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Q&A: Headstones Frontman and Actor Hugh Dillon Talks Candidly About Addiction, Getting Help and Album Launch For CAMH

Q&A: Headstones Frontman and Actor Hugh Dillon Talks Candidly About Addiction, Getting Help and Album Launch For CAMH Headstones frontman Hugh Dillon — photo credit: David Bastedo Hugh Dillon could go “on and on,” he says, about addiction and recovery and hitting rock bottom before seeking help. The frontman for enduring Canadian rock band Headstones…

Q&A: Born This Way Foundation Exec Talks Lady Gaga's new Channel Kindness

Q&A: Born This Way Foundation Exec Talks Lady Gaga's new Channel Kindness The Channel Kindness reporters with (far left) Born Thie Way Foundation president Cynthia Germanotta (platinum hair) and executive director Maya Enista Smith (hair in bun) at the program's orientation in Feb. 2017 — photo courtesy of Born This Way Foundation. Lady Gaga’s…

Q&A: Rush Receive Humanitarian Award, Explain Quiet Stance on Philanthropy

Q&A: Rush Receive Humanitarian Award, Explain Quiet Stance on Philanthropy Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee receive the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Sprit Award, April 20, 2017, Toronto — photo credit: Grant W. Martin Photography. Rush may be loud onstage but the legendary Canadian rock band, which has sold more than 40 million albums in 40 years, is quiet…

Q&A: the Cliks’ Lucas Silveira interviews Fellow Transgender Rock Singer Laura Jane Grace

Q&A: the Cliks’ Lucas Silveira interviews Fellow Transgender Rock Singer Laura Jane Grace The Cliks' Lucas Silveira joins Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace at The House of Strombo — photo credit: Vanessa Heins. Laura Jane Grace is more than just the frontwoman for American punk rock band Against Me! She is also someone leading a gender identity…

Q&A: Sara Quin on her Mom, LGBTQ Issues and New Tegan and Sara Foundation

Q&A: Sara Quin on her Mom, LGBTQ Issues and New Tegan and Sara Foundation Tegan and Sara Foundation Convening, Jan. 2017 — photo credit: Robin Roemer. After spending more than half their lives in the music business, selling more than 1 million albums worldwide, twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin, who perform under their first names only, have launched…

Q&A: Robbie Robertson on Why He Kept Quiet for Years About His Heritage

Q&A: Robbie Robertson on Why He Kept Quiet for Years About His Heritage Robbie Robertson on the Six Nations Reserve with his first ax — photo courtney of R.R.Robbie Robertson’s memoir, Testimony, covers a short but transformative period in the 73-year-old’s life — from birth to 1976. The former guitarist and principal songwriter in The Band, now a…

Skate4Cancer's Rob Dyer's New Cause: The Dream Love Cure Centre

Skate4Cancer's Rob Dyer's New Cause: The Dream Love Cure Centre   The founder of Skate4Cancer has evolved his vision. Rob Dyer, the 27-year-old Newmarket, Ontario native who has skateboarded across the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and parts of Australia to raise awareness about cancer, has a new goal in mind: the Dream Love Cure Centre (http://…

Prostate Cancer As Serious An Issue As Breast Cancer In Women

Prostate Cancer As Serious An Issue As Breast Cancer In Women   Runners celebrate their achievement at the Father’s Day Walk/Run in HalifaxOn Sunday, June 19, more than a dozen cities across Canada will host the Father’s Day Walk/Run for Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC). This high-profile event is the second largest awareness-and-fundraiser surrounding the…

Children's Wish Foundation: Stars, Yes; Moon, No

Children's Wish Foundation: Stars, Yes; Moon, No   Ava attended the Vancouver Olympics as her wish  Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada can’t grant trips to the moon, but some 16,000 other wishes have been fulfilled in its 25-plus-year history. Its mandate is simple — kids aged three to 17 living in Canada who have been diagnosed with a life-…

"Freak" Paints His Gay Youth Story On Circus Tent For PhD

"Freak" Paints His Gay Youth Story On Circus Tent For PhD   Spencer J. HarrisonThe outside walls of the circus tent are painted with many images and words, none more appropriate to describe this man as “The Amazing Spencer J. Harrison in his titillating incomparable achievement.” His achievements are numerable. He has been an anti-homophobia…

The World Parrot Refuge in British Columbia

The World Parrot Refuge in British Columbia   Sometimes losing something that means everything can lead to a calling that means so much more. Such is the case for Wendy Huntbatch who in 1993 founded the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, British Columbia, after four of her parrots were stolen. She now cares for hundreds of these gorgeous tropical birds, all…

Revolutionary Fashion Line For Women In Wheelchairs

Revolutionary Fashion Line For Women In Wheelchairs   In 2010, unless your name is Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, it’s unlikely anyone is going to declare you a pioneer. Though she’s not quite as famous, Toronto-based fashion designer Izzy Camilleri is a comparable trailblazer and her innovations are impacting lives, albeit among a smaller constituency…