EDMONTON A local family is hoping comedy will be part of the cure to cancer. An online show featuring seven comedians from across Canada and beyond is being held to benefit a Vegreville, Alta., mom of three battling cancer. Courtney Yakimetz was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2019 when she was 29 years old. After surgery and chemotherapy, she was briefly declared cancer free until a diagnosis in September 2020 when she was 28 weeks pregnant. This time it was triple negative breast cancer, so it s totally a different cancer than what she had the first time. And it unfortunately usually is harder to treat, recalled her sister Kendall Crowle.