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SickKids Hospital Gives Long-Term Teen Patients Own High School Prom
SickKids Hospital Gives Long-Term Teen Patients Own High School Prom SickKids patients hit the dancefloor at the after-hours exclusive teen event — photo courtesy of SickKids. The prom is one of the highlights of the school year for many students, but it’s a celebration that teenagers with serious health issues are often unfortunately shut out of.…
Katy Perry Gives Unconditionally To HIV Video, Dedicates To Malaysia Flight Victims
Katy Perry Gives Unconditionally To HIV Video, Dedicates To Malaysia Flight Victims Pop singer Katy Perry visits Madagascar with UNICEF, 2013 — photo courtesy of UNICEF.Katy Perry posted a message about the use of her song “Unconditionally” in a new music video for UNICEF that brought together HIV positive and HIV negative young people “and asked them to…
Michael Bublé Song For 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy Makes Him Blow A Kiss
Michael Bublé Song For 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy Makes Him Blow A Kiss Michael Bublé — photo credit: Warwick Saint.Every day is a beautiful day now for a 6-year old autistic boy from Calgary who received a personalized song on YouTube from Canadian crooner Michael Bublé. “Griffin not a lot rhymes with Griffin / But I still love you so much/ You’re so…
F1 champ Sebastian Vettel Aids Spinal Cord Research Via Helmet Auction
F1 champ Sebastian Vettel Aids Spinal Cord Research Via Helmet Auction Champion Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel raised almost $133,000 for not-for-profit spinal cord research foundation Wings for Life by auctioning off his racing helmet last year, and another helmet will go on the block to support the same cause at Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed…
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table This ping pong table, backstage at Toronto's Field Day music festival, has been signed by various artists on the bill and is up for auction on SPiN Toronto — photo credit: Andrew Williamson.A high-end ping pong table signed by Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches and many of the…
Tesla Motors Lets Others Copy Their Technology To Make Electric Cars
Tesla Motors Lets Others Copy Their Technology To Make Electric Cars Tesla Motors Model S — photo courtesy of Tesla Motors.Tesla Motors Inc. has elected to make all of its intellectual property available to the public in order to speed up the creation and evolution of fossil fuel-saving electric cars by allowing more players into the game. The Palo Alto…
Canadian Musician Sponsors Ride For Unison To Help Launch Emergency Fund
Canadian Musician Sponsors Ride For Unison To Help Launch Emergency Fund Unison Benevolent Fund co-founder and president Jodie Ferneyhough will be participating in the Ride For Unison fundraiser in Toronto, June 12 — photo from Facebook.If a professional Canadian musician hits a deer while on tour and lands up in hospital unable to work, if a self-…
1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Auction To Benefit Cancer and Alzheimer's
1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Auction To Benefit Cancer and Alzheimer's This beauty, a 1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K special roadster, goes up for auction July 12, via Bonhams. Proceeds will go to the Swedish cancer and Alzheimer's charities. A 1934 Mercedes-Benz 500 K special roadster, up for auction internationally July 12 via Bonhams auction house, is…
Affordable Donate & Learn Expo Taps Web Pros From LinkedIn, Bing, P&G
Affordable Donate & Learn Expo Taps Web Pros From LinkedIn, Bing, P&G Bassem Ghali leads the Donate & Learn Online Marketing Expo, Dec. 2013, which was attended by 450 people and raised more than $9000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto — photo credit: from Facebook.Fundraising can have tangible benefits for your career or business. And…
Canoe Heads Portaging Along Toronto’s Harbourfront Will Be Odd Sight
Canoe Heads Portaging Along Toronto’s Harbourfront Will Be Odd Sight Canoe Heads portaging in Toronto — photo courtesy of CH.Seeing 120 people along Toronto’s Harbourfront with canoes strapped to their backs this Saturday will be an odd sight for sure, but the grueling 15-kilometre paddle and portage is a fundraiser for Amici Camping Charity which sends…
Downie, Feist, Harmer, Mansbridge, Egoyan, Thompson Aid Waterkeeper
Downie, Feist, Harmer, Mansbridge, Egoyan, Thompson Aid Waterkeeper The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie shares his water story at the 2014 Waterkeeper Gala, presented by RBC. Photo credit: George Pimental Photography.We drink it, bathe in it, swim in it. So let’s take care of it. The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie co-hosted and curated a fundraising gala that…
R&B singer Jully Black to host Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp
R&B singer Jully Black to host Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp Jully Black will be donning her work out gear to lead the Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp — photo from Facebook.Maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle has been important to R&B/soul singer Jully Black since her high school years, so she should make a great host for…
Bruce Cockburn Records PSA, Adds Suicide Prevention To Causes
Bruce Cockburn Records PSA, Adds Suicide Prevention To Causes (L to R) Manager Bernie Finkelstein hands Bruce Cockburn the 2014 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award — photo credit: Grant W. Martin.Bruce Cockburn, who recently received the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award, has added another cause to his life-long interests — suicide awareness and…
Rude Band MAGIC! To Play First Charity Show But Music Is Their Cause
Rude Band MAGIC! To Play First Charity Show But Music Is Their Cause (L to R) MAGIC! drummer Alex Tanas, bassist Ben Spivak, singer Nasri Atweh and guitarist Mark Pelli — photo credit: Chapman Baehler.MAGIC!, the Los Angeles-based Canadian transplants whose reggae-pop song “Rude” went double-platinum in Canada before their debut album comes out in June,…
10-year-old Dreams Up Summer Camp Fundraiser For No.1 Killer of Kids
10-year-old Dreams Up Summer Camp Fundraiser For No.1 Killer of Kids Bayley Abrams (grey toque) and the Camp Imagine Volunteer Committee — photo credit: Michele Crockett. Who but a 10-year-old would imagine a way to fundraise that involves other kids and camp? That’s what Bayley Abrams, now 12, whose mom is the founder of the not for-profit Imagine a…