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Cadbury Bicycle Program In Ghana Expands To Help Teachers
Cadbury Bicycle Program In Ghana Expands To Help Teachers Cadbury-donated bikes make life easier for villagers in Ghana Few corporations have taken the old 'Charity begins at home' chestnut to heart quite like confectionary company Cadbury and their clever Bicycle Factory initiative, which gives bikes to middle school children in Ghana to help ease their…
(RED) Campaign Helps In Target AIDS-Free Generation By 2015
(RED) Campaign Helps In Target AIDS-Free Generation By 2015 (RED)Rush To Zero, a fundraising and awareness campaign to help in the ambitious goal to deliver an AIDS-free generation by 2015, began today, June 1, and will last 10 days. The virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV is part of the eight Millennium Development Goals that the…
HSBC Bank Of Canada Donates $500,000 For Kids To Bring Back The Wild!
HSBC Bank Of Canada Donates $500,000 For Kids To Bring Back The Wild! (L to R) Meghan Woodworth, wildlife biologist, Earth Rangers; Peter Kendall, executive director Earth Rangers; Todd Shute, senior VP, national head of large corporate, HSBC Bank Canada; John Lounds, president/CEO, Nature Conservancy of Canada; Andy Cockburn, wildlife biologist, Earth…
Donate Your Empty Beer Bottles, Help Union Reach $25 Million For Charity
Donate Your Empty Beer Bottles, Help Union Reach $25 Million For Charity Volunteers help with The Beer Store's bottle drive last year which to date has raised almost $25 million for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada - Photo credit: Frank Falconer Unions aren't just looking out for its members; in the case of United Food and Commercial Workers…
Cottage Dreams Seeks Cottage Lenders For Cancer Survivors
Cottage Dreams Seeks Cottage Lenders For Cancer Survivors A family enjoys a Huntsville, Ont. getaway via Cottage Dreams Cottage Dreams, an Ontario-based charity that lends private cottages to cancer survivors and their families, is now accepting applications for this year, June 1 to Dec. 31 (click here for last year's feature story). In 2011, 320…
Jeff Healey Park On Way To Be Retrofitted For Disabled Children
Jeff Healey Park On Way To Be Retrofitted For Disabled Children Jeff Healey's wife, Cristie, and his father Bud Healey, at the late musician's eponymous park A coalition of late guitarist Jeff Healey's friends, family and fellow musicians is raising money to make The Jeff Healey Park in Toronto more accessible for disabled children by adding specially…
Band Train Launches New Wine, Chocolate For Family House
Band Train Launches New Wine, Chocolate For Family House Members of the band Train with one of the families that use Family House(L to R) Debbie Zachareas (mom), Jimmy Stafford (guitarist), Zack Drumm (had neuro-blastoma as a baby), Pat Monahan (frontman), Daniella Drumm (sister), Scott Underwood (drums), Mike Drumm (dad) Soft-rock band Train launched…
Slash Makes Poignant Video For Adam Levine Song To Aid Homeless Youth
Slash Makes Poignant Video For Adam Levine Song To Aid Homeless Youth Slash in Toronto - photo credit: Luther MalloryAce guitarist Slash rounded up Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, Suddenly Susan), Lovely Bones' AJ Michalka, True Blood's Kristin Bauer and more, to act in a music video to raise aware about homeless youth in Los Angeles. "It's for the Los…
GGGarth And 54-40's Osborne Make Dumb Bet For Charity
GGGarth And 54-40's Osborne Make Dumb Bet For Charity (L to R) Producer Gggarth Richardson and 54.40 frontman Neil Osbourne A pair of Canadian music icons are putting their pride and wallets on the line all in support of an innovative charitable foundation called Music Heals. But this isn't just your average wager. Not even close. At stake is as…
Sam Roberts Hopes Role As Junos Sustainability Ambassador Is Temporary
Sam Roberts Hopes Role As Junos Sustainability Ambassador Is Temporary Pictured at centre: Sam Roberts of The Sam Roberts Band "If David Suzuki could hold a tune, I'm sure they would've asked him," Montreal rocker Sam Roberts quips in an interview with Samaritanmag about his recent appointment by the Canadian Academy of Recordings Arts & Sciences as…
Punk Legends Bad Religion Join Bill Maher, Eddie Izzard & Dozens More For Historic Secular Movement Rally
Punk Legends Bad Religion Join Bill Maher, Eddie Izzard & Dozens More For Historic Secular Movement Rally Some people are vehement about animal rights; others walk miles to raise money for breast cancer research or volunteer at their local homeless shelter. The causes people are passionate about are numerous and wide. This March 24, at the National…
The Office's Ed Helms Talks Tree People For This Year's Bluegrass Festival
The Office's Ed Helms Talks Tree People For This Year's Bluegrass Festival It's taken a while for Ed Helms' first love, music, to find its way onscreen. As Andy Bernard on television series The Office, he's played his instrument-of-choice - the banjo. And he supplied a musical moment in The Hangover: Part 2 playing a spoof of Billy Joel's "…
Sarah McLachlan VIP Symphony Ticket Sales To Go To Her Charity
Sarah McLachlan VIP Symphony Ticket Sales To Go To Her Charity For Sarah McLachlan's symphony tour this summer, the multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter has teamed with Tickets-for-Charity.com, which offers seats for various events "at the same or better price you'll find elsewhere -- and support great causes in the process." McLachlan's VIP…
Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact
Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact Simple Plan performs acoustically at MAA benefit lunch — Photo credit: Steven Campbell and Adrian Diaz. Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan, whose eponymous Foundation has made substantial donations over the past seven years to various child and youth related causes, will be honoured with the…
50 Years After Canada Discovers Stem Cells A Foundation Is Launched
50 Years After Canada Discovers Stem Cells A Foundation Is Launched Dr. James Till and the late Dr. Ernest McCulloch - the two Canadians who discovered adult stem cells Fifty years after Dr. James Till and the late Ernest McCulloch discovered stem cells at the Ontario Cancer Institute, the research division of the Princess Margaret Hospital, comes the…