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Honey Nut Cheerios Free Seed Campaign Launched to Protect Bees
Honey Nut Cheerios Free Seed Campaign Launched to Protect Bees Honey Nut Cheerios box with disappearing BuzzBee — photo provided by KetchumA new Honey Nut Cheerios campaign called Bring Back The Bees has begun rolling out to protect bees, and by extension, protect our food supplies. According to Greenpeace, Honey bees perform about 80 percent of all…
Hard Core Logo Live to Give Proceeds to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Hard Core Logo Live to Give Proceeds to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Hard Core Logo Live cast — photo credit: Jason Bolduc.The stage production of Michael Turner’s book Hard Core Logo, which was made into the 1996 classic Canadian film by screenwriter Noel S. Baker and director Bruce McDonald, has been mounted as a musical by BFL Theatre company…
Are You Disobedient for the Good of Society? Nominations Open for $250K USD Award
Are You Disobedient for the Good of Society? Nominations Open for $250K USD Award Sitting Bull is an example of positive disobedience, according to MIT Media Labs — public domain photoCivil disobedience may potentially earn someone $250,000 USD ($336,023 CAD). That is the recently announced cash reward that will go to the winner of the first ever…
WATCH: All-Female Oxford University Group Sing Empowering Cyndi Lauper Hit for International Women's Day
WATCH: All-Female Oxford University Group Sing Empowering Cyndi Lauper Hit for International Women's Day The 2017 Oxford Belles — photo credit: screenshot from Millions of girls around the world are still being denied an education, so it's a powerful thing when smart women sing. That could be the tagline of the new video by Oxford University's all-…
Women Encouraged to Skip Work, Avoid Shopping and Wear Red for International Women’s Day
Women Encouraged to Skip Work, Avoid Shopping and Wear Red for International Women’s Day Screenshot from International Women's Day 2017 video. Anyone still galvanized by last January’s much-covered Women’s March, which saw an estimated five million people worldwide protest everything from gender inequality to immigrant and LGBTQ subjugation will want to…
Slaight Family Foundation pledges $12M to Support Indigenous Peoples over Five Years
Slaight Family Foundation pledges $12M to Support Indigenous Peoples over Five Years Gary Slaight with Indspire CEO Roberta Jamieson — photo courtesy of the Slaight Family Foundation.Canada’s forthcoming sesquicentennial celebrations may be fraught for aboriginal peoples, but one event from 2017 will be remembered as an across-the-board win for all. The…
Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools
Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools An impressive gesture by Chance the Rapper may change the way people think about the notoriously extravagant spending habits of hip-hop stars. The 23-year-old American musician and songwriter — whose acclaimed third mixtape Coloring Book recently made headlines as the first streaming-only…
ContraBanned Event At SXSW To Showcase Musical Acts From Muslim Ban Countries
ContraBanned Event At SXSW To Showcase Musical Acts From Muslim Ban Countries Faarrow — photo credit: Jon Weiner/Warner MusicAt a time when U.S. President Donald Trump continues push forward with his "Muslim ban," the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival will host some pointed counter-programming with the ContraBanned: #MusicUnites showcase. Taking…
Sting Addresses Current Media Attack While Honouring Jim Foley
Sting Addresses Current Media Attack While Honouring Jim Foley Sting, live at Toronto's Rebel, March 5 — screenshot.Alluding to the combative refrain from Donald Trump discrediting the media, musician Sting said Jim Foley, the 40-year-old American photojournalist who was abducted in 2012 in Syria and beheaded in 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS)…
March Is Music Therapy Awareness Month
March Is Music Therapy Awareness Month Staff at Snoeshoe Sam's in Kelowna, BC support A Night Out For Music Heals — photo via Music Heals Instagram pageWhile many people will be using the month of March to plan holiday getaways, the folks at Music Heals will be hard at work for Music Therapy Awareness Month, a month-long campaign to illustrate the value…
Rihanna Gets Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award
Rihanna Gets Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award Rihanna accepting her humanitarian award — photo via Harvard Foundation's official YouTube channelPop musician Rihanna has been awarded Harvard University's 2017 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. The star behind hit songs like "Umbrella" and "Work" started her Believe Foundation in 2006 and…
Singer/rapper Kesha Helps Spotlight National Eating Disorders Week with Online Support
Singer/rapper Kesha Helps Spotlight National Eating Disorders Week with Online Support Instagram post Fans of American singer/songwriter and rapper Kesha have yet another reason to celebrate the “Tik Tok” star: her advocacy. Kesha has thrown her support behind National Eating Disorders Week (#NEDAwareness Week), a weeklong campaign organized by the…
Staples Gives Almost $200k to Five Canadian Charities
Staples Gives Almost $200k to Five Canadian Charities Staples donated $10,000 USD to Pathways To Education — photo courtesy Torchia CommunicationsFive Canadian charities will split $150,000 USD ($196,442 CAD) as part of office supply retailer Staples' 2 Million & Change worldwide program, which directs funding to non-profit organizations focused on…
Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi Sends Strong Message; Thousands View Solidarity Screening
Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi Sends Strong Message; Thousands View Solidarity Screening Iranian director Asghar Farhadi — photo courtesy of Elevation Pictures.Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director who boycotted the Academy Awards last night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood because of President Trump’s Muslim ban, ended up winning the Oscar for best foreign…
Cineplex to Screen Rob Stewart documentary Sharkwater for Free
Cineplex to Screen Rob Stewart documentary Sharkwater for Free Rob Stewart — photo courtesy of Touchwood PR.If you have never seen Sharkwater, the impactful 2006 documentary by the late Rob Stewart about the illegal killing of sharks and their importance to the environment — or you’d just like to see it on the big screen — Cineplex will be showing the…