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The Tragically Hip Will Receive Humanitarian Award At Juno Awards
The Tragically Hip Will Receive Humanitarian Award At Juno Awards The Tragically Hip — photo credit: Gordon HawkinsThe Tragically Hip will receive the Music Canada-sponsored Humanitarian Award at this year’s 50th annual Juno Awards ceremony. The Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding Canadian artists or music industry leaders whose humanitarian…
Black Lives Matter Canada Launches Canada Black Mutual Aid Fund
Black Lives Matter Canada Launches Canada Black Mutual Aid Fund Black Lives Matter Canada has launched a fundraising campaign for the Canada Black Mutual Aid Fund, which will provide a one-time $250 microgrant to one thousand Black individuals and families that are struggling during the COVID-19 outbreak. Applications open on Feb. 21 though the…
Cannibal Corpse And Metal Community Rally Around Shooting Victim
Cannibal Corpse And Metal Community Rally Around Shooting Victim The metal music community is continuing to come up with ways to raise money to help with medical expenses and eventual post-care for a 25-year-old guitarist who was paralyzed in a robbery last October in Buffalo, New York. Members of death metal legends Cannibal Corpse, whose original members are from Buffalo, have all signed a…
Yoga Helps At-Risk And Incarcerated Kids
Yoga Helps At-Risk And Incarcerated Kids New Leaf teacher Michelle Corbeil with kids from the Trails Youth InitiativesIt’s hard to believe that another chapter could possibly be added to the story of yoga, which already spans the globe and the millennia. And yet a new, perhaps unlikely group — at-risk and incarcerated youth — is discovering the stress…
Lacuna Coil Helps Provide Water Wells Through Rezophonic Music Project
Lacuna Coil Helps Provide Water Wells Through Rezophonic Music Project Cristina Scabbia, co-vocalist for Italian metal band Lacuna Coil, has a water well in her name in the Kajiado area of Kenya from her contribution to Rezophonic, an ambitious collaborative album, whose proceeds go to the world renown African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). “…
On-Ice Tragedy Leads To Hockey For Heart
On-Ice Tragedy Leads To Hockey For Heart (L to R): Wendel Clark, Darryl Sittler, Dave Garland (H&S Board of Directors member), Rob Weir, Jim Cuddy — photo credit: Roger Hallett On any given weekend you might find Oshawa, Ontario's Rob Weir catching a pass from former National Hockey League legend Darryl Sittler, attempting to deke around hall-of-…
Justin Bieber Donates Half-A-Million Dollars At End of Massey Hall Concert
Justin Bieber Donates Half-A-Million Dollars At End of Massey Hall Concert Justin Bieber presents $500,000 cheque to Children's Wish Foundation of Canada — photo credit: MuchMusic/George Pimentel for WireImageCharity was far from the minds of the ecstatic girls that comprised the majority of the 2750-capacity audience at Toronto’s Massey Hall last night (…
Richard Simmons, Gloria Gaynor, Blake McGrath Boogie Down For PMHF's Dance To Conquer Cancer
Richard Simmons, Gloria Gaynor, Blake McGrath Boogie Down For PMHF's Dance To Conquer Cancer Put on your short-shorts and get ready to boogie - that is if you wanna have some fun on the dance floor for a good cause. Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation (PMHF) has scored the inimitable Richard Simmons to lead its first ever Dance To Conquer…
Sarah McLachlan And Her Students Hope Their Free Christmas Song Inspires Generosity
Sarah McLachlan And Her Students Hope Their Free Christmas Song Inspires Generosity Sarah McLachlan and student from her School of MusicSarah McLachlan and students from Vancouver’s Sarah McLachlan School of Music (SoM) are offering a free original Christmas song the kids wrote and recorded with the hopes that people, in turn, will give money, however…
Nickelback And BC Community Stand Together For One-Year-Old Girl
Nickelback And BC Community Stand Together For One-Year-Old Girl Two British Columbia rock bands — one unknown and unsigned; the other, one of the biggest in the world — have joined forces to bring attention to the story of a one-year-old girl battling cancer. Chilliwack’s Pardon My Striptease put its song “Pray (For L.J)” for sale on iTunes to raise…
NHL Alumni Take Shot At Finding Cure For Alzheimer’s
NHL Alumni Take Shot At Finding Cure For Alzheimer’s (L to R) Mark Napier, Dr. Frank Turner, Johnny Bower, Dr. Dan Andreae and Mike Pelyk at the Social Work Doctors’ Colloquium’s Award of Merit celebration dinner The National Hockey League Alumni Association has raised more than $16 million for Alzheimer's disease research since launching a Toronto…
Cheryl Perera’s OneChild Seeks To Break The Chains Of Child Sex Slavery
Cheryl Perera’s OneChild Seeks To Break The Chains Of Child Sex Slavery Cheryl Perera with at-risk Brazilian childrenToronto's Cheryl Perera was appalled when she learned about the child sex trade in Bangkok, Thailand during a high school civics class. But she soon turned her disgust into action as she convinced her parents and school principal to allow…
Wu-Tang Rapper Raekwon Gives Kids From His Hood A Chance
Wu-Tang Rapper Raekwon Gives Kids From His Hood A Chance Wu-Tang Clan member and solo artist Raekwon, who grew up in the low-income housing complex of Park Hill in Staten Island, NY, is involved in a new not-for-profit, Children's Literacy Society, to help the kids of his community. "It's definitely needed because it's so rough in my neighbourhood that…
Spirit of the West Release Bulembu To Benefit A Population Threatened With Extinction
Spirit of the West Release Bulembu To Benefit A Population Threatened With Extinction Spirit of the West's John Mann on a visit to BulembuImagine an entire population wiped off the face of the earth, due to the spread of HIV/AIDS. That is the startling reality of Swaziland, Africa, the only developing nation in the world with a negative population growth…
Salvation Army's Fill The Kettle Campaign Gets Modern With Google Maps
Salvation Army's Fill The Kettle Campaign Gets Modern With Google Maps We see them everywhere, as commonplace in the holiday season as a Christmas tree, multi-coloured lights and people with their arms full of shopping bags — volunteer “bell-ringers” from The Salvation Army, standing at mall doors and street corners hoping for a donation in the…