As Annaleise Carr left the water Sunday, she became the youngest girl ever to swim the 32-mile (52 km) crossing of Lake Ontario, besting her long-time hero Marilyn Bell, who made the first such crossing in 1954 at the age of 16. Her fundraising goal of $50,000 to benefit a camp for kids with cancer was exceeded Sunday while in mid-swim, when she received a single donation of $10,000 to buoy her spirits.
In 12 cities across two countries, nearly 500 business executives, advocates and celebrities slept outside on the streets in freezing temperatures Thursday night to let homeless kids know they matter. The decades-old Covenant House was able to raise more than 11 million dollars in conjunction with events held across North America.
Talk about the ultimate space jam. The song is called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing), and it's billed as the first space-Earth musical collaboration. It's a very long-distance project from Canadians Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and Chris Hadfield, who currently commands the International Space Station. The song was released in a video Feb 8, 2013.
The State of Homeless in Canada 2013, released this week by the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, showed a 51 percent drop in the number of people living on the streets of Toronto between 2006 and 2011. Vancouver did even better, as coast to coast municipalities were turning the tide.
With shovels, rakes, and hoes in hand, the women of a Mississauga housing complex transformed a vacant piece of land into a bountiful garden that grew into a small business and changed their neighborhood.
A selfie video that a 49-year-old Toronto-area woman took to show numbness and slurred speech she was experiencing, helped doctors to diagnose her as having a mini-stroke.
The London area of Ontario hasn't had a smog advisory for 18 months, a dramatic reversal for a region that once suffered through dozens of smog days a year and traditionally has some of Canada's dirtiest air
Jim Munro, who is 84 and ready to retire from running his successful Munro's Books in Victoria, B. C., is doing something exceptional: he is giving the business to four of his employees.
An Ontario couple adopted a piglet under the mistaken belief that there was such a thing as a "minipig". When Esther grew into the hundreds of pounds, they realized she needed to get out of their small home. And so was born the idea of a farm sanctuary, "Happily Ever Esther" in the nearby countryside, purchased with the help of 8,000 Internet crowdfunding fans.
A unique charity program dreamed up by three young Canadians has provided almost 114,000 meals to those in need whenever diners eat out at participating local restaurants. It gives a free meal every time someone purchases a designated menu item at 84 partner restaurants across Canada. When they do, Mealshare provides a meal to a local hunger charity, at no extra cost to the diner.
A year-long $2.1 million study by the federal government agency, Health Canada, found no link between wind turbine noise and migraines, dizziness, or chronic illnesses like high blood pressure and diabetes.
At a packed arena in Canada, where Canadian and US NHL hockey teams were set to battle on the ice, the singer's microphone failed during the US national anthem and the music suddenly stopped. That's when Canadians, in a heartwarming moment, picked up the song and finished it.
A Toronto family business located in a "bad neighborhood" called Jane and Finch, saw nothing but honesty on their security camera footage after leaving the shop unlocked for several hours.
The site design for Toronto's Brick Works, a unique project that involves restoring nature in the city while incorporating heritage buildings and an art component, was unveiled.
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