure of knowing him.
Dan, our dear friend, may you rest in peace.
11/24/2025
🎄💚 Silent Auction NOW OPEN 💚🎄
Each year for our Festival of the Greens gala, we partner with incredible businesses across our community to host what’s become a highly anticipated silent auction, all in support of health care in Cape Breton.
For the first time ever, we’re opening this auction to our community at large!
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When you give to a charity, you want to know it will affect the people you care about. The Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation is proud to assure you that 100% of money raised stays in Cape Breton to treat our community.
In 1982, a group of community leaders, led by Cape Bretoner Jack Yazer, developed a vision – that vision was the creation of a health care complex designed to deliver leading edge medical services in Cape Breton – allowing more Cape Bretoners to receive care closer to home.
When construction began in 1990, the Foundation began fundraising. In 1991, they launched a $6M fundraising drive. $3M of that total was committed to hospital construction. $3M was committed to constructing and equipping a Cancer Centre that would offer treatment to those who were receiving care in Halifax.
Today, it’s the second largest acute care facility in Nova Scotia. Since 1991, the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation has raised more than $38 million for healthcare in Cape Breton.
The Cape Breton Regional Hospital is the only hospital in Nova Scotia to offer all of the following services under one roof: Operating Rooms, Cardiac Services, Cape Breton Cancer Centre, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics Unit, Renal Dialysis Unit, Intensive Care Unit/Coronary Care Unit, Palliative Care Unit, & Mental Health and Addiction Services
As the major referral Centre for Cape Breton, the Regional Hospital treats more than 100,000 patients each year, providing acute and trauma care, emergency services, clinical services, and surgery. Because of our donors, the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation has been able to fund many important medical projects.
The Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation also holds multiple funds that are 100% donor funded, including: the Pediatrics TLC Fund, the Mom & Baby TLC Fund and the Cancer Patient Care Fund, Caleb’s Courage, etc.. These funds help patients and their families in times of need. Illness can be a financial burden for many of our patients at the Regional Hospital, and these funds help to alleviate some of the financial stress.
The Cape Breton Regional Hospital employs more than 1,800 health care providers who work with 270 hospital and community-based physicians.
The Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation is proud to say that every single dollar raised here in Cape Breton stays in Cape Breton. The Regional Hospital was built after much community fundraising. Today, after more than 30 years of giving, this spirit of charity continues and donors fund priority healthcare needs for Cape Bretoners.
