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Truthfully? The world of charities—a world I’ve inhabited for more than 25 years—is beginning to drive me a bit crazy. What are we supposed to think of charities, anyway? Are they a deer in the headlights responding like the proverbial damsel in distress to events beyond their control? Are they made up of scheming profiteers […]
The question of colour is one of many surrounding the merger of the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF). For now, it seems to be hanging in the air alongside rumination around the appearance of next spring’s tulip. It’s out there, but no one’s really put it into words yet. […]
Attention Gentlest of Blog Readers! My new book baby is on the way from Civil Sector Press! Received cover mock-ups from the publisher today. Pub date is January 20, 2017. Pre-order publicity starts December 12th. Don’t worry. I will definitely keep you posted when that business goes live. Here’s a sneak peak at the cover. […]
On October 14, 2016, the Globe and Mail published a story, New, flashy SickKids advertisement aimed at untapped donors. Where, I thought, as someone who has worked in the charitable sector for 25 years, could the untapped markets for the Sick Kids Foundation be hiding? If Torontonians were asked to name one charity, they would […]
The timing is helpful to the analogy. Yesterday in a Toronto courtroom, Jian Ghomeshi, as part of a brokered deal which according to the judge the complainant had a lot of input into, signed a peace bond and apologized to Kathryn Borel for sexually harassing her at work eight years ago. After the settlement, Borel […]
Yesterday at the BRIT awards in London, after a lovely obituary by Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman, who accepted the rare BRIT Icon Award on Bowie’s family’s behalf, 19-year old singer, Lorde—a young woman David Bowie called the “tomorrow” of music—walked out to centre stage and, backed up by Bowie’s long time touring band, sang Life […]
December 3, 2015 We’re all Cleveland “Indians” now. In an announcement that surprised no one, Mark Shapiro (sha-PIE-row), Blue Jays president and former longtime employee of the Cleveland Indians, hired his former number two guy, also a longtime Cleveland employee, Ross Atkins, as the Blue Jays new General Manager, bumping longtime Jays employee, Tony LaCava, […]
November 19, 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Loses its Troubadour Ron Hynes, Newfoundland’s “man of a thousand songs” passed away today at the Health Sciences Complex in St. John’s, the result of having had cancer. Moments after his death was announced, the power went out in downtown St. John’s, the result of a hydro pole catching […]
Mark Shapiro will become the President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday, November 3rd , taking over from longtime President and CEO, Paul Beeston, an old-school baseball guy, whose soft spot for the fans I have personally experienced more than one time. Shapiro, apparently pronounced sha-PIE-row, is coming to Toronto after 24 […]
Baseball has its many charms whether your home team is winning or not. For the baseball fan, the season starts in April and ends in October, and during that time, someone’s home team somewhere is winning and, what with television and the Internet being what it is today, you can actually see the great teams […]
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