When retired WNBA star Ruth Riley came to Toronto to take part in an NBA Fit event as part of the city's NBA All-Star Game celebrations, it represented far from the only charitable endeavor the...
Toronto’s The Slaight Family Foundation (SFF) has announced that 11 Canadian national charities that serve children and youth will each receive a donation of $1 million. The selection of the...
Celebrity chef Roger Mooking and deli king Zane Caplansky are extending February’s Hero Day for the entire month in an effort to help Toronto’s Second Harvest raise more money for its...
Every day in every corner of the continent, an army of cat-loving volunteers — some organized, some ad hoc and responding to strays that simply turn up in the backyard one day — set...
For the next year, chocolate brownies commemorating what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday will be on sale in Liverpool to raise money for Imagine No Food Poverty, a campaign led by...
On Oct. 22 Stars/Broken Social Scene musician Amy Millan will receive an award for something decidedly non-musical — promoting seed saving.
The 2015 Planet In Focus film festival's...
New Zealand rock band Crowded House and British actor Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Star Trek Into The Darkness) have teamed up for the new music video "Help Is...
Nickelback guitarist Ryan Peake and his wife, fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist Treana Peake, are experiencing the difficulties of living with a lot less right now while they participate in the...
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has declared this Friday (Sept. 19) Canada’s first-ever Slurpee Name Your Price Day at all 491 of its stores and the money all goes to food banks. Given...
MAGIC!, the Los Angeles-based Canadian transplants whose reggae-pop song “Rude” went double-platinum in Canada before their debut album comes out in June, will be joining Simple Plan...