Dear friends,
The new year is underway and CVM Canada is gearing up for some exciting events! Our Real Life Real Impact retreat is all set for February 15-17 at the beautiful Bayside Camp and Retreat in Sambro Head, Nova Scotia. Registration closes on February 1st, so please register today! Our Atlantic Veterinary College crew are excited to welcome you, and we have a great schedule of sessions and fun activities planned.
Check the program schedule and register for
Real Life Real Impact Atlantic!
Also in February, our UCVM student group will lead their annual Mexico spay/neuter outreach. In this month’s feature, we hear from Jordan Bertagnolli, third year Calgary student, about the coming trip and how we can be involved with them in prayer and financially.Dr. Debbie Hoffele will join me at the OVMA in Toronto January 30-February 1, so do stop by booth 623 if you’re at the event. And while in the area, we will be visiting Ontario Vet College for a CVM student lunch with a professional speaker panel who the students have invited.
There’s a lot happening over the next few weeks! In all that we do, let us each strive to purposefully live out the compassion which has been extended to us by our Lord.
Serving together,
Lisa Balzer
CVM Canada Executive Director
Canada Feature:
Mexico Outreach in its Fourth Year
By Jordan Bertagnolli,
University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine, Class of 2026
The University of Calgary Christian Veterinary Fellowship chapter will be traveling to Mexico February 16-23, to run a spay neuter clinic. This is the fourth year that a team has travelled to Mexico from UCVM. Our clinic has been held within Cuernavaca, the state capital of Morelos. The team, made up of students from across the DVM program and several local Calgarian veterinarians, will run a weeklong clinic in partnership with local animal population control charities. These are busy weeks. In the past we have been able to pack in 150+ surgeries into 4 days of clinic. While some of these patients are trap and release, many are pets in communities that face challenges accessing routine veterinary care.