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Charitable Deal Site GreedyGiver.com Expands to Include Crowdfunding

Charitable Deal Site GreedyGiver.com Expands to Include Crowdfunding GreedyGiver.com founder Apostolos Sigalas chats with people for his Give A Buck campaign. The deal site handed out 100 loonies for Giving Tuesday, 2013.Almost as soon as he launched his Groupon-like daily deal site GreedyGiver.com last spring, altruistic Toronto businessman Apostolos…

Date of Will Ferrell RHCP Chad Smith $300k Drum Battle Still TBA

Date of Will Ferrell RHCP Chad Smith $300k Drum Battle Still TBA Will Ferrell — photo credit: video screen shot.A date has still not been set for the Will Ferrell-Chad Smith battle, but in the name of charity the Old School/Anchorman star not only conceded that he is not moonlighting as the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, but the two will come face to face…

Energy Room Named After Noted Canadian Magazine Editor Linda Lewis

Energy Room Named After Noted Canadian Magazine Editor Linda Lewis Weighing less than 100 lbs and battling Leukemia, Linda Lewis walks the runway at the 2013 Well Dressed for Spring fundraising event for Wellspring Cancer Support Network.A room offering free treatments to cancer patients will be named after noted editor Linda Lewis at Toronto’s Wellspring…

U.S. Author James Patterson’s Novel Way of Buoying Indie Book Stores

U.S. Author James Patterson’s Novel Way of Buoying Indie Book Stores American author James Patterson has pledged $1 million of his own money to aid indie book stores — photo credit: David Burnett.Can blockbuster American novelist James Patterson save, or at least buoy, independent book stores? Can anyone, given that that business, already operating on…

3-Year-Old Emily And Her Dolly Cut Hair For Kids With Cancer

3-Year-Old Emily And Her Dolly Cut Hair For Kids With Cancer Emily James, 3, and her Dolly, after their haircuts by Uncle Matthew.If Dolly did it, she would too. Three-year-old Emily James thought nothing of cutting her long locks once she learned that some children get cancer and will lose their hair. Her 7” ponytail was sent to 360 Hair in Langley, BC,…

Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event

Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event A dapper and cancer free Scott Thompson struts down the runway at Holt Renfrew's Well Dressed For Spring, benefitting Wellspring. The actor-comedian was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkins gastric lymphoma in 2009.Hannibal/Kids In The Hall actor-comedian Scott Thompson and other cancer…

Pharrell Williams Infamous Mountain Hat Racks Up Bids For His Charity

Pharrell Williams Infamous Mountain Hat Racks Up Bids For His Charity Pharrell Williams and his hat — photo credit: courtesy of eBay.Pharrell Williams' infamous “Mountain” hat, the one by designer Vivienne Westwood that looks like an oversized elongated Canadian Mountie Stetson, is up to 80 bids on eBay, amounting to $15,100 (US) to date. Three days…

Kids Help Phone Launches Free Map-Based App Tool With 11,000 Resources

Kids Help Phone Launches Free Map-Based App Tool With 11,000 Resources Canada’s youth support charity Kids Help Phone has just launched its newest free tool, which offers young people a discreet way to find help for depression, bullying, abuse, and other issues. Resources Around Me is a map-based guide that shows them where they can go in their community…

Toronto Music Industry Gives Olympic Sport Ping Pong A Spin

Toronto Music Industry Gives Olympic Sport Ping Pong A Spin 2013 Bowling tournament first-place winners, MapleMusic (L to R): Mark Fucella, Bryan Columbus, Chris Cowley, Brant Hunt, and Jeff Hayden. The event, organized by The Feldman Agency, raised $25,000 for MusiCounts.The Winter Olympics 2014 ends the day before members of the Toronto music industry…

Pope Francis' Harley-Davidson Motorcycle and Jacket Fetches $450,000

Pope Francis' Harley-Davidson Motorcycle and Jacket Fetches $450,000 Photo: ©L’Osservatore RomanoOne of the Pope’s mobiles and rock ‘n’ roll robes was auditioned off for charity today, his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and leather jacket, raising close to a half-million dollars for the renovation of the Caritas Roma’s Don Luigi di Liegro hostel and soup…

Kisses 4 CANFAR Makes February More Than Lip Service To Valentine's Day

Kisses 4 CANFAR Makes February More Than Lip Service To Valentine's Day Some University of Toronto students get in the spirit of Kisses 4 CANFAR.Valentine’s Day might be approaching on Feb. 14, but the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) is making the first half of February all about red lips and kisses. The AIDS campaign, appropriately…

Singer Justin Hines Named To Order of Ontario For His Charity Work

Singer Justin Hines Named To Order of Ontario For His Charity Work Singer Justin Hines looking dapper just before being named to the Order of Ontario.Singer-songwriter Justin Hines should get a medal for bravery; he’s rappelled down a skyscraper for charity. But he just received a medal equally as cool. He was named to The Order of Ontario, the Canadian…

Bell Let’s Talk 2014 Raises Awareness of Mental Health Issues

Bell Let’s Talk 2014 Raises Awareness of Mental Health Issues Olympian Clara Hughes will embark on “Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk” on March 14.Mental health issues affect a large segment of the Canadian population and Bell Media is bringing them to people’s attention and raising money to ease those burdened by them through its annual Bell Let’s…

Singer Alyssa Reid Thinking of Ways To Help 9-Year-Old with Leukemia

Singer Alyssa Reid Thinking of Ways To Help 9-Year-Old with Leukemia Singer Alyssa Reid sports a Because I Am A Girl t-shirt.Toronto singer Alyssa Reid, whose new single “Satisfaction Guaranteed” is currently in the top 10 at Canadian pop radio, has lent her name to Kids Help Phone and is an ambassador for Because I Am A Girl, but since her 17-year-old…