War Child Canada

The Tragically Hip Will Receive Humanitarian Award At Juno Awards

The Tragically Hip Will Receive Humanitarian Award At Juno Awards The Tragically Hip — photo credit: Gordon HawkinsThe Tragically Hip will receive the Music Canada-sponsored Humanitarian Award at this year’s 50th annual Juno Awards ceremony. The Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding Canadian artists or music industry leaders whose humanitarian…

Gary Slaight Juno Awards Program Exclusive Interview

Gary Slaight Juno Awards Program Exclusive Interview Gary Slaight receives the Humanitarian Award at the Juno Gala Dinner & Awards, March 24, Vancouver — photo credit: CARAS/iPhoto.The benevolence demonstrated by Gary Slaight, this year’s Humanitarian Award recipient at the Juno Awards last month, and the Slaight Family Foundation over which he…

Chantal Kreviazuk Auctioning Off Intimate Home Concert For War Child

Chantal Kreviazuk Auctioning Off Intimate Home Concert For War Child Chantal Kreviazuk supporting War Child — photo by Donald WeberSinger-pianist Chantal Kreviazuk is offering to perform a concert in someone's home to support War Child Canada to the highest bidder. The member of the Order of Canada and multiple Juno Award winner recently launched the…

Use Your Aeroplan Miles To Help Syrian Refugees

Use Your Aeroplan Miles To Help Syrian Refugees

Weddings Parties Anything: Donate Your Aeroplan Miles In Someone's Name For Charity

Weddings Parties Anything: Donate Your Aeroplan Miles In Someone's Name For Charity Aeroplan members have already donated more than 410 million miles to various charities to help offset their travel costs as part of the Beyond Miles program and now they can donate on someone’s behalf — for weddings, parties, anything, even in memory of or for no…

Liz Marshall Documents Animal Suffering In Our Ghosts In The Machine

Liz Marshall Documents Animal Suffering In Our Ghosts In The Machine From Our Ghosts In The Machine documentary: this rescued beagle still has the tattoo from when it was experimented on in a research lab — photo credit: Jo-Anne McArthur.Liz Marshall knows the topic of animal rights is a tough subject. She knows most people would rather look away. That’s…

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…

Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy

Simple Plan's Humanitarian Legacy (L to R) Simple Plan's Sébastien Lefebvre, Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau visit a fan at a hospital in Montreal.At what age will you think about your legacy? For drummer Chuck Comeau of multi-platinum-selling pop-punkers Simple Plan, it started at 26. That’s how old he was when he and his bandmates — frontman Pierre…

Billy Talent, Kardinal, Lights, Harmer Contrast Their Childhood With War Kids

Billy Talent, Kardinal, Lights, Harmer Contrast Their Childhood With War Kids Billy Talent, Kardinal Offishall, Sarah Harmer, Lights and Kay are among the Canadian musicians who reflected on their own childhood for a series of online video clips, as part of War Child Canada’s powerful advertising campaign, entitled JAM. So far the Billy Talent, Kardinal and Harmer videos have been released.…

Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical

Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical Children should not be carrying weapons and recruited as soldiers, this we know. Sadly, it is happening in various war-torn countries. As part of a larger campaign War Child Canada has launched, pro-bono partner John St. advertising agency in Toronto created a thought-provoking public service announcement (PSA) that…

Down With Webster Down For A Cause

Down With Webster Down For A Cause Down With Webster: Tyler Armes, second from leftToronto’s Down With Webster has reached a point where the gold-selling band will start looking for a cause to put its name behind.  The seven-piece funky hip hop outfit has already done charity work for War Child Canada and appeared on Free The Children’s We Day event. “…

Got Your Goat? Why Not Buy A Unique Life-Changing Gift?

Got Your Goat? Why Not Buy A Unique Life-Changing Gift? Photo credit: courtesy of World VisionThis Christmas, why not buy a goat, a mango tree or a deep well for someone? At global non-profits, such as Plan Canada, World Vision, Oxfam, War Child and UNICEF, the charities offer what many of us will perceive to be unique gifts, but go a long way in helping…

War Child Canada’s Dr. Nutt Given Ontario’s Highest Honour

War Child Canada’s Dr. Nutt Given Ontario’s Highest Honour Humanitarian Dr. Samantha Nutt, co-founder and executive director of War Child Canada, has received the Order of Ontario, the highest official honour in the province.  The ceremony will be held on January 28 at Queen’s Park in Toronto, and bestowed by the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant…

Bloody Bling

Bloody Bling

Diamonds aren’t everyone’s best friend

Red-1 remembers wearing his chain with the diamond-encrusted Figure IV Records medallion to the 2000 Ghana Music Awards in West Africa, but when he and fellow Rascalz rapper Misfit boarded a plane to Sierra Leone the next day, he put the bling away. The Vancouver rapper had just been debriefed on conflict or blood diamonds—illicit…

Musicians Busk in Toronto for War Child

Musicians Busk in Toronto for War Child War Child Canada’s second annual Busking For Change, a day of music on the streets of Toronto, will take place Sept. 29. Notable artists, including Chantal Kreviazuk, Ill Scarlett and Sass Jordan, will be busking throughout the city at pre-determined locations in downtown Toronto.  Money collected at each site, and through online donations, will support…