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Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts
Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts Metric's Emily Haines sits in a Kiehl's store to discuss the importance of music and MusiCounts.There’s still time to step up and help Metric singer Emily Haines raise money for Canadian charity MusiCounts through her partnership with Kiehl’s. For every product sold online at kiehls.ca,…
Neil Peart, Nelly Furtado, Tom Cochrane Shock Selfless Canadians
Neil Peart, Nelly Furtado, Tom Cochrane Shock Selfless Canadians Karl Sloman (on right) meets his hero, Rush's Neil Peart, as part of Global TV's Walk The Walk series, surprising Canadians making a difference.A mix of Canadian Walk of Fame inductees surprised some selfless Canadians for a new six-part television series, currently airing on Global. In…
Toronto Partnering with Cat Rescue Groups to Combat Feral Cat Explosion
Toronto Partnering with Cat Rescue Groups to Combat Feral Cat Explosion Kittens are among Toronto's huge feral cat population.To the delight of multiple volunteer cat rescue and advocacy groups, the City of Toronto, once regarded as hostile on the issue of homeless cats, has declared Oct. 16 to 22 Feral Cat Awareness Week to draw attention to the plight…
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company Hops To Their Own Oktoberfest For Charity
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company Hops To Their Own Oktoberfest For Charity Getting their green on at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company's annual Oktoberfest charity beer bash.Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company will split $75,000 raised from its recent signature Oktoberfest charity event between The Canadian Canoe Foundation, United Way Ottawa, Kiva,…
Cool iPod Drive From Music Heals Gets Boost By Singer Lydia Hol
Cool iPod Drive From Music Heals Gets Boost By Singer Lydia Hol BC singer-songwriter Lydia Hol involved in cool iPod drive.Emerging West Coast singer-songwriter Lydia Hol wants your iPod and MP3 players for music therapy. She is asking concert-goers and fans to donate the gently used items to Music Heals’ cool iPod Pharmacy program, which issues the…
Zombie Walk 2013 Spurs Dawn of the Charitable Dead Leading Up To Halloween
Zombie Walk 2013 Spurs Dawn of the Charitable Dead Leading Up To Halloween Hamilton zombies — photo credit: Aaron Allen.A decade ago, six Torontonians roamed the streets dressed as zombies, complete with bloody makeup, sunken eyes and tattered clothing. It was the world’s first public Zombie Walk. Vancouver, San Francisco, New York and Ottawa soon had…
Wheelchair-Bound Superheroes Descend Tall Buildings For Easter Seals
Wheelchair-Bound Superheroes Descend Tall Buildings For Easter Seals Michelle Amerie participates in Drop Zone to raise money for Easter Seals.Two summers ago, Michelle Amerie took a deep breath and began rappelling down all 32 storeys of the Rio Can building in downtown Toronto to benefit Easter Seals. The kicker: She did it in a wheelchair, albeit one…
Country Junkie Singer Gord Bamford Writes Big Cheques For Sick Kids
Country Junkie Singer Gord Bamford Writes Big Cheques For Sick Kids L to R: Gord Bamford; Dianne Tuterra, Child Life team leader; and Jan Guerin, senior manager, donor relations, at the cheque presentation.Gord Bamford’s forthcoming album is called Country Junkie, but the acclaimed country singer-songwriter is a charitable junkie as well. He may project…
Tom Cochrane Honours His Dad By Participating In Parkinson's Fundraiser
Tom Cochrane Honours His Dad By Participating In Parkinson's Fundraiser Tom CochraneMusician Tom Cochrane lost his father to Parkinson’s disease and calls it “a cause near and dear to my heart.” The Canadian Hall of Fame rocker is the headline act and main attraction at the Shake It Up for Parkinson's benefit concert, this Friday (Sept. 6) at…
Bruce Cockburn Named 2014 Recipient of The Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award
Bruce Cockburn Named 2014 Recipient of The Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award Bruce Cockburn, who has written songs and campaigned about everything from banning landmines to protecting the rain forests, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award “in recognition of his social activism and benevolent support of…
Ian Thomas Band Reunited After 33 Years To Help Ailing Bandmate
Ian Thomas Band Reunited After 33 Years To Help Ailing Bandmate The Ian Thomas Band reunited after 33 years for a benefit concert for former bandmate, David Cooper, who has serious cardiopulmonary disease. (L to R): Stephen Hogg (bass), Mark Willms (keys), David Cooper (guitar), Ian Thomas (guitar-vocals), Leo Culliton (soundman), Mike Oberle (drums),…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
Help Stop Barbaric Bear Bile Practice That Ends Up In Your Wine, Toothpaste, Shampoo
Help Stop Barbaric Bear Bile Practice That Ends Up In Your Wine, Toothpaste, Shampoo World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is ramping up its Bear Bile campaign, bringing awareness to the barbaric industry in East and South East Asia where thousands of bears are being held captive in small cages so that bile can be extracted from their gall…
Michelle Obama Behind Hip Hop Album
Michelle Obama Behind Hip Hop Album Screenshot of First Lady Michelle Obama in the video forMichelle Obama isn’t rapping or singing, but the First Lady does appear and talk in the video for “Everybody,” featuring Jordin Sparks, Doug E Fresh, Dr. Oz, Ryan Beatty, Artie Green and The Hip Hop Doc. The song, available for free download, is from an album…
Amos Garrett: 71-Year-Old Musician Gets Outpouring of Help After Flood
Amos Garrett: 71-Year-Old Musician Gets Outpouring of Help After Flood The music community is coming to the aid of 71-year-old revered guitarist Amos Garrett who lost everything when his house filled with seven feet of water during the Alberta floods in June. Repairs are expected to reach six figures. “Amos' house is in one of the worst hit areas of…