Saturday will mark World MS Day, and this year, celebrations for the day are going to look much different from before. According to Benjamin Davis, senior vice-president of mission for the MS Society of Canada, 11 people in the country are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) every day, and there are more than 7,000 people living with MS in Atlantic Canada.
MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world, with an estimated 77,000 cases.
Taelor Evans was just 16 when she was diagnosed with MS. “I’ll have tingling in my feet and my hands,” she told Global News in 2018. “My vision still hasn’t fully recovered so I will still