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Family’s Spectacular Light Display Captures Season’s Giving Spirit

Family’s Spectacular Light Display Captures Season’s Giving Spirit There’s Christmas and then there’s Christmas as staged by the Singleton family of Campbellville, ON. For each of the last 17 years, Paul and Barb Singleton and their family have transformed their acre-wide rural property into a head-spinning, jaw-dropping display of lights, figures and…

Spectacular 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief Album For Sale

Spectacular 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief Album For Sale A 24-track album of last night’s marathon 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief  — broadcast live around the world from New York’s Madison Square Garden and featuring The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel and many more — can now be pre-…

Y&R Toronto Tea Raises $50K For Children With Severe Disabilities

Y&R Toronto Tea Raises $50K For Children With Severe Disabilities (L to R): Global TV's Leslie Roberts, musician Liona Boyd with Y&R's Kate Linder, Christian Le Blanc, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Jeff Branson, and Y&R hair and make-up artists Patti Denney and George Guzman. A High Tea at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York hotel featuring actors from…

Michael Des Barres Sings Of Skinny Santa

Michael Des Barres Sings Of Skinny Santa British rock singer-guitarist Michael Des Barres has written and recorded a fun song for the holiday season about Santa Claus on a health kick. Half the proceeds from all sales of "Rock N' Roll Santa" will go to Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization transforming children's lives by restoring and revitalizing…

Brutally Injured Kitten In Dire Need Of Help

Brutally Injured Kitten In Dire Need Of Help Angels' injuries are so severe, she has to drag her hind legs.All animal suffering stories are heartbreaking but even in that dark realm, the story of little Angel the cat is especially poignant. On Nov. 17, a woman spotted a cat carrier in the parking lot of a 24-hour McDonald’s location at Dundas and…

ATTENTION U.S. Bieber Fans: Want Him To Visit Your School? Get Cracking

ATTENTION U.S. Bieber Fans: Want Him To Visit Your School? Get Cracking Canadian pop artist Justin Bieber, whose official web site includes a charity movement section that runs a tally of the amount raised through his Believe Charity Drive — $1,192,2004 and counting — has issued a further challenge to his fans: the school that raises the most money for…

Man To Bake 80 Pies In A Week To Honour Grandma Kay

Man To Bake 80 Pies In A Week To Honour Grandma Kay Ready, set, go: Zack Ginies will be baking 80 pies in a week in honour of his late grandmother. Proceeds go to Covenant House.When it doesn’t kill you, grief is an unbeatable catalyst for good. Just ask Zack Ginies. The 29-year-old Toronto interactive developer lost his beloved grandmother Kay Andrews…

All Hail Prev Ale, New Charity Brew From Rapper

All Hail Prev Ale, New Charity Brew From Rapper Prevail from hip hop group Swollen MembersRapper Prevail from multi-platinum Canadian group Swollen Members now has his own beer, aptly named Prev Ale. Created by North Vancouver microbrewery Red Truck Beer Company, the brand new seasonal ale will be sold on tap at…

Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture

Simple Plan Book Another Charity Venture Simple Plan (photo credit: Sim Klugerman)There is not a lot pop-rock band Simple Plan does these days that doesn’t involve charity from its latest involvement in Kids Help Phone’s True Colors anti-bullying campaign to last week’s benefit luncheon for The Simple Plan Foundation. Now, the Montreal five-piece — and…

Prized Blue Rodeo Memorabilia Among Charity Auction Items

Prized Blue Rodeo Memorabilia Among Charity Auction Items Bob Wiseman played this Acetone keyboard for five years in Blue RodeoFor the first five years of Blue Rodeo’s 25-year recording career, original keyboardist Bob Wiseman’s mesmerizing madcap performing style was a focal point of the band onstage. Now, the Acetone organ he used during those years…

Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More

Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More Canadian denim retailer Bluenotes will be selling a $10 fundraising t-shirt for Kids Help Phone, as of Monday (Nov. 19). Emblazoned on the back are the words “Artists against loneliness, hate, bullying, anger, suffering” and the names of the Canadian musicians involved in the anti…

Help Give A "Warm Hug" To CAMH Patients This Holiday

Help Give A "Warm Hug" To CAMH Patients This Holiday Musician Kathleen Edwards poses with a Gift of Light. The Archway Music Group, made up of patients and staff of CAMH’s Archway outpatient clinic, is in the background.From pyjamas and slippers to a gift card to the coffee shop, this holiday season Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental…

How To Help Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

How To Help Victims Of Hurricane Sandy For many of the affected countries, Hurricane Sandy proved to be one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters when it touched down in late October. The death toll is currently at 157 — 88 in the United States, two in Canada and 67 in the Caribbean.The damage is extensive, ongoing and estimated to cost $55.4…

Halloween ‘Coins’ Raise Cash For Kids With Disabilities

Halloween ‘Coins’ Raise Cash For Kids With Disabilities Halloween has always been an elaborate exercise in give and take. This October 31, Toronto’s Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital, intends to level the playing field for those on both sides of the front door with a new…

Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical

Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical Children should not be carrying weapons and recruited as soldiers, this we know. Sadly, it is happening in various war-torn countries. As part of a larger campaign War Child Canada has launched, pro-bono partner John St. advertising agency in Toronto created a thought-provoking public service announcement (PSA) that…