BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
It’s hard to believe that another chapter could possibly be
added to the story of yoga, which already spans the globe and the millennia. And
yet a new, perhaps unlikely group — at-risk and incarcerated youth — is
discovering the stress relief, mood-enhancement and improved balance and fitness
benefits of regular yoga practice.
That’s thanks to the New Leaf Yoga Foundation. The Toronto-based
registered charity brings downward dog, shavasana, meditation and conscious
breathing — and the above-mentioned benefits they confer — to teens “overcoming
histories...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Cristina Scabbia, co-vocalist for Italian metal band Lacuna
Coil, has a water well in her name in Kajiado area of Kenya from her
contribution to Rezophonic, an ambitious collaborative album, whose proceeds go
to the world renown African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF).
“Rezophonic is a musical project that involves more than a
hundred artists from the underground, mainly the rock scene. Now it involves
more people even from different scenes, even the very big Italian artists,”
Scabbia tells Samaritanmag.com.
“I got a call from them the...
BY AARON BROPHY, www.samaritanmag.com
On any given weekend you might find Oshawa, Ontario's Rob Weir catching a pass from former National Hockey League legend Darryl Sittler, attempting to deke around hall-of-famer Marcel Dionne, or ducking and dodging the elbows and slashes of the Hanson Brothers of Slap Shot fame.
Swirling around the ice with former pros is an unlikely place for a guy like Weir, who didn't even start playing hockey until the age of 20, but he's got a good reason. Weir's the program coordinator of the Heart & Stroke Foundations' Hockey For Heart series of charitable...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Charity was far from the minds of the ecstatic girls that comprised the majority of the 2750-capacity audience at Toronto’s Massey Hall last night (Dec. 21) for Justin Bieber’s rare theatre concert. They were just focused on the 17-year-old pop heartthrob, as he performed with his guitarist, Dan Kanter, for close to two hours.All ticket proceeds from the special Christmas show, Justin Bieber: Home For The Holidays, which airs tonight on Canada's MuchMusic/CTV, went to his Believe Charity Drive — but even before those figures were calculated...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Put on your short-shorts and get ready to boogie - that is if you wanna have some fun on the dance floor for a good cause. Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation (PMHF) has scored the inimitable Richard Simmons to lead its first ever Dance To Conquer Cancer fundraiser on February 12. That's in the afternoon, then in the evening, disco queen Gloria Gaynor will be the guest performer at the Boogie Nights fundraising dinner and dance.
"Our goal is to conquer cancer in our lifetime," PMHF president and CEO said in a statement. "We hope that our...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Sarah McLachlan and students from Vancouver’s
Sarah McLachlan School of Music (SoM)
are offering a free original Christmas song the kids wrote and recorded with
the hopes that people, in turn, will give money, however small, to the school the
Grammy-winning singer started for disadvantaged youth. McLachlan sings on the track.
“Space On The Couch For Two” was written
spontaneously in between set-up time and a photo shoot the students were doing with McLachlan on November 22.
The multi-platinum singer-songwriter and
Lilith Fair founder heard a bar of...
BY KIM HUGHES, www.samaritanmag.com
It’s hard to believe that another chapter could possibly be
added to the story of yoga, which already spans the globe and the millennia. And...
BY AARON BROPHY, www.samaritanmag.com
On any given weekend you might find Oshawa, Ontario's Rob Weir catching a pass from former National Hockey League legend Darryl Sittler,...
BY STEVE McLEAN, www.samaritanmag.com
The National Hockey League Alumni Association has raised more than $16 million for Alzheimer's disease research since launching a Toronto...
BY STEVE McLEAN, www.samaritanmag.com
Toronto's Cheryl Perera was appalled when she learned about the child sex trade in Bangkok, Thailand during a high school civics class. But...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Cristina Scabbia, co-vocalist for Italian metal band Lacuna
Coil, has a water well in her name in Kajiado area of Kenya from her
contribution to Rezophonic, an ambitious collaborative album, whose proceeds go
to the world renown African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF).
“Rezophonic is a musical project that involves more than a
hundred artists from the underground, mainly the rock scene. Now it involves
more people even from different scenes, even the very big Italian artists,”
Scabbia tells Samaritanmag.com.
“I got a call from them the...
BY KAREN BLISS, www.samaritanmag.com
Charity was far from the minds of the ecstatic girls that comprised the majority of the 2750-capacity audience at Toronto’s Massey Hall last night (Dec. 21) for Justin Bieber’s rare theatre concert. They were just focused on the 17-year-old pop heartthrob, as he performed with his guitarist, Dan Kanter, for close to two hours.All ticket proceeds from the special Christmas show, Justin Bieber: Home For The Holidays, which airs tonight on Canada's MuchMusic/CTV, went to his Believe Charity Drive — but even before those figures were calculated...
