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Sacha Baron Cohen And Isla Fisher Give $1 Million To Help Syrian Refugees

Sacha Baron Cohen And Isla Fisher Give $1 Million To Help Syrian Refugees Screenshot from Sacha Baron Cohen's Facebook appeal.Married actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have donated $1 million ($1,382,600 CAD) to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee in order to help Syrian refugees. Baron Cohen, the comedic actor behind the…

Bono Bravely Offers Bicycle Tour With Him As Prize To Support AIDS Charity (RED)

Bono Bravely Offers Bicycle Tour With Him As Prize To Support AIDS Charity (RED) Bono with a bicycle — photo credit: (RED) YouTube channelU2 lead singer Bono is going to risk his life to support (RED), the international charity whose goal is to eliminate AIDS, and he's looking for some people to join him. The singer recently teamed up with charitable…

Michael Moore Writes Letter To Donald Trump: We Are All Muslim; Starts Campaign

Michael Moore Writes Letter To Donald Trump: We Are All Muslim; Starts Campaign Michael Moore makes his point at Trump Tower — photo: Facebook.Michael Moore is calling for the American people to visit his web page, sign the statement “WE ARE ALL MUSLIM,” and post a selfie holding their own “WE ARE ALL MUSLIM” sign on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, using…

Nicki Minaj Tweets About Playing Angola After Human Rights Foundation’s Urgent Plea

Nicki Minaj Tweets About Playing Angola After Human Rights Foundation’s Urgent Plea Despite an urgent plea from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) president and CEO Thor Halvorssen to cancel her upcoming concert in Luanda, Angola, due to the country’s continuous alleged human rights violations, it looks as though Grammy Award-winning rapper Nicki Minaj…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Takes Children's Hospital Patients To See Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Takes Children's Hospital Patients To See Star Wars: The Force Awakens Justin Trudeau with patients from CHEO — photo credit: Justin Trudeau TwitterCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave 20 patients from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario galactic bragging rights yesterday as they joined Trudeau for a…

Toy Company Mattel To Help Patients In Children's Hospitals Play

Toy Company Mattel To Help Patients In Children's Hospitals Play A patient plays at Mission Children's Hospital, a past Mattel grant recipient — photo credit: Tara HoranToy company Mattel's charitable foundation is doing its part to help hospitalized children play around thanks to $90,000 in grants it's giving to nine separate children's hospitals.…

Blues Musician and Liver Transplant Recipient Walter Trout To Support British Liver Trust

Blues Musician and Liver Transplant Recipient Walter Trout To Support British Liver Trust Walter Trout and wife Marie — photo credit: Greg WatermannIn 2014 elite blues guitarist Walter Trout almost died from the liver-destroying disease Hepatitis C. If it wasn't for a life-saving liver transplant as well as some financial goodwill from fans who raised $…

Mark Zuckerberg To Donate 99 Percent Of His Facebook Shares Towards Future Causes

Mark Zuckerberg To Donate 99 Percent Of His Facebook Shares Towards Future Causes Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan with daughter Max — photo credit: Mark Zuckerberg Facebook pageFacebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday he's divesting himself of 99 percent of his shares in the company towards good causes. Estimated at a worth of…

Harrison Ford Promotes Charitable Contest To Attend Star Wars: The Force Awakens Premiere

Harrison Ford Promotes Charitable Contest To Attend Star Wars: The Force Awakens Premiere Harrison Ford interrupts a conversation — photo credit: Star Wars YouTube channelHarrison Ford, the actor behind Star Wars' rascally Han Solo character, surprised some charitably-minded Star Wars fans with an impromptu cyber-meeting during the reveal of a galactic-…

MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week

MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week MusiCounts Aeroplan Match Week — photo credit: CARASThis week is the perfect time for music supporters to donate their Aeroplan miles, those reward miles travelers earn from Air Canada and partner airlines, to a good cause. The period of Nov. 23-29 has been declared MusiCounts…

Saxon Sells Heavy Metal Thunder France T-shirt in Memory of Nick Alexander

Saxon Sells Heavy Metal Thunder France T-shirt in Memory of Nick Alexander Proceeds from this shirt go to a charitable trust.Nick Alexander, the much-loved merchandise manager for such acts as Billy Talent, Cat Stevens, The Black Keys and Sum 41 who was killed in the Nov. 13 terrorist attack at Paris venue The Bataclan while working for Eagles of Death…

Blindfolded Muslim Man Seeks Hugs From Paris Mourners (Video)

Blindfolded Muslim Man Seeks Hugs From Paris Mourners (Video) Blindfolded man seeks hugs — photo credit: Ruptly Youtube videoMany people have been wrestling with how they should conduct themselves in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, France that left 130 dead on Nov. 13. For one man, who identified himself as a Muslim, it was hugs. Seen in a video…

Andy Kim Christmas Concert To Benefit CAMH Lineup Revealed

Andy Kim Christmas Concert To Benefit CAMH Lineup Revealed Andy Kim — photo credit: Andy Kim FacebookThe lineup for the 11th annual Andy Kim Christmas concert to support CAMH (The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ) has been revealed. On Dec. 9 at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre, Tom Cochrane, Barenaked Ladies, Cowboy Junkies' Michael and Margo…

Mitsubishi US0001 Lancer Evolution Final Edition Up For Auction for National MS Society

Mitsubishi US0001 Lancer Evolution Final Edition Up For Auction for National MS Society Lancer Evolution Final Edition — courtesy photo.The very first Lancer Evolution Final Edition, 1 of 1,600 produced, is up for auction on eBay to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in America. The Lancer Evolution is in its 10th year and final year…