Jacob Schwartz is a modern miracle. Most children afflicted with Canavan disease, a rare neurodegenerative ailment that shuts down their body muscle by muscle, rarely see their fifth birthday....
Terri Clark, Michelle Wright, Dean Brody, Ridley Bent and Emerson Drive join another two dozen Canadian country artists on the charity single/video “Standing Strong and True (For Tomorrow),...
Scissor Sisters multi-instrumentalist Babydaddy has been supporting The Gender and Sexuality Advocacy and Education Program at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., long...
Susanne Courtney is the kind of woman you pray to be seated next to on a long-haul flight.
Smart, charming, peripatetic, fluently bilingual in French and English and with a dossier that...
Inspired by a “kooky” head-painting idea to make her best friend feel better after she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, Canadian 90210 actress Shenae Grimes has now started her own...
Sean Kingston, the “Beautiful Girls” hitmaker and co-star with Justin Bieber on the more recent “Eenie Meanie” single, is starting his own foundation.
“We’re...
Toronto’s Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival, now in its 11th year, runs October 13 to 17 and will screen 90 feature films, documentaries and short films...
“I’m focusing on making the education system have more female examples in the history books,” 19-year-old Anwar Basunbul, the G(irls) 20 Summit delegate from Saudi Arabia, tells...
Who hasn’t seen the Cashmere bathroom tissue television ad, in which a woman parades down the runway wearing a dress made out of toilet paper? Well, it’s not just the magic of television...
It’s a long way from the offices of a high-profile fashion magazine in Toronto to a medical charity’s temporary optical clinic in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, but the contrast...