Canucks donate $5 million to BC Children’s Hospital

The Canucks and the team’s charitable arm, Canucks for Kids Fund, will announce a $5-million donation to BC Children’s Hospital and diabetes research, the largest single gift in the fund’s 25-year history.

BC Children’s Hospital said $2 million will go toward diabetes research and $3 million will go to the Campaign for BC Children, a fundraiser launched in April 2008 to raise money to rebuild the hospital into one of the world’s leading pediatric care and research centres.