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Fefe Dobson Calls Domestic Abuse A Silent Cry
Fefe Dobson Calls Domestic Abuse A Silent Cry Fefe Dobson has performed at benefit concerts in support of women’s shelters before and the thought has never left her to one day start her own. The 26-year-old Toronto pop singer has quite a following. The video for her song “Stuttering” has close to four million views on YouTube and “Ghost” two-and-a-half…
Free Workshops And Contest For Toronto's Young Social Business Entrepreneurs
Free Workshops And Contest For Toronto's Young Social Business Entrepreneurs Toronto’s young socially conscious entrepreneurs are being invited to enter their business idea in a contest that will provide funding and mentorship. Although Project Wildfire hopes to attract participants from Toronto Community Housing neighbourhoods, the contest is open to anyone in the city aged 19 to 29,…
Rapper Hopes Autobiographical Song About Sexual Assault, Gun Violence Helps Others
Rapper Hopes Autobiographical Song About Sexual Assault, Gun Violence Helps Others Canadian rapper and recent Juno nominee Eternia has just revealed her innermost secrets through her new song and video, “To The Future,” in support of Kids Help Phone (1-800-668-6868). The song is from her latest album, At Last, on Brooklyn, NY indie label Fatbeats. “It basically tells my personal experiences…
Glee Does Good On New Global TV Show
Glee Does Good On New Global TV Show Canada Sings judges — Photo credit: Handout Insight/Global / (L to R) Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice; Jann Arden, Simple Plan's Pierre BouvierThe winner of a new Global Television series will donate $10,000 to the charity of their choice and the runner-up $2000 to their charity. In Canada Sings, workplace glee…
Down With Webster Down For A Cause
Down With Webster Down For A Cause Down With Webster: Tyler Armes, second from leftToronto’s Down With Webster has reached a point where the gold-selling band will start looking for a cause to put its name behind. The seven-piece funky hip hop outfit has already done charity work for War Child Canada and appeared on Free The Children’s We Day event. “…
Sammy Hagar Gives 100 Percent of Profits From Restaurant Chain To Community
Sammy Hagar Gives 100 Percent of Profits From Restaurant Chain To Community After Sammy Hagar sold 80 percent of his Cabo Wabo Tequila business in 2007 to Gruppo Campari for $80 million, the rock singer and his wife started The Hagar Family Foundation, a private non-profit which eliminates much of the red tape that can hamper funds getting quickly to the…
Canada Steps Up for Japan in Crisis
Canada Steps Up for Japan in Crisis Photo courtesy of Canadian Red Cross / IFRCAs Japan continues to pinball between almost incomprehensible disasters, the world is stepping up to help. And Canada is no exception. In addition to the federal government — which has pledged an array of expertise and technical assistance as well as the Canadian Forces —…
Pop-Rock Band Simple Plan Selling "Help Japan" T-Shirts For Red Cross Relief Efforts
Pop-Rock Band Simple Plan Selling "Help Japan" T-Shirts For Red Cross Relief Efforts Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan, whose album sales have topped 7 million copies worldwide, has created a limited-edited T-shirt with all proceeds going to the Red Cross for the Japan earthquake/ Asia Pacific tsunami relief efforts. The band also donated $10,…
Canadian Gov't Sets Up Comprehensive Contact Page To Inquire About Loved Ones In Japan, How To Donate
Canadian Gov't Sets Up Comprehensive Contact Page To Inquire About Loved Ones In Japan, How To Donate The Canadian government is suggesting that Canadians wanting to help victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami should give money, not clothing or food. The web site for Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade lists everything from…
Nikki Sixx Inspires Homeless Youth To Make Music, Take Photos And Become Flacks
Nikki Sixx Inspires Homeless Youth To Make Music, Take Photos And Become Flacks Nikki Sixx’s kids, the product of his generous Running Wild In The Night music program at Covenant House California which serves more than 10,000 homeless youth a year, are making more of the program than even the Mötley Crüe and Sixx: A.M. bassist imagined. In May 2008, Sixx donated $250,000 to the Los Angeles and…
Glee Star Matthew Morrison Wants Legacy of Performing Arts High Schools
Glee Star Matthew Morrison Wants Legacy of Performing Arts High Schools Matthew MorrisonGlee’s leading man Matthew Morrison is now officially juggling two time-consuming careers, one playing high school teacher Will Schuester on the hit musical-comedy television series about a glee club; the other as a recording artist with an album due May 10; the single…
Hannah Georgas Calls Juvenile Diabetes Most important Thing On Her Agenda
Hannah Georgas Calls Juvenile Diabetes Most important Thing On Her Agenda Photo credit: Vanessa HeinsVancouver singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas, and 2011 new artist Juno Award nominee, is hoping to do more with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation once she has more time. Her father passed away in 2009 from the disease. Proceeds from her 2009 EP, The…
Man Plays 48-Hour Guitar Marathon To Raise Money For Camp Trillium
Man Plays 48-Hour Guitar Marathon To Raise Money For Camp Trillium Duane Rutter plays guitar at Robot Cafe to raise money for Camp TrilliumTwo days after Duane Rutter played acoustic guitar for 48 hours to raise funds in honour of his mother, who died of cancer 10 years ago, and he was back at his day job. “I've got some considerable numbness in my…
411 TV Aims To Empower 7000 Female Students
411 TV Aims To Empower 7000 Female Students A youth initiative to empower girls is expanding its scope with an in-school live “television” presentation entitled 411 TV. The 411 Initiative For Change organization, sometimes simply called 411, will be touring the program in 20 Ontario schools from March 21 to April 1 and is expect to reach 7000 female students. Since launching in 1999, 411 has…
TOMS Shoes Creates Spring Line From Late Photojournalist Dan Eldon's Journals
TOMS Shoes Creates Spring Line From Late Photojournalist Dan Eldon's Journals TOMS, the American shoe line whose "one for one" policy is to donate one pair of new shoes to a child in need for each pair bought, has just launched its spring collection, inspired by late photojournalist Dan Eldon. On July 12, 1993, 22-year-old Eldon, one of Reuters…