Education
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…
Deloitte Rocks: Accountants Not So Stuffy After All
Deloitte Rocks: Accountants Not So Stuffy After All Singer Allesandra Bresani and singer-songwriter Sean Haggerty at Noble Street StudiosWho says accountants can't rock 'n’ roll? The profession is often stereotyped as being quintessentially dull and boring, but that certainly wasn't in evidence at Noble Street Studios recently. The highly-regarded and…
Cody Simpson A Dork, Weird, Nerd?
Cody Simpson A Dork, Weird, Nerd? Fans of Australian singer Cody Simpson would never call him a dork, weird, nerd, spoiled or odd, but he proudly wears a hoodie emblazoned with those adjectives. The 15-year-old, who is managed by Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber’s manager, and is currently on tour in North America until September 21, met the founder of the…
Modern Family Actor Helps High-Poverty School
Modern Family Actor Helps High-Poverty School Rico Rodriguez spoke to Samaritanmag.com about his Foundation when he was in Toronto for the MMVAs in June (Photo credit: courtesy of MuchMusic)Modern Family’s Rico Rodriguez is a kid with a big heart and compassion for others. At just 14, the teen actor who plays Manny Delgado on the hit television comedy…
Are Arts Grants Failing Artists? CUE's Radical Fix
Are Arts Grants Failing Artists? CUE's Radical Fix Tumbleweed InstrumentsThe grating drill of jackhammers are threatening to overtake Samaritanmag’s conversation with Toronto-based writer and arts activist Jason Samilski, but the reason for the tools’ raucous hum is kind of fitting to the discussion at hand. Samilski is talking about CUE, the…
Geddy Lee: The Grapes Of Rush
Geddy Lee: The Grapes Of Rush Alex Lifeson (far left) and Geddy Lee (right) sorting grapes on Grapes Under Pressure Tour at Grimsby's Tawse Winery (Photo credit: John Gundy)When he's not touring the world or recording albums that continue to influence generations of younger musicians, Rush singer and bassist Geddy Lee supports a grape cause. A wine-…
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…
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…
Two Toronto School Teachers Take On A Village
Two Toronto School Teachers Take On A Village Dekpor Basic School's kindergarten class can have up to 170 students attending each day. The classes are underneath a giant tree and it takes half an hour for the teacher, Patience, to take attendance. Dekpor is a village in southeast Ghana that is so tiny, most maps of the country don't even include it.…
Canadian Battling Systemic Murder, Mutilation Of African Albinos
Canadian Battling Systemic Murder, Mutilation Of African Albinos Under The Same Sun founder Peter Ash and children with albinism enrolled in the UTSS Education Scholarship FundPhoto credit: UTTS It is no exaggeration to say that being born "albino" in the East African nation of Tanzania is one of the unluckiest fates life can hand you. It's also fair to…
Love And Death's Brian Head Welch Joins Mocha Club
Love And Death's Brian Head Welch Joins Mocha Club Love And Death promo shot: Brian Guitarist-singer Brian "Head" Welch, who now fronts Love And Death, co-founded Californian nu metal band Korn in 1993, but the hard partying lifestyle left him addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs and alcohol. After getting clean and sober, he quit the multi-…
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…
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 "…
Hanson Get Action, Inspire Worldwide MMMovement
Hanson Get Action, Inspire Worldwide MMMovement Zac Hanson (in red) joins Take The Walk in the band's hometown of Tulsa — photo credit: Jeremy Charles Hanson, the band of brothers best known for their 1997 smash hit, "MMMbop," have had a dedicated fan-base since those teen idol days and as they continue to sell out shows around the world are inspiring…
In Lieu of Flowers Or Gifts, Donate To Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
In Lieu of Flowers Or Gifts, Donate To Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts Fans of the late Whitney Houston can honour her memory by donating to the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, the Houston family requested in a message on the late singer’s official web site. Houston — who died in a bathtub at the…