About Us

Document Actions

Origins
Vision
Mission
Membership
Our Funders
Board Members
Privacy Statement
Editorial Statement
Advertising Policy

Origins

The CCTC, formerly the Canadian Council on Smoking and Health (CCSH), was founded in 1974 by non-governmental organizations concerned with the tobacco epidemic such as the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Lung Association.

Vision

Canadians are empowered to take informed action to improve their health and reduce death and disease caused by tobacco and other health risk factors.

Mission

Gathering and sharing tobacco control information, the CCTC strives to ensure that knowledge truly informs effective action to improve the health of Canadians and of the global community. The CCTC creates and maintains knowledge networks that connect people with people as well as the information they need using evidence-based information processing and knowledge brokering.

Membership

The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control recognizes that action on tobacco issues requires a strong and effective tobacco control movement that enables health advocates at the local, provincial, territorial and national levels to work together to diminish the adverse impact on the health of Canadians caused by tobacco industry products.

Membership in CCTC indicates a commitment to tobacco control in Canada, and a belief in the important role that knowledge mobilization and transfer play in supporting effective action on tobacco issues. Please see our Membership page for more information.

CCTC reserves the right to refuse or revoke the membership of any individual or organization whose activities it believes to be inconsistent with our mission and goals.

Membership is non-refundable.

Our Funders

CCTC programs are the result of sustained efforts and collaboration from people and organizations across Canada. The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control thanks all its supporters in making possible the identification, creation, and dissemination of tobacco control information. In doing so, it is actively contributing to the realization of longstanding goals in tobacco prevention, cessation, protection and denormalization.

The continued support and foresight of federal and provincial governments, and of NGOs such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society, enables the CCTC to support and enhance the ability of individuals, health intermediaries, and communities to take action in tobacco control. They have enabled the sharing of ideas and knowledge that will allow us to move towards a tobacco free society.

The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control is funded (listed in order of per capita funding) by:

Board Members

Chair
Mr. Manuel Arango
Manager, Government Relations
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
222 Queen Street, Suite 1402
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V9

Vice-Chair
Mr. Marino Francispillai
Manager, Stakeholder Relations
Parks Canada Agency
25 Eddy Street, 67th Floor
Gatineau, QC K1A 0M5

Secretary/Treasurer
Mr. Mike Brydges
District Banking Manager
Scotiabank
3750 Richmond Road
Nepean, ON K2H 5B9

Member at Large
Mr. Dave Clements, MPA
Director, Corporate Planning and Accountability
Canadian Institute for Health Information
495 Richomond Road, Suite 600
Ottawa, ON K2A 4H6

Member at Large
Mr. Kevin Coady
Executive Director
Alliance for the Control of Tobacco
29 Rowan Street
St. John's, NF A1B 2X2

Member at Large
Ms. Lynn Ann Duffley
Health and Education Research Group
University of New Brunswick
Marshall d’Avray Hall, Room 202
PO Box 4400
Saint John, NB E2L 3T5

Member at Large
Dr. Jim Morris
Quit Coach
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
980 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6V4

Member at Large
Ms. Donna Pasiechnick
Manager, Tobacco Control, Media & Government Relations
Canadian Cancer Society – Saskatchewan
1910 McIntyre Street
Regina, SK S4P 2R3

Member at Large
Ms. Lisa Petermann
Director, Knowledge Exchange Centre
Mental Health Commission of Canada
10301 Southport Lane, SW, Suite 800
Calgary, AB T2W 1S7

Member at Large
Dr. Ann Royer
Responsable de l'évaluation
Équipe habitudes de vie/maladies chroniques
Direction de santé publique
Agence de la santé et de services sociaux de la Capitale-Nationale
2400, avenue D'Estimauville
Québec (Québec) G1E 7G9

Member at Large
Ms. Debbie Smith
Manager, Health Initiatives
The Lung Association (National Office)
1750 Courtwood Crescent, Suite 300
Ottawa, ON K2C 2B5

Honorary Counsel
Mr. Thomas Barber
c/o Burke Robertson
70 Gloucester Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 0A2

Honorary Human Resources Advisor
Mr. Gary Taylor
3388 Clearwater Crescent
Ottawa, ON K1R 7A7

Privacy Statement

Of the information we learn about you from your visit to "cctc.ca," we store only the following: the domain name from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the web site from which you direct-linked to our site. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

When inquiries are emailed to us, we store the question and the email address information so that we can respond electronically. Unless otherwise required by statute, we do not identify publicly who sends questions or comments to our web site. We will not obtain information that will allow us to personally identify you when you visit our site, unless you chose to provide such information to us.

Editorial Statement

All Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue abstracts and all web page descriptions/editorial commentary are created or reviewed by the Staff of the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control.

Advertising Policy

Ethical programming, based on evidence and best practices is essential to the success of the efforts of the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC) and its partners in the struggle against tobacco addiction. The audiences and partners of the Council rely on the CCTC to support proven measures and programs that are of high value to the entire tobacco control community.

The Canadian Council on Tobacco Control supports, facilitates and encourages the development of mutually beneficial relationships between the CCTC, the business community and the community at large.

This policy governs the acceptance of advertising and sponsorship for cctc.ca. Our website – cctc.ca – is not a commercial enterprise. However, business, community groups and individuals, may be permitted to purchase advertising space in specific areas of the portal, when the inclusion of advertising does not interfere with the core values and mission of the CCTC.

The following are principles for accepting financial support and donations from the private sector as well as foundations. These same principles would apply to any and all advertising on cctc.ca.

The relationship shall be fully congruent with the vision and mission of the Canadian Council on Tobacco Control (CCTC);
The relationship shall support the activities of the CCTC;
The relationship shall be legal and ethical;
The relationship shall abide by the by-laws of the CCTC;
The relationship shall respect the Policy Of The CCTC Concerning Its Relationship With The Tobacco Industry And Related Business;
No relationship shall interfere with the right of the CCTC to enter into another;
The CCTC is accountable to its founders; no new relationship shall impinge on that association;
The appearance of advertising on cctc.ca is neither a guarantee nor an endorsement by the CCTC of the product, service, or company or the claims made for the product in such advertising;
The CCTC, in its sole discretion, retains the right to decline any submitted advertisement or to discontinue posting of any advertisement previously accepted. The CCTC reserves the right to not link to or to remove links to other websites.

last modified Nov 29, 2011 07:27 AM