August 19th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Fourteen-year-old Kevin suddenly seems like a different kid. The outgoing teen has stopped hanging out with friends, withdraws to his room as soon as he gets in the door and isn’t interested in anything—not even his computer, which was one of his favourite activities.
His mom figures he’s had a falling out with [...]
August 19th, 2009 Tanya Hutchens tells you Why You Can Donate With Confidence to the MS Society of Canada
Canadians have given the MS Society their trust since 1948. Today, on an annual basis, more than 1 million donors and 100,000 local volunteers and event participants give their time and money to the MS Society. We are proud of [...]
August 19th, 2009 Tanya Hutchens admires Gary and Silvia Peltier for there dedication.
The national Board of Directors of The Children’s Wish foundation of Canada has presented its sixth annual Laura Cole Volunteer of the Year Award to Gary and Silvia Peltier of Woodlands, Manitoba.
For more than two decades, the husband and wife team of Gary and Sylvia (Silver) [...]
August 19th, 2009 Thanks to new funding secured through the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), CPAR-Uganda is launching two new programs to meet the needs of war-affected communities in the north.
In February, CPAR began work on a pilot youth and community peacebuilding initiative funded by DFAIT called “By [...]
August 19th, 2009 Tanya Hutchens wants you to get involved with SPCA.
The Hamilton Burlington SPCA is celebrating 20 years of Wiggling and Waggling to raise money for programs and services provided by the HBSPCA.
This year’s event is set for Sunday September 13th at Bayfront Park in Hamilton.
Registration begins at 9am.
Start Collecting Pledges now to qualify for great [...]
August 17th, 2009 Tanya Hutchens MS Global Dinner Party
Every year, on the last Saturday in February, people around the world host dinner parties in support of MS research. [...]
August 17th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Ottawa, August 5, 2009 — Walmart Canada announced today that its stores nationwide will be raising much-needed funds for Canadian Red Cross. The campaign, which runs from August 5 to 31 in 312 outlets coast-to-coast, is expected to raise $2.1 million. Since 2003, Walmart Canada has raised and donated nearly $7 million [...]
August 17th, 2009 Mount Sinai is the hospital that philanthropy built. We owe our very existence to a group of passionate volunteers who raised $12,000, much of it in nickels and dimes, to open the Hebrew Maternity and Convalescent Hospital, on Yorkville Avenue, in 1923.
Our name and location have changed, but philanthropic support remains central to our status [...]
August 17th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
You might be tempted to call it the “McGene” because it is frequently found to be mutated in many types of cancers.More properly known as the c-Myc gene (pronounced mick, also referred to as just Myc), this gene produces a protein that binds to the DNA of other genes and plays a [...]
August 17th, 2009 Thanks to Tanya Hutchens for her support of the Police Retirees of Ontario.
The Police Retirees of Ontario was founded in 1990 and Incorporated on August 1, 1990, by a group of retired police officers for the purpose of establishing an organization which would be dedicated to serving an exclusive membership restricted to retired law enforcement [...]