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Q&A: Larry King Recalls Heart Attack, Talks Cardiac Foundation, Women
Q&A: Larry King Recalls Heart Attack, Talks Cardiac Foundation, Women Larry King with 7-year-old Mohammed Umer in 2006. The boy was air-lifted from Afghanistan to the U.S. for surgery to fix a hole in his heart and blockage to the lungs — paid for by The Larry King Cardiac Foundation. Renowned talk show host Larry King — whose Larry King Now airs…
Energy Room Named After Noted Canadian Magazine Editor Linda Lewis
Energy Room Named After Noted Canadian Magazine Editor Linda Lewis Weighing less than 100 lbs and battling Leukemia, Linda Lewis walks the runway at the 2013 Well Dressed for Spring fundraising event for Wellspring Cancer Support Network.A room offering free treatments to cancer patients will be named after noted editor Linda Lewis at Toronto’s Wellspring…
Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event
Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event A dapper and cancer free Scott Thompson struts down the runway at Holt Renfrew's Well Dressed For Spring, benefitting Wellspring. The actor-comedian was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkins gastric lymphoma in 2009.Hannibal/Kids In The Hall actor-comedian Scott Thompson and other cancer…
Toronto Music Industry Gives Olympic Sport Ping Pong A Spin
Toronto Music Industry Gives Olympic Sport Ping Pong A Spin 2013 Bowling tournament first-place winners, MapleMusic (L to R): Mark Fucella, Bryan Columbus, Chris Cowley, Brant Hunt, and Jeff Hayden. The event, organized by The Feldman Agency, raised $25,000 for MusiCounts.The Winter Olympics 2014 ends the day before members of the Toronto music industry…
Hall of Famers Like Darryl Sittler Play In 135 Team Road Hockey Event
Hall of Famers Like Darryl Sittler Play In 135 Team Road Hockey Event Former Toronto Maple Leafs Captain signs a jersey at the 2013 Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer.Hockey Hall of Famers, including Darryl Sittler, Paul Coffey and Marcel Dionne, recently joined hundreds of road hockey-playing fans, musicians and media personalities for Road Hockey to Conquer…
New Terry Fox Fundraising Initiative Engages Students At 23 Campuses
New Terry Fox Fundraising Initiative Engages Students At 23 Campuses Terry Fox during the Marathon of Hope, which still inspires Canadians 33 years later.Thirty-three years after his Marathon of Hope inspired Canadians, Terry Fox remains one of the country’s finest examples of both athleticism and altruism. Terry Fox Runs continue to make millions of…
Country Junkie Singer Gord Bamford Writes Big Cheques For Sick Kids
Country Junkie Singer Gord Bamford Writes Big Cheques For Sick Kids L to R: Gord Bamford; Dianne Tuterra, Child Life team leader; and Jan Guerin, senior manager, donor relations, at the cheque presentation.Gord Bamford’s forthcoming album is called Country Junkie, but the acclaimed country singer-songwriter is a charitable junkie as well. He may project…
Permanent Makeup Tattooist Basma Hameed Hides Scars, Burns, Birthmarks
Permanent Makeup Tattooist Basma Hameed Hides Scars, Burns, Birthmarks Burn victim Basma Hameed before and after innovative cosmetic tattoo procedures.Basma Hameed has a mission: to help those with disfiguring scars and markings look and feel better through an innovative corrective technique called para-medical scar camouflaging, a form of cosmetic…
Van Buuren, Guthrie Hit About Cancer; Warn Of Bogus Charities
Van Buuren, Guthrie Hit About Cancer; Warn Of Bogus Charities (L to R) Armin van Buuren performs with Trevor Guthrie at the 2013 MuchMusic Video Awards, Toronto — photo courtesy of MuchMusic.The smash hit “This Is What It Feels Like” by Dutch trance music DJ Armin van Buuren and featuring Canadian singer Trevor Guthrie, formerly of the band soulDecision,…
Beyonce, Madonna, J-Lo, Florence Help Raise Millions For Girl Power
Beyonce, Madonna, J-Lo, Florence Help Raise Millions For Girl Power Madonna promo shot — courtesy of Warner Music Canada.A massive fundraising concert organized by Chime For Change co-founders Frida Giannini, actress Salma Hayek Pinault and singer Beyonce, raised S4.3 million over the weekend to help girls and women in 70 different countries achieve…
Queen Extravaganza YouTube Sensation Records No More Hurting People Anthem
Queen Extravaganza YouTube Sensation Records No More Hurting People Anthem Marc Martel would love to go on Ellen again, reach out to the people who viewed his Queen Extravaganza audition video “Somebody To Love” 7.7 million times, and if American Idol hadn’t recently ended even go on there again to perform, as he did when Brian May and Roger Taylor…
Nationwide Yard Sales Turn Clutter into Cash Battling Breast Cancer
Nationwide Yard Sales Turn Clutter into Cash Battling Breast Cancer 2009 Yard Sale for the Cure, in Toronto's Kew Gardens, sponsored by 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Simple ideas sometimes net the best results. Just look at Yard Sale for the Cure, the annual event which raises money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation through coordinated but independently staged…
Actor Paul Newman's Legacy Lives On In Newman's Own
Actor Paul Newman's Legacy Lives On In Newman's Own Old family photo: Paul Newman, daughter Clea Newman, and wife Joanne Woodward.You’ve seen them on the grocery shelves: Newman’s Own products from salad dressings to pasta sauce, but did you know every after-tax penny of profit from sale of the foodstuffs is donated via Newman’s Own Foundation…
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA (L to R) Bluenotes COO/EVP Michael Roden and director of marketing Royal Nasager with the 2012 $5000 cheque for Cure Foundation.Bluenotes, the Canadian denim retailer geared towards teens and young adults, has long practiced corporate social responsibility. Established in 1984, the company which now operates 120 stores…
Singer Tenille Not A Me Generation Teen
Singer Tenille Not A Me Generation Teen Tenille singsNineteen-year-old Albertan country singer Tenille has been “playing it forward” for a number of years now, knowing there are many kids that don’t have it as good as she may. Her annual fundraiser, Big Hearts For Big Kids, has raised $350,000 so far for Sunrise House, a youth shelter in her hometown of…