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Walking for a cause

Published: 12 May 2016

One day, almost 10 years ago, Christine Boutros felt something she will never forget.

She remembers it like it was yesterday: “You know when you sit on your leg for too long and it feels tingling? I thought it would pass but it didn’t,” she explained.

A few months later, Boutros, at the age of 45, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. “It was kind of surreal,” she said.

Christine Boutros grew up and lived most of her life in Saint-Laurent and the West Island. After graduating from McGill University with a degree in Commerce, she worked for various companies before settling in at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). By 2005, when she was diagnosed with MS, Boutros was the Assistant Vice-President, Credit Risk Management for the BDC’s North Shore branches.

Read full article: The Suburban, May 11, 2016

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