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Music Label We Are Busy Bodies Supports SickKids Hospital with 100th Release

Music Label We Are Busy Bodies Supports SickKids Hospital with 100th Release Toronto independent music label We Are Busy Bodies is marking its 100th release by contributing proceeds from its sales to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). WABB 100 features nine new and previously unheard tracks from We Are Busy Bodies artists who’ve released music in…

Autism Canada is Latest Beneficiary of Youth Pop Group Girl Pow-R

Autism Canada is Latest Beneficiary of Youth Pop Group Girl Pow-R Girl Power-R — photo provided. Juno Award-nominated pop band Girl Pow-R is using its social media channels to “share ideas on how everyone can be a ‘helper’ to those who need support right now” during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re experiencing this quickly-changing and challenging time…

SickKids Get Better Gifts Campaign Aims To Support Youths Who'll Be In Treatment Over Holidays

SickKids Get Better Gifts Campaign Aims To Support Youths Who'll Be In Treatment Over Holidays SickKids Get Better Gifts campaign — photo via SickKidsA giving campaign is ensuring patients who'll be in treatment over the holidays at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto will receive some form of gift. The SickKids Foundation's Get Better Gifts…

Shawn Mendes Limited Edition Charity Baseball Caps Available at Roots

Shawn Mendes Limited Edition Charity Baseball Caps Available at Roots Shawn Mendes Foundation charity baseball cap — courtesy photo.Shawn Mendes is on the face of Tim Horton’s coffee cups and now he’s got a limited-edition collection at clothing retailer Roots.  Launched today (Sept. 4) to celebrate the multi-platinum pop star’s hometown stadium show at …

Shawn Mendes Launches Eponymous Charitable Foundation

Shawn Mendes Launches Eponymous Charitable Foundation Shawn Mendes — photo credit: Unversal Music Group.Canadian global pop star Shawn Mendes has launched a charitable foundation with $1 million in funds and partnerships, with Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the environmental nonprofit Reverb as its first two main beneficiaries. “For…

Tastemakers TIFF Gifting Lounge Donates Autographed Board and Cheque to SickKids

Tastemakers TIFF Gifting Lounge Donates Autographed Board and Cheque to SickKids (L to R) Rock-it Promotions' Debra Goldblatt-Sadowski and Lindsey Virtue present cheque to SickKids Foundation — photo courtesy of Rock-it Promotions.Rock-It Promotions, the PR firm behind the annual Tastemakers gifting lounge during the Toronto International Film Festival (…

Country Singer Gord Bamford Gives Away $10,000 Seven Times On Tour

Country Singer Gord Bamford Gives Away $10,000 Seven Times On Tour Kids at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital don paper cowboy hats for singer Gord Bamford's visit, March 6, Toronto — photo credit: Yasmin Soul. While sporting homemade paper cowboy hats, the children at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto anxiously…

Rock Band Simple Plan Raise & Give Away $300,000 To Cap 2014

Rock Band Simple Plan Raise & Give Away $300,000 To Cap 2014 Marie-Mai joins Simple Plan at the 2nd annual Simple Plan & Friends benefit show — photo credit: Steve Campbell.Simple Plan capped off 2014 by giving away $300,000, a record for the Montreal rock band’s Foundation and bringing its total tally since forming in 2005 to $1.5 million in…

13-Year-Old Raises $150,000 From Annual Lemonade Stand And Donations

13-Year-Old Raises $150,000 From Annual Lemonade Stand And Donations Amanda at her first lemonade stand, June 1999.Amanda Belzowski is a 13-year-old with a big assignment to finish. It’s not an English essay or science fair project. The Toronto teen is trying to spread the word about her 13th annual lemonade stand fundraiser, which has raised over $150,…

Police Punch-Ups Help Send Kids To Camp

Police Punch-Ups Help Send Kids To Camp Out on the street, two police officers punching each other would likely get them taken into custody, but at the 2011 Police Memorial “Ringside For Kids,” held April 28, at Le Treport Wedding and Convention Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, it was in the name of charity. Presented by Canadian Emergency Services Boxing Association (CESBA), the fourth annual…

Three Days Grace Gathers Goods For Herbie Rocks

Three Days Grace Gathers Goods For Herbie Rocks Toronto rock band Three Days Grace is currently collecting goods and gear from fellow musicians, and anyone else of note, to auction off early next year for Herbie Rocks. The fundraising initiative was started by the multi-platinum-selling act after it became involved in a gala charity event two years ago…

SNL’s Seth Meyers to Host Stand Up for Kids

SNL’s Seth Meyers to Host Stand Up for Kids Seth Meyers, the host of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, is set to host Stand Up For Kids, an annual fundraiser at The Winter Garden Theatre, on Oct. 27, to raise money for charitable agencies that assist youth at risk in Canada. The event for Covenant House, Dixon Hall and The Robin Barhydt Rocks on Fund at the SickKids Foundation will also…