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Book Editor Seeks True Stories About Living With Multiple Sclerosis
Book Editor Seeks True Stories About Living With Multiple Sclerosis Toronto-based therapist and editor Liz Pearl, M.Ed., is seeking personal stories from people who are living with Multiple Sclerosis for an upcoming book entitled, MS—My Story, published by PK Press. The deadline for a one-paragraph synopsis is January 9, 2012, and, upon acceptance,…
Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone
Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone Earlier this year, Simple Plan sold a limited-edition T-Shirt benefitting The Red Cross’ Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts, and as 2011 draws to a close, the pop-rock band has co-designed another T-shirt with clothing retailer Bluenotes with the proceeds going to Kids Help Phone.…
Blank-Fest Expands To Calgary, Releases Free Download Album
Blank-Fest Expands To Calgary, Releases Free Download Album The band Stampede Six help gather winter items at Calgary's Blank-fest“It’s about the homeless. Nothing more, nothing less.” That, in a nutshell, is the slogan and modus operandi behind Blank-Fest, a growing network of independent music festivals held in Canada, the U.S. and England designed to…
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors If a picture is worth a thousand words, Toronto's Andrew MacNaughtan has unleashed an important monologue on behalf of World Vision with his brand new coffee table book, Grace: Africa in Photographs. The result of a three-week sojourn to Kenya and Tanzania taken by…
“Living Gifts”: The Ten Thousand Villages Program That Keeps On Giving
“Living Gifts”: The Ten Thousand Villages Program That Keeps On Giving If you find yourself in the charitable spirit during the holidays, you can give the gift of sustainability. From now until the end of the year, Ten Thousand Villages — the oldest and largest Fair Trade organization in North America with an online presence atwww.TenThousandVillages.…
TOMS Creates Movember Shoes Feat. Little White 'Stache
TOMS Creates Movember Shoes Feat. Little White 'Stache The Classics are $70 and the Botas are $105 and are both available for purchase on www.TOMS.ca. Long after you’ve shaved off that moustache you're growing this month for Movember to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer, you could have a pair of shoes that will not only be a reminder of…
Former Homeless Youth Lead Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk
Former Homeless Youth Lead Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk Pumping up the participants of last year's Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk event, Dundas Square, Toronto For the first time, a group of current and former Covenant House residents will be joining the 4th annual Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk. The…
Charity By Mazzucco Can Fetch Thousands From One Painting
Charity By Mazzucco Can Fetch Thousands From One Painting An art piece by top fashion photographer and visual artist Raphael Mazzucco from his CULO project Renowned Canadian fashion photographer and visual artist Raphael Mazzucco has an enviable job of traveling the world shooting for Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, Victoria’s Secret, Guess Jeans,…
Movember Is Here! Mo Bros Unite Worldwide To Battle Prostate Cancer
Movember Is Here! Mo Bros Unite Worldwide To Battle Prostate Cancer Mexican, Dali, Imperial, Fu Manchu, Pancho Villa, Handlebar, Pencil, Chevron, Walrus – if we’re talking moustaches, it must be Movember. For a 30-day stretch during the month of November, men in 14 countries unite in their refusal to shave their upper lip; the resulting growth their…
Auctioned Ozzy, Swift, Nickelback, Garth, Seger Goodies To Help Build Wells
Auctioned Ozzy, Swift, Nickelback, Garth, Seger Goodies To Help Build Wells Treane Peake in Cameroon, Africa with her Obakki Foundation From NASCAR drivers to NHL players and tons of musicians, Vancouver fashion designer and philanthropist Treana Peake has been able to gather hundreds of signed items to auction off for her Obakki Foundation, which raises…
Rising Hip Hop Artist Reema Major: "I coulda been one of those kids"
Rising Hip Hop Artist Reema Major: "I coulda been one of those kids" Sixteen-year-old rising hip hop artist Reema Major, currently working on her debut album for G7/Universal Music Canada and Cherrytree/Interscope in the U.S., doesn’t remember much about her life in Sudan. She was just a toddler when her mother had the opportunity to come to…
Q&A: War Child's Sam Nutt Discusses First Book and Pros and Cons of Humanitarian Aid
Q&A: War Child's Sam Nutt Discusses First Book and Pros and Cons of Humanitarian Aid As the founder and executive director of War Child Canada and War Child U.S.A., the non-profit organization that helps raise awareness and support of war affected children globally through local and international initiatives, Toronto’s Dr. Samantha Nutt has…
Carbon for Water is Solving Problems in Kenya
Carbon for Water is Solving Problems in Kenya A still from the film, Carbon for Water, by American directors Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Carbon for Water is the name of both a life-changing program in Kenya and a 21-minute film about the project that was shown at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on Sunday afternoon.…
Alzheimer's Cases Predicted To Rise 1000 Percent: What's Being Done To Find A Cure
Alzheimer's Cases Predicted To Rise 1000 Percent: What's Being Done To Find A Cure Pictured: A caregiver and her husband who has Alzheimer's disease. Caregivers across Canada today spend 231 million hours a year caring for someone with dementia. This number is expected to jump to 756 million hours per year within a generation. A half a million…
Inaugural Road Hockey Tourney Raises $2.4 Million To Fight Cancer
Inaugural Road Hockey Tourney Raises $2.4 Million To Fight Cancer They shot, and they scored! Over 1500 athletes — some, weathered NHL pros and others, regular Joes — laced up at Toronto's Ontario Place on October 1 for the first annual Road Hockey To Conquer Cancer and raised over $2.4 million in the process. Celebrity captains included ex-NHLers Jeremy Roenick, Johnny Bower, Scotty Bowman,…