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Charity Song of the Month:

CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! Sings Wham's “Last Christmas,” 2013

Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! has performed with the legendary Patti Smith, stood in for Tegan and Sara when they couldn’t make the Polaris Music Prize Gala, and recently opened for Mayor Rob Ford at the 47^th annual Cavalcade of Lights festival at Nathan Phillips Square. Now, for their first recording available on iTunes the 70-member choir has covered Wham! Classic “Last Christmas.” All the proceeds from the sale of the song go to MSF/Doctors Without Borders. The group is also trying to start a gift chain, whereby you purchase the song for 99-cents, gift it to three people and ask them to do the same. — K.B.

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Cause Song of the Month:

PLASTIC ONO BAND, “Give Peace A Chance,” 1969

This song is ubiquitous this time of year but never gets old. “Just give peace a chance” was the response John Lennon gave a member of the press when asked what he and Yoko Ono hoped to achieve with their “bed-ins for peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal for their honeymoon. “Give Peace A Chance” was recorded on four-track in Room 1742 at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel on June 1, 1969 at the time of the Vietnam War. It features Lennon and Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers on acoustic guitar and Ono on handclaps, tambourine and backing vocals. In the room were journalists and such celebs as Timothy Leary, Petula Clark and Allen Ginsberg. Buy it here. — K.B.

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Product of the Month

Freshii, the global fresh food chain founded by Canadian Matthew Corrin, has teamed up with charity Free The Children to help build school kitchens and vegetable gardens in developing communities overseas. By purchasing the reusable green bowl (with lid) for $5 at Freshii, proceeds go to this initiative to help support school lunch programs. In return, Freshii customers can sign up for exclusive green bowl freebies. The sale of 15,340 bowls equals one kitchen and garden, which means approximately 500 students in that community will be fed a healthy lunch every day. According to Free The Children, 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry in the developing world. — K.B.

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"We started to raise money and to define what we wanted to accomplish — to help young people dealing with various teenage problems, facing illness — cancer is close to our hearts—and to promote the use of music to help them find a passion in life. Every year since then it’s been growing, more than we ever expected and the reaction has been amazingly positive." — Simple Plan drummer Chuck Comeau tells Samaritanmag's Liisa Ladouceur, in 2013, about the Simple Plan Foundation.

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