John-Peter Bradford co-founded the Ottawa-based non-profit Life-Saving Therapies Network to quicken Canada's sluggish drug approval system.

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When John-Peter Bradford’s wife was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2013, he did everything possible to get treatment that might extend her life. Article content

Doctors had given Anne Bachinski-Bradford just a few weeks to live, but armed with a self-described gift for pushiness and some contacts, the Ottawa entrepreneur helped her get special access to experimental drugs that enabled her to live more than a year. She lived to see her daughter get married. Article content Article content

“It became my full-time job. It was all I did,” says Bradford, himself a cancer survivor.

Before she died, Bachinski-Bradford told her

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