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A Golden Day

O

n October 15, 2014, The Princess

Margaret Cancer Foundation

marked the halfway point in its

five-year

BILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE

by

celebrating ‘A Golden Day’. Funds raised

are helping to revolutionize cancer care

by supporting the creation of a new gold

standard in cancer care: Personalized

Cancer Medicine.

The celebration featured six gold bars which

represented donations totalling $3.28 million

received from nine of Canada’s leading gold

mining companies—Agnico Eagle Mines

Ltd., Barrick Gold Corporation, Goldcorp

Inc., IAMGOLD, Kinross Gold Corporation,

New Gold Inc., Primero Mining Corp., Silver

Wheaton Corp. and Yamana Gold Inc.

“I’ve benefited personally from the

extraordinary work being done by

The Princess Margaret,” said Ian Telfer,

Chairman of Goldcorp Inc., and a patient

at The Princess Margaret. “The Canadian

gold mining industry is proud to support a

world leader in cancer research and care.”

Above

UHN President & CEO Dr. Peter Pisters

(second from L) joins Paul Alofs with

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Below

L to R: Tony S. Giardini, Kinross Gold Corporation;

Haytham Hodaly, Silver Wheaton Corp.;

Geoffrey P. Gold, Kinross Gold Corporation;

Sean Boyd, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.; Chuck Jeannes,

Goldcorp Inc.; Ian Telfer, Goldcorp Inc.; Peter Marrone,

Yamana Gold Inc.; Kelvin Dushnisky, Barrick Gold

Corporation; Randall Oliphant, New Gold Inc.;

David Harquail; Steve Letwin, IAMGOLD;

Wade Nesmith, Primero Mining Corp.;

Graham Farquharson

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