Unpacking Development

BENEFIT: Busking For Change Tuesday September 29. (War Child) Musicians take to the streets to raise money for war-affected children. Donation. warchild.ca/buskingforchange. LECTURE: Alba: Dawn Of Solidarity In Latin America Wednesday September 30. Venezuela We Are With You Coalition panel discussion. 7 pm. Free. Centre for Social Justice, 489 College. suzanneweiss63@yahoo.com. LECTURE: Namugenyi Kiwanuka Thursday [...]

FEATURED EVENT OF THE WEEK: ONE WEB DAY SEPTEMBER 22,2009. www.onewebday.org “OneWebDay is an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares [...]

BENEFIT: Dakota Nights for War Child An Evening with Ron Sexsmith Monday September 14, 2009. The Dakota Tavern, 249 Ossington Avenue (at Dundas). Doors open: 7:00 pm. Show Starts: 8:00 pm. Tickets $35 at www.maplemusic.com. All proceeds to benefit War Child Canada for more information www.dakotatavern.ca. BENEFIT: Hope For Healing (Stephen Lewis Foundation) Performances by [...]

Before travelling to Africa with Belinda Stronach a couple of summers ago, Rick Mercer vowed never to “come back from Africa like one of the arseholes on TV who won’t shut up about Africa”.  After reneging on that promise (which is fine with me!) the two of them started Spread the Net, a charity (obviously) [...]

BENEFIT: Sierra Club Music Fundraser at the El Mocambo, Performances by Jia Harlow, Coal Mine Canaries and Others. $8, $5 with a food Item www.elmocambo.ca Thursday September 10, 8pm to 2am CONFERENCE: Webcast of the TEDx TO Conference happening on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at the Theatre Passe Muraille. In effort to make the conference [...]

FILM: The Antartica Challenge: A Global Warning Tues. Sept. 1st at the Centre for Social Innovation? at 215 Spadina Ave. Suite 12 6:30pm-9:30pm ?tickets at the door?, $4 members, $5 non-members SYMPOSIUM: African Travel Expo: Travel, tourism and real estate exhibits, seminars, fashion shows, drumming classes and more. Tues. Sept 1 To Sept 3, 10 am-6 [...]

I opened up the August Age issue of Vogue earlier this week to find that within the first few pages of the magazine there were two articles that focused on a public figure discussing their involvement with a charity. Christy Turlington and “It” girl of the moment (according to Vogue) Liya Kebede, in this case [...]

I’ve just moved from Toronto to Vancouver and am looking for ways to get involved with global issues in my new city.  I thought I would share five strategies that are helping me to get connected with change here on the West Coast. 1) Look for Posters Large charity events usually have lots of advertising.  [...]

Recently guest posted at mascmag.com (“a space for young men to explore how masculinity affects their lives”): One of the greatest stereotypes about men is that they hate going to the doctor, especially when it comes to sex.  The recent Toronto Teen Survey on sexual health backs this up: in Toronto, young women are twice [...]

Vote for CAPAIDS for TWESTIVALTO’s charity recipient HERE now! Hi Everyone, The charity that I support, CAPAIDS, is a potential beneficiary of the first ever Twestival Local Toronto (TwestivalTO). TwestivalTO is the local chapter of Twestival Global, a community-powered, Twitter-driven global charity event which raised over $250,000.00 for Charity:Water last February. The charity with the [...]