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Canadians Send Aid For East Africa's Worst Drought In 50 Years
Canadians Send Aid For East Africa's Worst Drought In 50 Years Four palettes and 1.15 million tables and sachets were deployed to Kenya yesterday (July 28), the latest salvo to fight the drought in Eastern Africa. Provided by GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response Team in partnership with Toronto’s Somalian community, the latest emergency relief effort will provide more than 11.5 million litres of…
Joseph Arthur, Mother Mother, The Midway State Busking For Change At Osheaga
Joseph Arthur, Mother Mother, The Midway State Busking For Change At Osheaga Rock band Our Lady Peace unplugs for War Child's Busking For ChangeNo word on if Eminem will hit the streets to rhyme, but musicians Joseph Arthur, Mother Mother, The Midway State, Sweet Thing, Hey Rosetta! and more have all signed on to busk for change at Montreal’s Osheaga…
Honey Jam All-Female Singing Showcase Donates To Women's Charities For 16 Years
Honey Jam All-Female Singing Showcase Donates To Women's Charities For 16 Years Ebonnie Rowe (L) with Aisha Wickham ThomasPhem Phat Entertainment Group’s Ebonnie Rowe has managed to keep Toronto’s Honey Jam, the multi-genre female singing showcase at which Nelly Furtado was discovered, alive for 16 years. No matter how difficult that has been, she…
Avril Lavigne Designs And Sells "Abbey Dawn Hearts Japan" Charity T-Shirts
Avril Lavigne Designs And Sells "Abbey Dawn Hearts Japan" Charity T-Shirts Avril Lavigne has designed a T-shirt with heart. The Canadian pop singer, who has her own clothing line called Abbey Dawn, created the shirt to help raise money for those affected by the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan in March.…
15-Year-Old Alice Pyne's Bucket List Gets Attention From CNN, Katy Perry, And MPs
15-Year-Old Alice Pyne's Bucket List Gets Attention From CNN, Katy Perry, And MPs A 15-year-old British girl with terminal cancer has inspired the Internet and Twitter community to help her fulfill her bucket list. Alice Pyne has Hodgkin's lymphoma that has spread throughout her body and her bravery, enthusiasm, commitment and compassion shines…
Paddle The River And Plant A Tree At A Day Of A 1000 Canoes
Paddle The River And Plant A Tree At A Day Of A 1000 Canoes Cayuga: A Day Of A 1000 Canoes starting portIt could also be called Paddle and Plant. For the inaugural A Day of 1000 Canoes, a pay-to-register voyage down Ontario’s Grand River in Haldimand County on June 25, the Ministry of Natural Resources will donate trees for participants to plant between…
Billy Talent Drummer Launches Online Support Site For Youth Affected By MS
Billy Talent Drummer Launches Online Support Site For Youth Affected By MS Billy Talent drummer Aaron Solowoniuk is in a multi-platinum Canadian rock band, headlining arenas across the country and touring all over the world, but he has just realized another dream — the launch of www.someonelikeme.ca, a youth-based blogging website for people affected by…
Coldplay's "Fix You" Re-Cut In Asia By Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns & More
Coldplay's "Fix You" Re-Cut In Asia By Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns & More Canada's These Kids Wear Crowns in a Singapore's Ocean Butterflies Studio record their part of Coldplay's More than 40 artists from all over the world, including Canada’s Simple Plan, These Kids Wear Crowns and Saidah Baba Talibah, cut a charity single of…
Ten Budding Entrepreneurs Selected In Socially-Minded Business Contest
Ten Budding Entrepreneurs Selected In Socially-Minded Business Contest Project Wildfire workshop with youth contestantsAn online calculator that helps companies reduce their carbon footprint. A cleaning business run entirely by the autistic community. A tutoring website that pays youths to do their homework. These are just a few of the captivating…
Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer Fundraiser Expands Across Canada
Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer Fundraiser Expands Across Canada As hockey fans await the Stanley Cup’s possible arrival north of the border in 2011, Canadians across the country have another reason to cheer. The two largest national cancer charities announced on June 3 that they would be teaming up to expand the popular Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer…
Moms Host Golf Tournament To Give Special Needs Children Summer Camp Experience
Moms Host Golf Tournament To Give Special Needs Children Summer Camp Experience Nathan PeddieGoing to summer camp is one of the definitive experiences for Canadian children. But when Dorothy Peddie and Ingrid Anderson, two working moms from the Greater Toronto Area, discovered there was an additional fee to send their sons with Down syndrome to summer…
U2's Bono Celebrates Amnesty International's 50th Birthday With Crowd of 50,000
U2's Bono Celebrates Amnesty International's 50th Birthday With Crowd of 50,000 U2 frontman Bono alerted a crowd of 50,000 at Winnipeg’s Canada Inn Stadium on Sunday evening, May 29, that “tonight is Amnesty International’s 50th birthday.” The date is slightly off, but the human rights organization was founded in London, England 50 years ago,…
Sundae Funday! A Fun Way To Raise Money For Canada's Aboriginal Children
Sundae Funday! A Fun Way To Raise Money For Canada's Aboriginal Children It’s ice cream time! One is high in calories; one is zero. Take your pick. Both will raise money for Save The Children Canada. Appliance brand Frigidaire has pledged to donate a maximum of $25,000 via its Sundae Funday initiative. It’s part of the company’s commitment to…
Canadian Hospital Foundation Lotteries
Canadian Hospital Foundation Lotteries They’ve won the houses of their dreams. After purchasing tickets for the May 12th Princess Margaret Home Lottery, more than a dozen people are sporting ear-to-ear grins after winning a combined $9.094 million in real estate, including a $3.99 million, 7062 sq. ft show home in Thornhill, Ontario and a $654,000…
'Reggae Against Landmines' Album To Benefit Non-Profit Landmine Clearance Organization
'Reggae Against Landmines' Album To Benefit Non-Profit Landmine Clearance Organization A Toronto-based reggae record label is joining such musical activists as Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Cockburn in their attempts to transform Earth into a landmine–free planet. Turning its attention towards atrocities in Africa, Ohm Grown Records…