Results tagged “canadianredcross”

GTA resident Suresh Joachim is going for another record. This time he'll be trying to karaoke for 50 hours straight to raise funds for the Canadian Red Cross. Joachim is infamous for breaking inane world records. In the last few years he's broken the record for balancing on one foot, dribbling a basketball, dancing with a partner and watching TV. In this photo he's breaking the record for crawling.

The Pindoff's are sort of an archaic and magical success story. They made their money selling records, they survived two wars, they trade in neat and uplifting life themes like "health and happiness," They have a habit of giving money to good causes. They are 89 and 79. They are cute. They are great.

We can’t all be humanitarian celebs, donating US$1M to the Red Cross’s good work (Sandra Bullock) or warbling on a fundraising single (Boy George, Cliff Richard et al.). Enter Nathalie-Roze Fischer, go-getting local columnist (and chief glamazon of her accessories fempire).

And blogger Benjamin Rosenbaum has a Better Business Bureau-researched list of which charities are working most efficiently. Courtesy BoingBoing. (BoingBoing also has much tsunami blogosphere news, and discussions of Gov't suppression of news)