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Sir Elton, Furnish Create Charity Candles, To Make Holt Renfrew In-Store Appearance
Sir Elton, Furnish Create Charity Candles, To Make Holt Renfrew In-Store Appearance Sir Elton John and husband, Toronto native David Furnish, have teamed up with Canada’s luxury department store chain Holt Renfrew and leading American home fragrance company NEST to create two limited edition, exclusive scented candles to benefit the Elton John AIDS…
Marble Slab's Extra Incentive To Buy Ice Cream & Mixins This Saturday
Marble Slab's Extra Incentive To Buy Ice Cream & Mixins This Saturday It’s hard to imagine a better charitable fit than one uniting children with ice cream... and happening during summertime. So the forthcoming Cones for Kids event hosted by the Canadian arm of the Marble Slab Creamery global ice cream company bears all the hallmarks of a…
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…
New Balance Sees Red For Olympics
New Balance Sees Red For Olympics The same shoes Canadian marathon stars Reid Coolsaet and Eric Gillis used to train for their 42.2 kilometre race at the 2012 Olympics in London, England on August 12 are for sale at Canadian retailers while supplies last. Famed shoe brand New Balance created the red Maple Leaf-emblazoned 890 Canada shoe, an Olympic-…
M&M Meats Shops' Discovery Leads To $23-million For Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
M&M Meats Shops' Discovery Leads To $23-million For Crohn's and Colitis Foundation M&M Meat Shops co-founder Mac Voisin - Photo credit: Bev Rock When M&M Meat Shops co-founder Mac Voisin decided that his frozen foods business would start donating to a little-known cause in 1989 -- less than a decade after he started M&M Meats…
Cancer Patients Transformed By Gorgeous Henna Dome Designs
Cancer Patients Transformed By Gorgeous Henna Dome Designs Photo credit: Frances Darwin; model: Tara Schubert; henna: Darcy Vasudev If the best way to de-stigmatize something is to boldly put it under people's noses, then Frances Darwin's Henna Heals is making conditional female baldness both acceptable and, perhaps improbably, kind of chic. The…
Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians
Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians 145 Live Solutions' Mike Bowman and Cathy Cutz team musicians, charities and corporations Toronto-based Michael Bowman and Cathy Cutz could blab your ears purple name-checking "synergy" and "metrics" and "low-hanging fruit" having worked for decades in media buying and marketing (Bowman) and…
Build-A-Bear Workshops Reward Huggable Heroes
Build-A-Bear Workshops Reward Huggable Heroes Cassidy Megan McCarthy from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a 2011 Huggable HeroOscar Wilde famously (and somewhat sagely) opined that youth is wasted on the young, but he might have retracted had he met any one of the 100 or so exceptional, altruistic kids unearthed by the Build-A-Bear Workshop’s Huggable Heroes…
Two Men And a Truck Issues Defibrillator Challenge To Other Vehicle Companies
Two Men And a Truck Issues Defibrillator Challenge To Other Vehicle Companies Photo credit: Paul CasselmanCanadian moving truck company is hoping other companies will keep on trucking but with a defibrillator on board. Two Men And A Truck has equipped all of its trucks with a “Mikey” defibrillator as part of the Mikey-on-Board program and brought in…
Designer Expands Heavily Researched Clothing Line For People In Wheelchairs
Designer Expands Heavily Researched Clothing Line For People In Wheelchairs Men's suit jacket ($265) and dress pants ($109) by IZ Adaptive ClothingLike a masterful novel, the story of Toronto-based clothing designer Izzy Camilleri gets deeper and more engrossing with every successive chapter. But what makes Camilleri’s narrative really soar is the fact…
NHL Alumni Take Shot At Finding Cure For Alzheimer’s
NHL Alumni Take Shot At Finding Cure For Alzheimer’s (L to R) Mark Napier, Dr. Frank Turner, Johnny Bower, Dr. Dan Andreae and Mike Pelyk at the Social Work Doctors’ Colloquium’s Award of Merit celebration dinner The National Hockey League Alumni Association has raised more than $16 million for Alzheimer's disease research since launching a Toronto…
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…
Ronald McDonald House Expansion Means More Families Can Stay Close To Hospitalized Child
Ronald McDonald House Expansion Means More Families Can Stay Close To Hospitalized Child Ronald McDonald House Rendering for new Ronald McDonald house, Toronto, for families to stay close to their hospitalized child, is expanding. Although more than 10,000 Canadian and international families annually require the services of the dozen Ronald McDonald…
'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…
Appliance Company Electrolux Receives Two CSR Honours
Appliance Company Electrolux Receives Two CSR Honours Major appliances corporation Electrolux, which sells more than 40 million products in more than 150 markets annually, has been given two honours, a place on Ethisphere Institute's 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies list and Energy Star Partner of the Year award for product manufacturer. The company,…