Cherie Skibinsky

Pam McLeod decided she had had enough with Airdrie’s seeming lack of health-care options, so she took matters into her own hands.

Chantal Fosty gets going when she hears her six-year-old daughter laugh. As the mother of a child with cystic fibrosis, Fosty has completely changed her life in order to navigate countless appointments and any challenges that come her way.

Susan Baycroft isn’t one to dwell on the negatives.