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Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone
Simple Plan Designs Limited Edition Tees For Kids Help Phone Earlier this year, Simple Plan sold a limited-edition T-Shirt benefitting The Red Cross’ Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts, and as 2011 draws to a close, the pop-rock band has co-designed another T-shirt with clothing retailer Bluenotes with the proceeds going to Kids Help Phone.…
Blank-Fest Expands To Calgary, Releases Free Download Album
Blank-Fest Expands To Calgary, Releases Free Download Album The band Stampede Six help gather winter items at Calgary's Blank-fest“It’s about the homeless. Nothing more, nothing less.” That, in a nutshell, is the slogan and modus operandi behind Blank-Fest, a growing network of independent music festivals held in Canada, the U.S. and England designed to…
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors If a picture is worth a thousand words, Toronto's Andrew MacNaughtan has unleashed an important monologue on behalf of World Vision with his brand new coffee table book, Grace: Africa in Photographs. The result of a three-week sojourn to Kenya and Tanzania taken by…
TOMS Creates Movember Shoes Feat. Little White 'Stache
TOMS Creates Movember Shoes Feat. Little White 'Stache The Classics are $70 and the Botas are $105 and are both available for purchase on www.TOMS.ca. Long after you’ve shaved off that moustache you're growing this month for Movember to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer, you could have a pair of shoes that will not only be a reminder of…
Former Homeless Youth Lead Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk
Former Homeless Youth Lead Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk Pumping up the participants of last year's Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk event, Dundas Square, Toronto For the first time, a group of current and former Covenant House residents will be joining the 4th annual Covenant House Step Up for Street Kids 5K walk. The…
Auctioned Ozzy, Swift, Nickelback, Garth, Seger Goodies To Help Build Wells
Auctioned Ozzy, Swift, Nickelback, Garth, Seger Goodies To Help Build Wells Treane Peake in Cameroon, Africa with her Obakki Foundation From NASCAR drivers to NHL players and tons of musicians, Vancouver fashion designer and philanthropist Treana Peake has been able to gather hundreds of signed items to auction off for her Obakki Foundation, which raises…
Cineplex Offers Free Movie & $2 Snack Day For Charity
Cineplex Offers Free Movie & $2 Snack Day For Charity A day out at the movies ain’t cheap these days, but this Saturday Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment is presenting an event that extends good will to everyone — and it’s not even Christmas yet. On October 22, Cineplex is offering free family-friendly movies and $2 regular popcorn, drinks and select…
Inaugural Road Hockey Tourney Raises $2.4 Million To Fight Cancer
Inaugural Road Hockey Tourney Raises $2.4 Million To Fight Cancer They shot, and they scored! Over 1500 athletes — some, weathered NHL pros and others, regular Joes — laced up at Toronto's Ontario Place on October 1 for the first annual Road Hockey To Conquer Cancer and raised over $2.4 million in the process. Celebrity captains included ex-NHLers Jeremy Roenick, Johnny Bower, Scotty Bowman,…
The Amy Winehouse Foundation Almost Up And Running
The Amy Winehouse Foundation Almost Up And Running Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett taken from theThe Amy Winehouse Foundation, which will benefit various youth and children’s projects and charities throughout the world, is now active, but until it is fully up and running, Comic Relief in the U.K. and America Gives Back in the U.S. have set up The Amy…
Top Texan Conference Brand Launches SXSW ECO
Top Texan Conference Brand Launches SXSW ECO Austin, Texas’ South By Southwest (SXSW) is one of the top conference brands in the world with its long-running SXSW Music, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive, and this October it will debut SXSW Eco. Taking place at the downtown Hilton Austin, from Oct. 4 to 6, this new event is designed to bring together…
Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival Follows TIFF Hoopla
Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival Follows TIFF Hoopla a still from Revenge of the Electric Car, the opening night film at Planet In FocusA month after the hoopla of the Toronto International Film Festival has subsided, another Toronto film festival begins, this one entirely focused on films with an environmental angle. Kicking off with the…
Evanescence's Amy Lee Says "Don't Freak Out" Over Epileptic Seizure
Evanescence's Amy Lee Says "Don't Freak Out" Over Epileptic Seizure The specific Out of the Shadows campaign is over, but Evanescence singer-pianist Amy Lee won’t ever stop bringing to light the realities of epilepsy. Her brother, Robby, had his first seizure when he was 8-years-old. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, Epilepsy is…
Jack Layton Leaves Inspiring Letter: Addresses Cancer Victims and Young Canadians
Jack Layton Leaves Inspiring Letter: Addresses Cancer Victims and Young Canadians New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton lost his battle with cancer today, but in a final letter to Canadians dated August 20, the 61-year-old urged others diagnosed with the deadly disease to “please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had…
Canadian Aid Helps Sierra Leone Youth Charity Start Label, Release Album
Canadian Aid Helps Sierra Leone Youth Charity Start Label, Release Album Artists United For Children and Youth Development (AUCAYD) in war-torn Sierra Leone has formed its own label, AUCAYD Records, and released its debut album, Give Some Little Love, available for purchase via MapleMusic, iTunes Canada, iTunes US and Amazon. From 1991 to 2002, a civil…
The Remix Project's At-Risk Youth Get Own Record Label Distributed By EMI
The Remix Project's At-Risk Youth Get Own Record Label Distributed By EMI Charitable creative arts training centre The Remix Project, open to youth from disadvantaged backgrounds in Toronto, has started a record label, Honest Music, and signed a deal with EMI Music Canada for pressing, distribution, marketing and mentorship. While the label plans…