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Richard Simmons, Pointer Sisters Lead Disco Dance Fundraiser
Richard Simmons, Pointer Sisters Lead Disco Dance Fundraiser Fitness guru Richard Simmons and PMCF president/CEO Paul Alofs should be dancing, yeah, at 2012's Dance To Conquer Cancer — Disco Days And Boogie Nights.The fundraising teams have names like Dancing Divas, Disco Babes, Disco Divas, Dancing Queens, Frank’s Disco Bunnies and So We Thought We Could…
Toupee For A Day: A Hairpiece-Raising Idea
Toupee For A Day: A Hairpiece-Raising Idea It's not too early for these kids from River Valley School to wear toupees. A little over two years ago, Calgary-based throat cancer survivor Heather Dougall was sitting on her couch watching TV when she came up with what she says “was the silliest idea she ever had.” And the silliness has spread to Niagara, Ont…
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On Hoax Couture's Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle have helped raise more than $100,000 for The Stephen Lewis Foundation through their Dare To Wear Love galas and challenges.Bespoke fashion designers and philanthropists Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell of Hoax Couture are turning Valentine’s Day into Canada Day — and then…
Talk, Text, Share Today And Bell Canada Will Donate Money To Mental Health Causes
Talk, Text, Share Today And Bell Canada Will Donate Money To Mental Health Causes Olympic medalist and Bell Let's Talk spokesperson Clara Hughes talks to students at Langevin School, Feb. 5, 2013.Today is Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk Day, which asks Canadians to simply talk about mental heath issues in order to dispel the shame and embarrassment some might…
TV's Bachelors At Two Eligible Charity Events
TV's Bachelors At Two Eligible Charity Events The Bachelor Canada's Brad Smith and fiancée Biaka Kamber.Eligible magazine, a luxury-style online dating/lifestyle resource for urban men and women, has two big charity events lined up in Toronto this coming week hosted by The Bachelor TV show’s Brad Smith and fiancée Bianka Kamber, and Michael Stagliano…
Palestinian Man Walking 500 KM In Winter to Save Canadian
Palestinian Man Walking 500 KM In Winter to Save Canadian Khaled Khatib (L) is walking 500km for Anthony Socci, who is in need of a kidney donor — photo credit: Stey By Step.How far would you go for a virtual stranger? Palestinian visitor Khaled Khatib is willing to walk 500 kilometres in the blistering cold to help Toronto’s Anthony Socci find a matching…
Give CANFAR And Keshia A Kiss
Give CANFAR And Keshia A Kiss CANFAR youth ambassador Keshia Chanté puckers up for the new Kisses 4 CANFAR campaign.For 19 years The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) has promoted its Have A Heart program at 2500 schools across Canada. Students sell heart-o-grams to help raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS. This month, for the 20th year…
RBC Asks You To Drop Off Pennies For Free The Children Drive
RBC Asks You To Drop Off Pennies For Free The Children Drive Students from Oakville’s Glenburnie School show off their penny drive bags at an assembly Monday at Toronto’s St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School — photo credit: Kim Hughes. The humble penny's days as useable currency may be over by decree of Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, but thanks to…
Dell's Mobile Computer Lab Brings Technology To Underprivileged Kids
Dell's Mobile Computer Lab Brings Technology To Underprivileged Kids (L to R): Paul Cooper (Dell), Pam Jolliffe (BGCC) and the kids of St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club — photo credit: Alina SotulaDell Canada has donated its first mobile tech unit to St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club in Toronto to make new technology accessible to clubs that don’t have…
Billy Talent, Kardinal, Lights, Harmer Contrast Their Childhood With War Kids
Billy Talent, Kardinal, Lights, Harmer Contrast Their Childhood With War Kids Billy Talent, Kardinal Offishall, Sarah Harmer, Lights and Kay are among the Canadian musicians who reflected on their own childhood for a series of online video clips, as part of War Child Canada’s powerful advertising campaign, entitled JAM. So far the Billy Talent, Kardinal and Harmer videos have been released.…
Build-A-Bear Workshop On Prowl For Kid Philanthropists
Build-A-Bear Workshop On Prowl For Kid Philanthropists 2011 Huggable Hero Cassidy Megan McCarthy from Halifax, NS.Over the past nine years, The Build-A-Bear Workshop Huggable Heroes program has found some impressive kids. The 400-store chain, which sells make-your-own stuffed animals, holds an annual search for young people, ages 8 to 18, who are trying…
Historic $50 Million Gift To Recruit Superstars Of Cancer Research
Historic $50 Million Gift To Recruit Superstars Of Cancer Research (L to R): Paul Alofs (president & CEO, The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation), Dr. Robert Bell (president & CEO, University Health Network), Emmanuelle Gattuso (donor, along with husband Allan Slaight and the Slaight family), Geoffrey Ogram (cancer patient), Dr. Benjamin Neel (…
Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls
Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls (L to R): Joshua Stern, Daley Douglas, Joye Dunkley, Nicole Stiletto and Neddy Nyce outside Toronto's Salvation Army Maxwell Meighen Center during the Kool Kicks shoe drive initiative.For most people, January is a time of resolutions though few survive past the end of the month. But there is one thing folks…
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner Two members of Toronto Peel Police with Toronto Maple Leafs president/general manager Brian Burke (2nd from left) and head coach Randy Carlyle (far right).While the National Hockey League lockout continues, members of the Toronto Maple Leafs camp, including president and general…
Reindeer Art Installation Beats A Giant Blow-up Santa
Reindeer Art Installation Beats A Giant Blow-up Santa These acrylic reindeer are now grazing throughout Westfield Century City and Century Mall until they go to their new owners' homes after January 1.Forget a blow-up Santa or snowman on your lawn. How about a massive, colourful reindeer? The unique art installation of oversized acrylic reindeer in Los…