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Fledgling Non-Profit Seeks to Heal Kids through Art
Fledgling Non-Profit Seeks to Heal Kids through Art Kalista Zackhariyas experienced abuse as a child and says art saved her life. She founded Youth Code to help others.If there is a subject grimmer than that of children suffering abuse and trauma, it’s children suffering abuse and trauma without receiving adequate treatment. But treatment can take many…
Higher Education for African Girls The Focus of New Charity
Higher Education for African Girls The Focus of New Charity Graduates of Beautiful World Canada's education scholarships in Uganda, Dec. 2012.Most would agree the problems facing Africa are many and complex. They are also interdependent which means solving one crisis invariably impacts another, hopefully in a positive way. The trick is figuring out where…
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On Hoax Couture's Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle have helped raise more than $100,000 for The Stephen Lewis Foundation through their Dare To Wear Love galas and challenges.Bespoke fashion designers and philanthropists Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell of Hoax Couture are turning Valentine’s Day into Canada Day — and then…
Palestinian Man Walking 500 KM In Winter to Save Canadian
Palestinian Man Walking 500 KM In Winter to Save Canadian Khaled Khatib (L) is walking 500km for Anthony Socci, who is in need of a kidney donor — photo credit: Stey By Step.How far would you go for a virtual stranger? Palestinian visitor Khaled Khatib is willing to walk 500 kilometres in the blistering cold to help Toronto’s Anthony Socci find a matching…
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,…
Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls
Kool Kicks Drive Spearheaded By Two Kind Souls (L to R): Joshua Stern, Daley Douglas, Joye Dunkley, Nicole Stiletto and Neddy Nyce outside Toronto's Salvation Army Maxwell Meighen Center during the Kool Kicks shoe drive initiative.For most people, January is a time of resolutions though few survive past the end of the month. But there is one thing folks…
Molson Gets Volunteers To Give’r To Parks, Rewards With Concert Tix
Molson Gets Volunteers To Give’r To Parks, Rewards With Concert Tix Molson Red Leaf Project volunteers at Barrie, Ont.'s Golden Meadow Park August 3, weeding, garden plot harvesting and doing general clean up around the park.. Even in an age of widespread and often impressive corporate social responsibility, the environmentally forward Red Leaf Project…
Stripping For Better Living
Stripping For Better Living Seeking some gems on the racks at Montreal's 2011 Take Off Your Clothes event (Photo credit: Christian Robillard Imagine if you could make the world a better place simply by taking off your clothes. The Swap Team’s Take Off Your Clothes, North America’s biggest clothing swap, is a movement that encourages people to trade in…
The Bully Project: More Than Just A Film
The Bully Project: More Than Just A Film American director Lee Hirsch and producer Cynthia Lowen, whose timely and riveting — and heart breaking — documentary The Bully Project follows the lives of five bullied children and their families, hopes the film will not only be a teaching tool at schools across North America, but that it starts a whole anti-bullying movement, also called The Bully…
El Mocambo Owner Follows Mother Teresa
El Mocambo Owner Follows Mother Teresa El Mocambo owner Mr. Abbas delivering food to Toronto's homeless communityAbbas Jahangiri permits himself a wry smile as he recalls his startling switch from Toronto-based entrepreneur to philanthropist maintaining an almost inhuman schedule performing humanitarian works across the globe. “I used to be a capitalist…
Speakers, Seminars, 70 Vendors At Toronto Pet Fun Fest And Adopt A Pet-A-Thon
Speakers, Seminars, 70 Vendors At Toronto Pet Fun Fest And Adopt A Pet-A-Thon Pet Fun Fest and Adopt A Pet-a-thon is a unique indoor event being held at Toronto’s Downsview Park, February 13 and 14 at Studio 3 (40 Carl Hall Road) that includes guest speakers, seminars, and more than 70 vendors and animal welfare groups. Admission is $5 for humans ($3 in…
Sam Roberts And The Girls To Play Acoustic Charity Concert
Sam Roberts And The Girls To Play Acoustic Charity Concert Sam RobertsSam Roberts, Sarah Harmer and Kathleen Edwards have been confirmed for this year’s acoustic Holiday Jam at Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre, December 14. The artists — all on the management rosters of the concert organizers Eggplant Entertainment, Bernie Breen Management & Dave…
Pet Heroes: Purina Builds Legacy of Pet Care Beyond Food
Pet Heroes: Purina Builds Legacy of Pet Care Beyond Food
Purina Builds Legacy of Pet Care Beyond Food
The name Purina has been synonymous with pet food for more than 50 years. But for the past couple of them, Nestle Purina PetCare Canada has been supporting a number of education and advocacy initiatives in the pet community through its Purina…
A Slaight of Charitable Causes
A Slaight of Charitable Causes