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Blankfest Quebec Concert Inspired By NYC Winter Clothing Drive
Blankfest Quebec Concert Inspired By NYC Winter Clothing Drive Rock fans raised more than 700 winter clothing items for Montreal’s homeless on Feb. 25, including 259 shirts, 90 sweaters and 107 pants. Everything collected at the third annual Blankfest Quebec went to Old Brewery Mission, established in 1890. “Montreal’s winter is really cold and harsh,” event organizer Jon Asher tells…
Mars Inc. Survey Says Canadians Not As Kind As We Think
Mars Inc. Survey Says Canadians Not As Kind As We Think Mars Canada Inc., a division of Mars Incorporated, is launching its second annual kindness campaign on March 1, asking Canadian to become “kindness ambassadors,” through its “Random Acts of Chocolate” initiative. Last year, a survey of Canadians conducted by Leger Marketing and commissioned by Mars…
Terry Eagan Fulfills Wife’s Dying Wish With Healing Gardens
Terry Eagan Fulfills Wife’s Dying Wish With Healing Gardens It isn't often that a husband gets to fulfill a wife's dying wish as passionately and successfully as Terry Eagan has over the past decade with the introduction of Mary Eagan Healing Gardens to hospitals in cities in Massachusetts and Ontario. Mary Eagan succumbed to leukemia in 1992 but, before she passed away, she told her loving…
Like Oasis, Beady Eye Continues Support of Teenage Cancer Trust
Like Oasis, Beady Eye Continues Support of Teenage Cancer Trust Beady Eye, the new band from former Oasis members, including frontman Liam Gallagher, is continuing its support of a charity that helps young people fight cancer. “We’re behind the Teenage Cancer Trust in the U.K.,” guitarist Andy Bell, who joined Oasis as the bassist in 1999, tells Samaritanmag. “All the band is,” adds Gallagher…
Thai Lady Rescues Abused, Neglected Elephants
Thai Lady Rescues Abused, Neglected Elephants Bruce Scott getting an elephant kissStanding next to five tonnes of fully grown Asian elephant is not an everyday experience. Neither is having a half pineapple deftly snatched from your hands by a six-foot-long grey probing trunk. But when you visit a certain pachyderm paradise hidden away in the Mae Taman…
Damien Hirst Painted Guitar Sells For $146,730 To Benefit War Child
Damien Hirst Painted Guitar Sells For $146,730 To Benefit War Child Photo credit:Prudence Cuming AssociatesA Canadian-made Carparelli guitar painted by famed British artist Damien Hirst sold for $146,730 (U.S.) at Christie's showroom in London, England, on February 17. All proceeds went to War Child U.K., an international organization which supports…
Filmmaker Investigates Canadian Asbestos Industry To Honour Late Father
Filmmaker Investigates Canadian Asbestos Industry To Honour Late Father Kathleen Mullen - Filming in ArizonaToronto-based filmmaker Kathleen Mullen knows a thing or two about bittersweet success. Her latest film, the gripping documentary Breathtaking, investigates the Canadian asbestos industry. Valued since pre-history and commercially mined since the…
Folk Artists Unite With Prints With A Purpose
Folk Artists Unite With Prints With A Purpose Fish Garden by Sandra Silberzweig 11x14 on stretched canvas or available as 8x10 inch quality charity printsWe often hear about musicians donating their talents for charity, so why not visual artists? United Folk Art Gallery represents a group of artists who sell their visual work for charity — “prints with…
Nicole Atkins Is Involved with Causes Near and Far
Nicole Atkins Is Involved with Causes Near and Far Nicole AtkinsNicole Atkins doesn’t have any sociopolitical songs on her forthcoming album, Mondo Amore — it’s all about her failed relationship — but on the side, when she’s not writing or performing, she gets involved with some causes close to her heart, one near; one far. At home, in her native New…
Abandoned Children Get Fabulous Faces And Shot At Normal Life
Abandoned Children Get Fabulous Faces And Shot At Normal Life Face to Face Missions in Saratov, Russia, benefit children born with cleft lip and palate and other facial deformities / Photo credit: courtesy of Face to Face“Your face is your calling card to the world,” begins Dr. Peter A. Adamson’s new book, Fabulous Faces, which focuses on the motivations…
WIN One of Four (4) "F CANCER" STERLING SILVER BRACELETS
WIN One of Four (4) "F CANCER" STERLING SILVER BRACELETS Samaritanmag.com is giving away four (4) F Cancer sterling silver bracelets, courtesy of Susan Fiedler and Soul Flower. To win, click here and enter your own Samaritan story in the comments section. Comment must be a minimum of 100 words and maximum of 500 words and be about an act of kindness by you or someone else, an…
Does Michael Franti Agree With Neil Young: That Music No Longer Has The Power To Change The World?
Does Michael Franti Agree With Neil Young: That Music No Longer Has The Power To Change The World? Photo credit: James MinchinIn February, 2008, Neil Young — the man who penned the protest song “Ohio” and 2006’s anti-Bush album Living with War — told a media conference in Germany, “I think that the time when music could change the world is past,”…