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Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa

Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa Tom Cochrane in Kenya, 2006.Noted Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane has been a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but one of his most poignant experiences occurred when he spent two-and-a-half weeks traveling through Africa on behalf of World Vision in 1989 that…

411 TV Aims To Empower 7000 Female Students

411 TV Aims To Empower 7000 Female Students  A youth initiative to empower girls is expanding its scope with an in-school live “television” presentation entitled 411 TV. The 411 Initiative For Change organization, sometimes simply called 411, will be touring the program in 20 Ontario schools from March 21 to April 1 and is expect to reach 7000 female students. Since launching in 1999, 411 has…

Musicians Vs. Media In NXNE Charity Soccer Match

Musicians Vs. Media In NXNE Charity Soccer Match Bedouin Soundclash's Eon Sinclair and CARAS's Jane Tattersall tussle for the ball with Universal Music Canada's Tyson Parker (left), Designer Guys' Anwar Mukhayesh and Barenaked Ladies' Jim Creegan (far right) following the playMembers of Broken Social Scene, Great Big Sea and Bedouin Soundclash are among…

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…