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Dudes Expand Love Of Parties Into Charitable Good Time
Dudes Expand Love Of Parties Into Charitable Good Time Non-dudes party it up at Dudebox fundraisersDudebox, a party-planning fundraising idea started by six guys in Toronto after buying two cows, is throwing the last bash of a three-part series this Friday (Oct. 26) to raise money for youth-directed urban arts non-profit Manifesto Community Projects.…
Rare Scotch Good For Canadian Forces
Rare Scotch Good For Canadian Forces (L to R) Winning bidder Dave (last name anonymous) with Captain Wayne JohnstonA bottle of booze has netted tens of thousands of dollars for WoundedWarriors.ca, which helps Canadian Forces members who have been wounded or injured in their service to Canada since 1990. The 55-year-old bottle of Glenfiddich Janet Sheed…
Cineplex Offers Free Movies For Community Day Charity Event
Cineplex Offers Free Movies For Community Day Charity Event Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment continues its newly formed tradition of offering free movies on what it has declared National Community Day — this year, Oct. 20. Regular popcorn, drinks and select candy are for sale for $2. All proceeds go to the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Doors open at 8…
Singer Ali Milner Turns Light On Depression
Singer Ali Milner Turns Light On Depression Ali Milner, once signed to ex Canadian Idol judge Zack Werner’s record label and most recently a top 3 finalist on reality talent search Cover Me Canada, has written a song to benefit the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, which provides education and program support to help reduce depression-related teenage…
Band Auctions Painting By YouTube's Mysterious Drawing Hands
Band Auctions Painting By YouTube's Mysterious Drawing Hands Julian Taylor with the kids at Camp OochigeasFormer Staggered Crossing singer Julian Taylor recruited painter and YouTube mystery man The Drawing Hands to film the creation of a watercolour for the video to his song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The resulting painting is now up for auction to…
Our Lady Peace Helps Boxing Legend Knock Sense Into Kids
Our Lady Peace Helps Boxing Legend Knock Sense Into Kids (L to R): Duncan Coutts, Raine Maida, George Chuvalo, Eric Lawrence, Steve Mazur, Jeremy Taggart — (photo credit: Luther Mallory)Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace will be donating a lump sum to boxing legend and public speaker George Chuvalo’s charity, which allows him to speak to young people about…
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone Sloan, Grapes of Wrath, Doughboys, Jane Siberry, Change of Heart and the Pursuit of Happiness are just some of the acts whose rare or previously unreleased songs have been licensed for free to Have Not Been The Same: the CanRock Renaissance 1985-95, an album benefitting Kids Help Phone. All…
Breast Fest: Films, Panels, Comedy All About Breast Cancer
Breast Fest: Films, Panels, Comedy All About Breast Cancer Director Gulcin Gilbert's Pink Skies is just one of the films showing at Breast FestRare is the film festival that is at once cutting-edge topical and deeply entertaining. But Toronto’s Breast Fest – billed as the world’s first and only breast cancer film festival and poised to celebrate its fifth…
Why Peaches Supported Pussy Riot
Why Peaches Supported Pussy Riot Risqué musician and performance artist Peaches felt compelled to do something to support female Russian punk collective Pussy Riot's right to free speech and radical style of artistic expression because she both identified with them and realized her name could reach different ears globally. In March, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22; Maria Alyokhina, 24, and…
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry Feist accepts Polaris Music Prize cheque from Arcade Fire (right) and show hosts (left) — photo credit: Dustin RabinFeist doesn’t know how she will use the $30,000 she just received as winner of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, declaring Metals the year’s best Canadian album, but she is contemplating donating part or all of it. “…
Film Fest Brings Earth into Focus
Film Fest Brings Earth into Focus Agent Orange screens during Plant In FocusLike many major urban hubs, Toronto boasts a plethora of film festivals, from high-brow (TIFF, Hot Docs) to absurdly niche (Darryl’s Hard Liquor and Porn, Breast Fest). But few come with the real-world gravitas of Planet in Focus, Canada’s largest environmental film festival,…
Owl City Rocks The Red Kettle For The Salvation Army
Owl City Rocks The Red Kettle For The Salvation Army Owl City's Adam Young serving food at a Dallas Salvation Army post (photo courtesy of Salvation Army)For every date on his current North American tour, musician Owl City is rocking the ‘red kettle’ for the Salvation Army. The “Fireflies” and “Good Time” hitmaker, born Adam Young in Owatonna, Minnesota…
Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book
Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book Jared Leto took on a multi-national record company that sued his rock band 30 Seconds To Mars for $30 million, but the devastation that remains in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and affected 3 million is a task that requires the whole world to chip in to fix…
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School Nelly Furtado's Spirit Indestructible tank top also comes in white (photo credit: AR Solutions)Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado just released her new album, The Spirit Indestructible, a title inspired by a story in the book Me To We, but for the past few months Free The…
Aiding Animals Simple As A Walk In The Park
Aiding Animals Simple As A Walk In The Park Comedian Carla Collins with Dr. ZiraFew fundraisers conjure sweetness and seriousness quite like the Toronto Humane Society’s annual Paws in the Park event benefiting the donor-supported, no-kill shelter. So when this year’s host, Carla Collins, cracks that she wants to be “the Angelina Jolie dog of adoptions…