Racin’ through Safeway, all for a great cause!
It may not exactly look like Christmas is right around the corner, but with only six weeks until the big day, Wednesday marked the kick off of the 23rd annual Mayor’s Food Drive. About a dozen or so...
View ArticleMetro: The pressures of charitable gift giving.
It’s the time of year where we are all thinking about money. If you’re like me, you’re probably wishing you had more so you get the gifts that you really want for your friends and family. But just...
View ArticleNew Sarah McLachlan: To pay or not to pay?
One of Canada’s biggest musicians, Sarah McLachlan is giving the Gift of Music this year…and it’s up to you if you want to pay for it!! The students at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music have released...
View ArticleBid on my Empty Bowl for the Calgary Food Bank!
The Empty Bowl Benefit is one of my favourite things to do every year. It’s a great event that sees celebrities, media personalities and I guess a blogger, painting bowls and auctioning them off,...
View ArticleTimeraiser is a hit!
It was definitely a busy night in Calgary last night! After the FFWD Awards, I headed over to the sold out Timeraiser event. In case you don’t know, Timeraiser is a once a year event where people bid...
View ArticleSpecial event and contest: U:Party for UEnd:Poverty!
It’s a concert! It’s a fundraiser! It’s a party! I’m so excited to be involved with a very cool event next week and I want you to come with me! U:Party for UEnd:Poverty will be taking place on...
View ArticleGetting for the scariest challenge of my life!
On September 6th, I’ll probably doing the craziest thing that I’ve ever done in my life, when I throw myself off the top of Calgary’s biggest towers, all for a good cause. Okay, maybe “throwing myself...
View ArticleEaster Seals Drop Zone: Ready to drop…some change?
As you may have heard, I’m participating in the Easter Seals Drop Zone this Thursday! Around 3:30pm, I’ll be rappelling 30-storeys down the Sun Life Tower in hopes of raising a ton of cash and...
View Article“Chairlift’ for a cause!
Of all the things I am, chair designer is not one that is very high on the list, if at all. But a few weeks ago, The Calgary Home and Design Show asked if I could design my own Ikea ... READ MORE
View ArticleCharity: Bid on my bowl and KISS hunger goodbye!
Calgary’s Interfaith Food Bank’s Empty Bowl Benefit is one of my favourite events of the year! It’s the only time I really get to play with paint and hopefully raise lots of money for one of the...
View ArticleTop tips on how to give the gift of charity!
On Friday morning, I joined the CTV Morning Live team to talk about ways that everyone can give gifts at Christmas and be charitable at the same time! I had such an interesting time putting together...
View ArticleCharity: Bid on my bowl and win tickets to Reba, Wicked and A Christmas Carol!
For the fifth year in a row, I’m so excited to be participating in the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank’s Empty Bowl Benefit. Basically, they ask a bunch of Calgary personalities, sports stars and, well,...
View Article#StreakWeek: Six things I now know about streaking!
This post is presented by Stanfields Streaking. If you told me I was going to spend an entire evening researching the origins of some people’s need for public nakedness, I would tell you this isn’t...
View ArticlePriceless Aliens memorabilia signed by the entire cast is up for auction to...
Calling all collectors of movie memorabilia! The Calgary Expo is auctioning off a priceless collectors item, and it’s all for a good cause. As soon as I heard this story, I knew you guys would love it....
View ArticleThis sweater is made completely with the hair of gay Canadians!
More than a hundred gay Canadians have joined together (literally) to make the gayest sweater anyone has ever seen. Okay, that probably needs some context. The Gay Sweater Project is an initiative...
View ArticleHow a celebration of pink is helping Canadian youth from coast to coast to...
On Wednesdays we wear pink…and hopefully every day until February 24th. In support of Shaw Communications’ #PinkShirtPromise campaign, Post-it® Brand* and CrossIron Mills are embarking on an initiative...
View ArticleCalgary chefs join forces to make food bank inspired dishes!
Move over Oktoberfest, because this month is all about the first ever OctoberFeast event. What is it? Over 20 Calgary restaurants have come together for Octoberfeast from October 1 through 15th. For...
View ArticleThis is your chance to win $1000 from the Calgary Foundation to donate to a...
I have been excited to tell you about this blog post for months! Today, as a part of Giving Tuesday, we’re launching a new campaign and contest with my amazing friends at the Calgary Foundation. The...
View ArticleNew campaign challenges me and all Calgarians to ask what we know about poverty.
Calgary can be a tricky city. On one hand, we’re often portrayed as a successful city. An abundant city. A city full of kind, caring Calgarians often known as being the most volunteer-friendly people...
View ArticleEaster Seals Drop Zone: Ready to drop…some change?
As you may have heard, I’m participating in the Easter Seals Drop Zone this Thursday! Around 3:30pm, I’ll be rappelling 30-storeys down the Sun Life Tower in hopes of raising a ton of cash and...
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