Why Helping Canadian Food Banks Is Important! Food is a significant issue affecting many Canadians. A recent report from CTV News revealed that one in five single adults in Canada suffer poverty and hunger. The study found that many single adults struggle to put food on the table, with some skipping meals and reducing their portion sizes to survive. This unfortunate reality is startling, and it's a call to action for everyone to work together to help those in need. While there are no easy solutions, there are ways to make a difference. For instance, supporting managed property electrical se ..read more

According to research, donating your time, money, and resources to those less fortunate can improve your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing... We all know that donating to charity is a wonderful way to help those in need. But what you may not be aware of is the many health benefits that come from giving. According to research, donating your time, money, and resources to those less fortunate can improve your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. So, not only are you helping others, but you're also helping yourself. Here are just a few of the surprising ways that donating to charit ..read more

The Couriers of Caring When does a two-year-old behind the wheel with a fistful of expired credit cards sound like a good idea? For Jeannie, it was the best solution she’d heard in Forever. Just like the rest of us, the last few months (and years) had felt like an unending game of Bad News Dodgeball. After a long illness, her mother had passed away. Jeannie herself had dodged two-and-a-half years of COVID strains...but then came the flu. You Know, the one that was worse because we had been protecting ourselves from COVID for two years. It was actually Jeannie’s two-year-old grandson Max who ..read more

Fresh Starts and New Years! If the yearly calendar was a race, the next few weeks would be a combination stretch-run obstacle course. Huge amounts of holiday joy and emotion, mixed in with the accompanying family pressures, multi-tasking, and shopping deadlines. Then, just six days later, New Years Eve arrives, with an almost mandatory demand to Celebrate! (Along with the not-too-subtle encouragement to list up a set of ‘Resolutions’, listing how you can be a better you…and guaranteeing a guilt-trip if (or more likely when) you slip up on those personal challenges.) Is it really that surpris ..read more

How Ca ring Can Be The BEST Shopping! Music and the Holidays were inseparable long before we had the ability to record music. Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas’ remains the biggest-selling single ever, at over 50 million copies sold. Part of the Beatles’ marketing (and magic) was always having an album out just before Christmas, so Mom and Dad’s shopping was made easier. (The fact that some of us are on their tenth copy of those albums, thanks to remastering and endless new formats, is a separate topic.) Music will always be a perfect gift, because of its universality, and also how incredibly ..read more

Oddly enough, the Cinderella story has been around as long as Halloween has been celebrated...and long before it went by that name... Yes, Halloween is normally associated with children. But adults have been known to enjoy chocolate, too. (The most recent statistics estimate that Americans alone spend roughly $2.6 Billion dollars on Halloween candy),Plus, grown-ups are not averse to wearing a costume and pretending to be someone else, at least for a night. Just like Cinderella at the ball, the idea that you can look and feel like somebody else, even for just a few hours, is pretty magical ..read more

And Here's Why... As someone else has undoubtedly broken the seal on a seasonal taboo, then let it be repeated: Christmas is less than a hundred days away. Which means, of course, a majority of us will binge-watch and be moved by all the holiday movies that activate our Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate cortex…not to mention the Medial Prefrontal Cortex. And how could we ever forget those special moments that are totally ‘Temperoparietal Junction’ material?        That list might sound more like a forensics report off ‘CSI’ than your response to the hundredth viewing of ‘It ..read more

‘Dana, dharma, sadaqa.tzedakah’…do you notice a common thread in those four words? What, not yet? Well, give us just three minutes...                  Imagine if you had the Ultimate GPS, and you could type in a wish, instead of a destination. If you typed in ‘Charity’, what route do you suppose would be suggested? Well, that all depends on where you’re starting from. While it’s almost always a good rule to never discuss religion or politics, it would be a sad omission to not acknowledge the occasions when they do, uncannily, arrive at the same p ..read more

How Charity Makes a Sad Song Better     ‘Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways, men can be immortal.’ - Ernest Hemingway.      It’s never a painless or uncomplicated thing to lose a loved one. One of the toughest aspects of the ongoing struggle with the pandemic has been the inability for so many people to say goodbye to loved ones, much less comfort them.      Maybe that is why Hemingway’s quote is actually reassuring. Suppose that you could still feel and appreciate the ..read more

The Stanley Cup Of Caring!  Allan Fotheriningham, one of Canada’s pre-eminent political writers, once noted that covering sports is an excellent school for learning to write about basically everything. Besides the obvious drama of winners and losers, there are character stories, underdogs, and more life lessons than a years’ worth of Afterschool Specials.. In honour of the ten-week rite of passage that is playoff hockey in Canada, we offer some time-honoured pieces of wisdom that apply just as well to charity, and life, as they do in the locker room…(and, no, no mentioning the Maple Lea ..read more