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Tim Hortons Coffee Buys Camp for Kids During Daylong Initiative

Tim Hortons Coffee Buys Camp for Kids During Daylong Initiative Kids having a blast in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, at one of the Tim Horton Children's Foundation camps — photo courtesy of Tim Hortons. Few of us need encouragement to drink more coffee but it’s nice to know that, on one day at least, our collective java obsession can actually bring about…

An Unusual Tour: Pledge For Justin Hines And He'll Pledge Back

An Unusual Tour: Pledge For Justin Hines And He'll Pledge Back What Justin Hines will do for charity: here he is in 2009 rappelling down a San Diego building for Kids Included Together.Justin Hines' upcoming Vehicle of Change tour will not only bring exposure to his new album, How We Fly (out on May 14), but after hopefully raising $40,000 through a…

Rush, Blue Rodeo, Finger Eleven Sign Guitars For Couple's Charity With Film In The Works

Rush, Blue Rodeo, Finger Eleven Sign Guitars For Couple's Charity With Film In The Works April Wine sign guitar for Music Heals The Soul prior to their Cambridge, Ont. concert, Sept. 29, 2012. (L to R) Music Heals The Soul's Kathy DeAbreu; April Wine's Myles Goodwyn, Brian Greenway and Richard Lanthier; Music Heals The Soul's Kevin DeAbreu.Kevin…

Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings Up For Auction For War Child

Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings Up For Auction For War Child Up for auction to benefit War Child: Michael Adamson, Moore Gallery - Title: Of A Water Pavilion, 2011 Dimensions: 30FreeHand, an art auction benefitting War Child, features 50 works from established and emerging contemporary artists, along with another six created by children from War Child’s…

Benefit Set for Four-Year-Old Boy Battling Leukemia

Benefit Set for Four-Year-Old Boy Battling Leukemia Fundraisers don’t come more worthwhile than one planned next month for four-year-old Tristen Silva. Just days before Christmas 2012, Tristen was diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or cancer of the white blood cells. Parents Reno Silva and Pearl Hutchens-Silva had initially taken him to a walk…

National Kidney Month Highlights Maddeningly Common Disease

National Kidney Month Highlights Maddeningly Common Disease polycystic kidney vs. healthy kidney.We all face mortality, but Ilana Pekar and her son Arie face it more keenly than most. Pekar suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Though rarely name-checked in the evil pantheon of life-threatening genetic diseases, PKD is nevertheless maddeningly…

Toy Lending Libraries A Widespread Concept

Toy Lending Libraries A Widespread Concept If you’re a parent who is strapped by a limited income but still wishes you could spoil your children with various toys, an alternative solution might be closer than you think. Most family and community centres have toy libraries, where parents can sign out toys for their children for a couple of weeks at a time…

Donate To Food Banks And Shelters To Honour Stompin' Tom

Donate To Food Banks And Shelters To Honour Stompin' Tom Stompin' Tom with his long-time pal and promoter/manager Brian Edwards.In lieu of flowers, the family of Stompin’ Tom Connors has asked that donations be made to your local food bank or homeless shelter in his name. Connors knew what it was like to go without bare necessities. Although he later…

Higher Education for African Girls The Focus of New Charity

Higher Education for African Girls The Focus of New Charity Graduates of Beautiful World Canada's education scholarships in Uganda, Dec. 2012.Most would agree the problems facing Africa are many and complex. They are also interdependent which means solving one crisis invariably impacts another, hopefully in a positive way. The trick is figuring out where…

Toupee For A Day: A Hairpiece-Raising Idea

Toupee For A Day: A Hairpiece-Raising Idea It's not too early for these kids from River Valley School to wear toupees. A little over two years ago, Calgary-based throat cancer survivor Heather Dougall was sitting on her couch watching TV when she came up with what she says “was the silliest idea she ever had.” And the silliness has spread to Niagara, Ont…

After Breast Cancer Reaches Survivors With Free Post-Mastectomy Apparel

After Breast Cancer Reaches Survivors With Free Post-Mastectomy Apparel After Breast Cancer (ABC) founder Alicia Vianga at her booth for the Toronto Argonauts Pink Game versus the Montreal Alouettes. A portion of the tickets ABC sold was donated back to the program.Much of the public discourse surrounding breast cancer focuses on the battle against it,…

The Musical Ladies of Ladybird Animal Sanctuary

The Musical Ladies of Ladybird Animal Sanctuary (L to R) Janine Stoll, Lisa Winn, Melissa McClelland, co-founders of Ladybird Animal SanctuaryIt is relatively commonplace for people to donate money and their time to a wide range of charities and good causes. It takes a different level of commitment to go out and create your own charitable organization.…

Molson Gets Volunteers To Give’r To Parks, Rewards With Concert Tix

Molson Gets Volunteers To Give’r To Parks, Rewards With Concert Tix Molson Red Leaf Project volunteers at Barrie, Ont.'s Golden Meadow Park August 3, weeding, garden plot harvesting and doing general clean up around the park.. Even in an age of widespread and often impressive corporate social responsibility, the environmentally forward Red Leaf Project…

Pigs in Peril Find Forever Homes at Snooters Sanctuary

Pigs in Peril Find Forever Homes at Snooters Sanctuary Yorkshire pigs Forest and Earl, age 7, saved from a backyard breeder, who sells for BBQsWhether abandoned by overwhelmed pet owners, saved from slaughterhouses or discarded due to disability, an unusual collection of animals have lucked out in finding forever homes at the Snooters Farm Animal…

Sam Roberts And The Girls To Play Acoustic Charity Concert

Sam Roberts And The Girls To Play Acoustic Charity Concert Sam RobertsSam Roberts, Sarah Harmer and Kathleen Edwards have been confirmed for this year’s acoustic Holiday Jam at Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre, December 14. The artists — all on the management rosters of the concert organizers Eggplant Entertainment, Bernie Breen Management & Dave…