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Your Working Girl is not sure if you’ve been kept in the loop on the brouhaha with the New Brunswick foundation asking Justin Trudeau for a refund on his speaking fee, but she didn’t want the weekend to close without sharing. Chairperson, Ian Webster confirmed a couple of weeks ago that the charity was no […]
Your Working Girl’s dear friend Oscar Wilde knew a thing or two about sin and, perhaps unpredictably, quite a bit about charity. For anyone involved in the fundraising world, the early reports of what’s going down with the Grace Foundation in St. John, New Brunswick could make you a bit queasy. A board member of the Grace […]
Commander Chris Hadfield wasn’t the only one tearing up the Internet this past week. American author, David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address to Kenyon College, a private liberal arts college in Ohio has received 4.5 million views since an abridged version was posted on May 6, 2013, five years after Foster Wallace’s death from suicide […]
Your Working Girl noticed the re-tweet from Evan Hadfield early in the morning of May 13th. As she’s mentioned on previous occasions in this space, the work of Commander Hadfield has held her in thrall since he’s been sending his brilliant tweets from the ISS. He looked like he was having such a good time […]
From Your Working Girl’s Let’s Keep This All Social Media Buzz In Perspective Department, UNICEF Sweden released a compelling ad in April to bring the Facebook universe back to reality. It turns out that ‘liking’ something on Facebook doesn’t, in and of itself, do much at all. Brandchannel makes the point the that “while brands […]
The shortest cut to getting a piece of the money that’s floating around the charitable sector for your own personal self is to obtain your CFRE® — the Certified Fund Raising Executive certificate, a fundraising certification program run by the industry self-regulator, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The test is tough, made up of […]
Deep down, Your Working Girl’s populist side believes that hospitals, universities and associated government-funded buildings should be called “The People’s Cardiac Centre” or “The People’s Breast Cancer Laboratory”, “The People’s Law Library” and so on. She does, however, acknowledge it has the tinge of the Maoist about it and she doesn’t want to throw her […]
Cmdr Chris Hadfield does it again. In a fly-over Toronto in the ISS he snaps a picture of the city that’s beautiful, haunting and inspiring all at the same time. Tonight’s Finale: Toronto, Ontario. Interesting the different things that become more visible at night. pic.twitter.com/e9qO2JSkPU
Toronto residents are banding together to stave off the charms of the glittering, gambling gambit (sorry) being splashed all over town. And, Your Working Girl is happy to report, the grassroots action is picking up steam. (Not that she minds a dainty hand of blackjack now and then. She doesn’t, but there’s no need to […]
Your Working Girl witnessed four women from the Canadian Armed Forces gracefully rappel from the rafters at the Leafs vs Jets game on March 16th what in what was billed as a tribute to the Canadian Armed Forces. “It means so much to the forces to have the people in the stands behind them,” said […]
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