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Not-for-profit Bistro Aids Local Charities While Boosting Volunteerism
Not-for-profit Bistro Aids Local Charities While Boosting Volunteerism Robin de Bois bistro serves food and communityIf she’d known how tough running a restaurant was, Judy Servay never would have launched one, especially a not-for-profit designed to serve the community with every plate of food. But as the feisty first-time restaurateur behind Montreal’s…
Scotties Tissue Brand Helps Bring Comfort To Cancer Patient Lounge
Scotties Tissue Brand Helps Bring Comfort To Cancer Patient Lounge This stylish in-patient lounge in the oncology unit of Sunnybrook hospital was underwritten by Scotties brand tissue and Style At Home magazineAnyone battling cancer can use all the comfort they can get. So it’s no overstatement to say that a newly redecorated inpatient lounge in the…
Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More
Bluenotes Release Anti-Bullying T-Shirt With Simple Plan, Hedley & More Canadian denim retailer Bluenotes will be selling a $10 fundraising t-shirt for Kids Help Phone, as of Monday (Nov. 19). Emblazoned on the back are the words “Artists against loneliness, hate, bullying, anger, suffering” and the names of the Canadian musicians involved in the anti…
Help Give A "Warm Hug" To CAMH Patients This Holiday
Help Give A "Warm Hug" To CAMH Patients This Holiday Musician Kathleen Edwards poses with a Gift of Light. The Archway Music Group, made up of patients and staff of CAMH’s Archway outpatient clinic, is in the background.From pyjamas and slippers to a gift card to the coffee shop, this holiday season Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental…
Whole Foods Foundation's Micro-Loans Help 1.3 Million People
Whole Foods Foundation's Micro-Loans Help 1.3 Million People Micro-loan Foundation recipient Veronica in Malawi, marketing and servicing solar products in her tea shopMission statements seldom come simpler than the one guiding the Whole Planet Foundation, which aims to alleviate poverty through microcredit — small loans extended to poor people — in…
Movember Merch: Products That Support The Prostate
Movember Merch: Products That Support The Prostate The awesome power of the Movember moustache resides not only in the awareness it raises for men’s health, but it’s also the only time that men can get away with unruly facial hair and not instantly repel women. Hockey playoff beards can’t speak to this. Yes, it’s Movember again and clean-shaven men around the world kicked this month off by…
How Innovative Clothing Company Ten Tree Is Helping The Environment
How Innovative Clothing Company Ten Tree Is Helping The Environment Core Ten Tree teamKalen Emsley was at his computer, looking through Facebook, when he came across arresting image after arresting image of friend and former football rival Dave Luba in Hawaii. Luba, who was attending school on the islands, was also surrounding himself with nature — he was…
Halloween ‘Coins’ Raise Cash For Kids With Disabilities
Halloween ‘Coins’ Raise Cash For Kids With Disabilities Halloween has always been an elaborate exercise in give and take. This October 31, Toronto’s Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital, intends to level the playing field for those on both sides of the front door with a new…
Window Washing Superheroes Wow Sick Kids
Window Washing Superheroes Wow Sick Kids Allegheny Window Cleaning heroes Captain America (Mark Errico); Batman (Jim Zaremba); Superman (Ed Hetrick); and Spiderman (Rick Bollinger) before scaling the wall of Pittsburgh's Children's HospitalIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Superman, and he's washing windows! The life of a superhero is not meant to be…
Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical
Controversial Anti-War PSA Magical Children should not be carrying weapons and recruited as soldiers, this we know. Sadly, it is happening in various war-torn countries. As part of a larger campaign War Child Canada has launched, pro-bono partner John St. advertising agency in Toronto created a thought-provoking public service announcement (PSA) that…
Cineplex Offers Free Movies For Community Day Charity Event
Cineplex Offers Free Movies For Community Day Charity Event Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment continues its newly formed tradition of offering free movies on what it has declared National Community Day — this year, Oct. 20. Regular popcorn, drinks and select candy are for sale for $2. All proceeds go to the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Doors open at 8…
Appliance Manufacturer's Family Connection Informs CSR Decisions
Appliance Manufacturer's Family Connection Informs CSR Decisions Electrolux execs announcing its 365 nights of comfort initiative.Most people think of home when they think of appliances. So it made perfect sense when Electrolux Canada, maker of fridges, stoves, dishwashers and other shiny utilitarian things, recently announced a partnership with…
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry Feist accepts Polaris Music Prize cheque from Arcade Fire (right) and show hosts (left) — photo credit: Dustin RabinFeist doesn’t know how she will use the $30,000 she just received as winner of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, declaring Metals the year’s best Canadian album, but she is contemplating donating part or all of it. “…
Starbucks’ Thriving Neighbourhoods Program Makes It Easy To Act Locally
Starbucks’ Thriving Neighbourhoods Program Makes It Easy To Act Locally Starbucks employeers and community members help build a new pathway for the Strathcona Community Centre in Vancouver, April 2011When it comes to corporate social responsibility, Starbucks Canada is clearly using the old saw of "think globally, act locally” as a guiding principle. The…
My Darkest Days Rocker Thinks Pink For Grandma
My Darkest Days Rocker Thinks Pink For Grandma Sal Coz Costa with grandmother Monique (photo credit: Michael Hurcomb)Maybe a light pink guitar seems a little soft for a hard rock band like Canada’s My Darkest Days, but this custom-made Flying V, made especially for mohawked axeman Sal Coz Costa for a 53-date arena tour with Nickelback, was to be auctioned…