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TV's Bachelors At Two Eligible Charity Events
TV's Bachelors At Two Eligible Charity Events The Bachelor Canada's Brad Smith and fiancée Biaka Kamber.Eligible magazine, a luxury-style online dating/lifestyle resource for urban men and women, has two big charity events lined up in Toronto this coming week hosted by The Bachelor TV show’s Brad Smith and fiancée Bianka Kamber, and Michael Stagliano…
RBC Asks You To Drop Off Pennies For Free The Children Drive
RBC Asks You To Drop Off Pennies For Free The Children Drive Students from Oakville’s Glenburnie School show off their penny drive bags at an assembly Monday at Toronto’s St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School — photo credit: Kim Hughes. The humble penny's days as useable currency may be over by decree of Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, but thanks to…
Dell's Mobile Computer Lab Brings Technology To Underprivileged Kids
Dell's Mobile Computer Lab Brings Technology To Underprivileged Kids (L to R): Paul Cooper (Dell), Pam Jolliffe (BGCC) and the kids of St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club — photo credit: Alina SotulaDell Canada has donated its first mobile tech unit to St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club in Toronto to make new technology accessible to clubs that don’t have…
Pink Cart Sparks Dialogue, Raises Cash for Breast Cancer
Pink Cart Sparks Dialogue, Raises Cash for Breast Cancer Cascade Engineering CEO Fred Keller was fully behind Jo-Anne Perkins' idea to create Pink Cart to benefit the American Cancer Society.They may be functional but garbage bins are unsightly. But in changing the colour to pink, Michigan-based Canadian Jo-Anne Perkins has made carrying your trash to the…
Build-A-Bear Workshop On Prowl For Kid Philanthropists
Build-A-Bear Workshop On Prowl For Kid Philanthropists 2011 Huggable Hero Cassidy Megan McCarthy from Halifax, NS.Over the past nine years, The Build-A-Bear Workshop Huggable Heroes program has found some impressive kids. The 400-store chain, which sells make-your-own stuffed animals, holds an annual search for young people, ages 8 to 18, who are trying…
Mother's Day, Easter: Mental Health Patients To Receive Gifts Year-Round
Mother's Day, Easter: Mental Health Patients To Receive Gifts Year-Round Musician Kathleen Edwards performed at the Gifts of Lights 2012 Xmas campaign launch.The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will soon launch a much needed, highly appreciated year-round gift-giving program through Gifts of Light. Unlike other hospitals in the…
Air Canada Flight Attendants Shoot Angelic Calendar
Air Canada Flight Attendants Shoot Angelic Calendar Air Canada flight attendant Heather depicts patience on the cover of Sky Angels: The Virtues 2013 calendar. She's also the model for May.Air Canada flight attendant Shantih Accardi wanted to produce a charity calendar with her fellow co-workers that was attractive, tasteful and appealed to both sexes.…
After Breast Cancer Reaches Survivors With Free Post-Mastectomy Apparel
After Breast Cancer Reaches Survivors With Free Post-Mastectomy Apparel After Breast Cancer (ABC) founder Alicia Vianga at her booth for the Toronto Argonauts Pink Game versus the Montreal Alouettes. A portion of the tickets ABC sold was donated back to the program.Much of the public discourse surrounding breast cancer focuses on the battle against it,…
Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Haiti: Warner Chappell Music Exec Vivian Barclay Discovers Progress First-Hand
Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Haiti: Warner Chappell Music Exec Vivian Barclay Discovers Progress First-Hand Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks with Warner Chappell Music Canada GM Vivian Barcley on the flight to Haiti for his Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.Haiti has been battered. Almost three years on from the…
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner Two members of Toronto Peel Police with Toronto Maple Leafs president/general manager Brian Burke (2nd from left) and head coach Randy Carlyle (far right).While the National Hockey League lockout continues, members of the Toronto Maple Leafs camp, including president and general…
Reindeer Art Installation Beats A Giant Blow-up Santa
Reindeer Art Installation Beats A Giant Blow-up Santa These acrylic reindeer are now grazing throughout Westfield Century City and Century Mall until they go to their new owners' homes after January 1.Forget a blow-up Santa or snowman on your lawn. How about a massive, colourful reindeer? The unique art installation of oversized acrylic reindeer in Los…
Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas To Help The World
Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas To Help The World The Ontario SPCA offers cat and dog holiday care packages for critters in their shelters.Few things combat the holiday season’s crass commercialism as effectively as charity. Ironically, few holidays offer such a smorgasbord of altruistic choices for the forward-thinking. You just have to look past the…
Spectacular 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief Album For Sale
Spectacular 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief Album For Sale A 24-track album of last night’s marathon 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief — broadcast live around the world from New York’s Madison Square Garden and featuring The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel and many more — can now be pre-…
Ethical Deal Website Lets Consumers Shop Responsibly
Ethical Deal Website Lets Consumers Shop Responsibly Annalea Krebs, founder of ethicalDeal.comYou don’t really want to buy apples with a waxy film on them or eat a tomato drenched in pesticides. And that chemical-laden laundry detergent residue can’t really be good next to your skin nor the dish soap making your drinking glasses sparkling clean, but, alas…
All Hail Prev Ale, New Charity Brew From Rapper
All Hail Prev Ale, New Charity Brew From Rapper Prevail from hip hop group Swollen MembersRapper Prevail from multi-platinum Canadian group Swollen Members now has his own beer, aptly named Prev Ale. Created by North Vancouver microbrewery Red Truck Beer Company, the brand new seasonal ale will be sold on tap at…