Date: December 6, 2025
Location: 910 Sturgeon Road
Time: Doors open at 10:00 AM
Get ready to kick off the holiday season with good food, festive treats, and cheerful company!
What to Bring:
* A gluten-free potluck dish with ingredients list l
* A gluten-free item for our Harvest Hampers,
* And of course, your little ones!
This month, we’re excited to welcome Marilyn J. Wells, who will be joining us over Zoom for a cozy baking demo on how to make her gluten-free shortbread. And don’t forget to stop by our featured vendor booth, Almendra Baking, for some amazing holiday goodies!
Kids’ Activity:
Decorating gluten-free Christmas cookies and playing a few fun, festive holiday games!
Online pledge forms and donation options have been updated below! We are happy to announce our 25th Walk-A-Thon will be taking place on June 7th in Assiniboine park!
We hope to see everyone there, and maybe a few new faces. There will be a BBQ after the walk and lots of kid’s activities. Information on Pledge forms and ways you can donate will be provided soon! Get your teams ready for a fun day in the park.
To the members of Manitoba Community who live with Celiac Disease,
We are asking for individuals to help us reach our goal of $4000 for the Manitoba CCA Chapter over the next few weeks. A portion of the money raised will be going to Harvest Manitoba Gluten Free Food Bank Hamper Initiative. These funds also go toward covering our operating costs for our office space and to provide support meetings for those living with Celiac Disease in Manitoba.
We would like individuals to collect pledges from friends, family, and co-workers on the pledge form below for an activity that bring awareness to those living with Celiac Disease. Pledge forms can be brought to the in-person event on June 7, 2025 or can be mailed in with a cheque or can be submitted electronically via email and e-transfer, no later than June 30th , 2025. There is also an online option for team pledges and donations. Canada Helps Can let you do an online campaign for sponsorship for your Walk or Donate directly. Instructions are listed below:
Join us for our April PotLuck Support Meeting on April 5! Location: Maranatha Church 910 Sturgeon Road.
Bring your little ones and check out our kids corner!
To connect via zoom, please contact the Manitoba Chapter! For general meeting information or to register for our mailing list Click the SUBSCRIBE tab above to sign up.
Join us on February 1st for Speaker Christiana Williams Registered Dietician from Dr. Schar USA, followed by Pancake Brunch at Maranatha Evangelical Free Church, 910 Sturgeon Road, in Winnipeg Doors open at 10, Presentation begins at 11. It is a meeting with a presenter and a GLUTEN FREE PANCAKE BRUNCH!
$7 per person, Children under 12 eat free.
Our presenter is Christiana Williams, MS, RD, LDN Nutrition Services Manager Dr. Schar USA, Inc. who will be speaking via zoom and sharing information on their brand’s mission and quality of their products.
We will have a zoom connection available for those unable to attend in person.
We encourage those attending in person to bring non perishable gluten free food items to donate to Harvest Manitoba. We also have kids activities planned.
COCOABEANS will be in attendance at our VENDOR TABLE.
Please register for the zoom, if you cannot attend the meeting in person by replying by DM or by emailing office@manitobaceliac.com VENDOR TABLES and Prizes and a Raffle also may be available.
As the Christmas season ramps up, we are asking that you consider the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Celiac Association as a part of your holiday gift giving. The Manitoba Chapter has decided to approach those living with Celiac Disease in Manitoba to remember that not everyone is able to put gluten free food on their table. This past year has been particularly hard and appears to be becoming more difficult for individuals.
The need for safe gluten free food has increased.
Please consider setting aside a small portion of your budget to support our continued Manitoba Harvest Gluten Free Hamper Initiative. The Manitoba Chapter has had a relationship with Harvest Manitoba for a number of years previous to the pandemic where donated gluten free food was collected at our in-person meetings and dropped off at Harvest.
It came to our attention in February 2021, that Harvest was not able to sort for Gluten Free food as the pandemic had restricted their activities and they had moved to providing hampers to those in need.
The Manitoba Chapter began the Gluten Free Food Hamper Program in partnership with Harvest Manitoba to ensure that those who require gluten free food have access to it through the Harvest Supported Food Banks across Manitoba.
A subcommittee of the Board and volunteers work to solicit donations from gluten free food producers and purchased additional GF food as needed to be placed into the Hampers. To date, we have had many packing events since beginning this initiative where individuals gave of their time to pack hampers and WE THANK ALL OF YOU! We have packed over 2200 hampers since we started with over 1000 in this past year alone. We estimate that each hamper has cost the chapter approximately $12 but we are seeing with our upcoming packing event that the price for procurement has gone up. We hope you can perhaps cover the cost of a hamper or a little more.
Please take into consideration that the Chapter provides tax receipts for donations by cheque over $20. All electronic donations through Canada Helps or PayPal through our webpage automatically have a receipt generated.
Celiac Canada’s Federal Advocacy Working Group has secured a federal E-petition that is now ready for signatures sponsored by Member of Parliament Sonia Sidhu, calling for the federal government to change the tax policy with respect to claiming the incremental cost of gluten-free food.
Celiac Canada is asking for your support to sign an e-petition calling upon the Government of Canada to provide tax relief to Canadians with Celiac disease by amending the Income Tax Act, in the form of an annual $1,000 refundable tax credit, together with a waiver of any requirement to retain receipt.
As you well know, People with celiac disease require a strict, medically required gluten-free diet to control their autoimmune disease. Gluten-free products are up to 300% more expensive than traditional food with gluten. This creates a large economic burden on our community. There is no cure or other prescription treatments for celiac disease to replace this therapy.
Celiac Canada and the organizers have until November 10th at 4:00pm EDT to get as many signatures as possible. Celiac Canada’s goal is to get at least 20,000+ signatures from our community, friends, colleagues and allies.
Please widely share this link below in your networks, social media, newsletters and personally with your family and network to encourage them to sign to support you and your family with celiac disease. We will be creating some social posts that you can also share/forward.
You’re Invited to Our December Meeting! 
Kids’ Activity:
Decorating gluten-free Christmas cookies and playing a few fun, festive holiday games!
