breast cancer
Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives
Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and filmmaker/activist Alice Aedy captured 12 women of diverse ages and backgrounds through a film and photo series called “In A Letter to My Loved Ones” as part of Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman campaign to raise awareness of…
Canadian 80s Band Chalk Circle Reunite For Breast Cancer Benefit Concert
Canadian 80s Band Chalk Circle Reunite For Breast Cancer Benefit Concert Chalk Circle — photo credit: David Macmillan.Influential 1980s new wave band Chalk Circle are playing a reunion concert to raise money for the Rethink Breast Cancer organization. Taking place at Lee's Palace in Toronto, Ont. on March 7, the show has been titled "Be Tracy's Ally" for…
Free Nipple Tattoos For Breast Cancer Survivors Supported By GoFundMe Page
Free Nipple Tattoos For Breast Cancer Survivors Supported By GoFundMe Page Pre- and post-fingernail tattoo — Photo via Eternal Ink Facebook pageA St. Louis, IL area tattooist's rendering of two realistic looking fingernails will soon mean cancer survivors and amputees will be able to experience his cosmetic services for free. On Jan. 15, Eternal Ink's…
Sheryl Crow-backed Breast Cancer Initiative Makes Canadian Debut
Sheryl Crow-backed Breast Cancer Initiative Makes Canadian Debut The charitable space surrounding breast cancer is noisy. But a Toronto-based non-profit hopes the presence (albeit distantly) of Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow will raise awareness and funds for one of its cornerstone programs assisting survivors of the disease. From Oct. 12…
Arcade Fire-boosted Young Rock Band Raises Money For Cancer & Haiti
Arcade Fire-boosted Young Rock Band Raises Money For Cancer & Haiti The Brothers Dubé in Haiti. They would spend up to eight hours a day in the back of that pick up just kicking back and playing tunes and writing musicThe Brothers Dubé impressed Montreal’s Arcade Fire enough for the Grammy Award-winning band to jam with them, but when they discovered…
Young Woman Other Than Angelina Jolie Brings Attention To Breast Cancer Gene
Young Woman Other Than Angelina Jolie Brings Attention To Breast Cancer Gene Mary Quick and daughter Theresa — photo courtesy of Theresa Quick.Actress Angelina Jolie may have gone public with her decision to have a double mastectomy, but it’s a decision countless others have made for similar reasons. For Toronto brand marketer Theresa Quick, an envelope…
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…
Glossybox Plans More Cause-themed Beauty Product Deliveries
Glossybox Plans More Cause-themed Beauty Product Deliveries Glossybox's first cause-themed beauty package was last October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.When Germany’s Glossybox, the monthly mailed subscriber-based beauty sample box, launched in Canada a year ago, the new Glossybox Canada decided that one of the themed boxes would be cause related.…
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,…
Cancer Patients Transformed By Gorgeous Henna Dome Designs
Cancer Patients Transformed By Gorgeous Henna Dome Designs Photo credit: Frances Darwin; model: Tara Schubert; henna: Darcy Vasudev If the best way to de-stigmatize something is to boldly put it under people's noses, then Frances Darwin's Henna Heals is making conditional female baldness both acceptable and, perhaps improbably, kind of chic. The…
Princess Margaret Hospital's One-Day Diagnostic Centre Expands
Princess Margaret Hospital's One-Day Diagnostic Centre Expands Pictured: Emmanuelle Gattuso, a breast cancer survivor, for whom The Gattuso Rapid Diagnostic Centre is namedToronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital was the first to create and establish a one-day breast cancer diagnosis program six years ago and in 2009 launched The Gattuso Rapid…
The Reason For Hope Not-For-Profit Society: More Than Pink Ribbons
The Reason For Hope Not-For-Profit Society: More Than Pink Ribbons There are so many large not-for-profit cancer organizations, but starting your own charity makes a personal mark, not only by impacting the beneficiaries but by giving friends and family a purpose, a legacy to honour, champion and continue. One also has control over where to designate…
They Look Good And Do Good: Pinups For Pink Calendar Girls
They Look Good And Do Good: Pinups For Pink Calendar Girls One thousand more Pinups for Pink! 2011 charity calendars will be made available Dec. 20 in aid of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Fun, sexy and kitschy, among the Vancouver women who posed for the pics are actress Ona Grauer, actress/producer Amanda Tapping, ET Canada’s Erin Cebula and…
Toronto’s Melanie Fiona Ambassador For ‘Empowering Women Through Music’
Toronto’s Melanie Fiona Ambassador For ‘Empowering Women Through Music’ Toronto R&B-pop singer Melanie Fiona, whose song “It Kills Me” was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in January and debut album, The Bridge, is up for a JUNO Award this month, has aligned herself with U.S. non-profit Music Unites. The organization is dedicated to bringing music…
Harley-Davidson Offers Clothing Line For Rethink Breast Cancer
Harley-Davidson Offers Clothing Line For Rethink Breast Cancer Legendary motorcycle company Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada has partnered with Rethink Breast Cancer to offer a new clothing line called Pink Label, with 10 percent of the proceeds donated to the charity. The Pink Label Collection is comprised of 12 of the most popular women’s MotorClothes…