Our Mission

Our Mission

Eye health access for every Canadian. Not just the ones who live near a specialty pharmacy.

About one in five Canadian adults has dry eye disease and most of us don't even know it is even a disease. We think we're just tired, or its the allergies, and just ignore it, hoping it will just go away. Sadly it's not going away and in the past few years symptoms of Dry Eye Disease have continued to increase.

The problem has never been the science. The problem is access.

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Walk into a Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall and count the eye drops. Dozens of boxes. Nearly all of them contain a preservative called benzalkonium chloride, which accumulates on the corneal surface with regular use and causes the exact irritation you're trying to fix. The products that actually work for ongoing dry eye management, things like Thealoz Duo with its trehalose-based formula or I-Drop Pur with viscoadaptive hyaluronic acid, are almost never on the shelf. Specialty pharmacies in Toronto or Vancouver might carry one or two. If you're in Timmins or Corner Brook or Dawson Creek, good luck.

Amazon has listings. But when you're buying eye drops from a third-party seller with no verifiable storage conditions and expiry dates you can't check until the box arrives, you're gambling with your corneas. That's not a figure of speech.

This gap between what your optometrist recommends and what you can actually find and buy as a Canadian is the reason MyPear exists.

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What We Carry and Why

About 40 products. That's it. The catalogue is small because the filter is aggressive. Every item is reviewed by a practising optometrist, sourced directly from the manufacturer, and carries a valid Natural Product Number or Drug Identification Number from Health Canada. You can verify any of them yourself on the Health Canada Licensed Natural Health Products Database. It's free, it's public, and we'd encourage you to use it regardless of where you shop.

No BAK. No vasoconstrictors that fake white eyes for two hours. The omega-3 on our shelf uses the rTG form because patients who've tried both it and the cheap ethyl ester version from Shoppers can tell you exactly which one their body actually absorbs. We've watched people try to save twelve bucks a month on the cheaper bottle and come back inside of six weeks.

We ship to every valid Canadian postal code. Rural routes, PO Boxes, northern communities. Vancouver to St. John's. If Canada Post delivers there, we deliver there. Most orders land in 3 to 7 business days.

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Usage

A bottle of preservative-free drops lasts roughly a month if you're using them morning and night. Omega-3s run out too. Masks wear down. We hear from people who stretch bottles past the expiry date or just stop buying because the per-month number felt too high, and every time, the symptoms come roaring back. So we price in bulk. Buy more, pay less per unit. Somebody doing two weeks on and three weeks off because of cost is getting a fraction of the benefit, and their optometrist can see it at the next follow-up.

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Why it's Important

Canada passed Bill C-284 in November 2024. First national eye care strategy in the country's history. Judy Sgro pushed it through Parliament specifically because rural and northern communities were falling through the cracks on everything from basic exams to product access. Three quarters of vision loss here is preventable, and yet most of the tools to prevent it aren't available at your local pharmacy.

We can't fix that with a website. But we can make sure that if you're in Prince George or Moncton or Thunder Bay, you have access to Thealoz Duo. You can order it from your kitchen table that night and have it on your porch by Friday. CNIB and Fighting Blindness Canada run the World Sight Day campaign every October. Love Your Eyes. We think that starts with actually being able to get the products your eyes need, not just the ones that happen to be stocked at the nearest Shoppers.

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