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| A brother's pledge fulfilled
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
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The Gift: Raising $100,000 and climbingThe Cause: Red Meets Pink FoundationThe Reason: To find a cure for breast cancer and HIV/AidsWhen Mario Medeiros lost his sister Maria to breast cancer nearly 20 years ago, he vowed to do something in her honour.
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| A push for human rights
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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The Gift: $1-millionThe Cause: McGill UniversityThe Reason: To sponsor conferences on human rightsGordon Echenberg's devotion to human rights started when he was six years old.
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| A 'giving away' congregation
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
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The Gift: More than $3-millionThe Cause: Emmanuel College and other charitiesA couple of years ago, the congregation at Deer Park United Church in downtown Toronto faced a painful decision. Membership had fallen steadily for years and the congregation could no longer afford to maintain their 100-year old church. They decided to sell the building and worship at a nearby Presbyterian church.
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| An urban canoe trip helps send kids to camp
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
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The Gift: $56,000 and climbingThe Cause: Amici Camping CharityThe Reason: To help underprivileged children go to summer camp.A few years ago Willie Macrae and his friend Stuart Snyder were asked to join the board of Amici Camping Charity, a Toronto organization that helps send underprivileged children to summer camps. They'd both spent many summers at Kilcoo Camp near Minden, Ont., while growing up and they felt strongly about the benefits of that experience. But instead of becoming directors, they decided to do something else.
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| A swinging victory for Down syndrome
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
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The donor Jay InnesThe Gift: $250,000 and climbingThe Cause: Down Syndrome Association of the National Capital RegionShortly after their second child, Ashley, was born with Down syndrome, Jay Innes and his wife Lynn became involved with the Down Syndrome Association of the National Capital Region. At first, the organization supported itself on small gifts and fundraising events like bake sales.
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| A bona fide Prairie home companion
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
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The Gift: $7-million and climbingThe Cause: Health care and arts causes in SaskatchewanWhen Gordon Rawlinson was growing up in Prince Albert, Sask., he wanted nothing to do with his father's radio business. ''I was dead against it,'' he recalled.
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| Cycling the mountains for children's sports
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
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The Gift: $135,000 and climbingThe Cause: Sports programs for childrenA few years ago, long-time cyclists Mike Kuzik and Rob Jones decided to plot a journey through the mountains.
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| How a hot cocoa play left one trader holding the bag
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PAUL WALDIE
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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When British hedge fund manager Anthony Ward bought about $1-billion (U.S.) worth of cocoa beans last week, there was talk he was trying to corner the cocoa market and fears that chocolate lovers everywhere would face huge price hikes for their favourite treats.
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| A heartfelt hand for Peru's children
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
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The Gift: Creating Canadian Friends Of AniquemThe Reason: To help burned children in PeruWhen Murray Jones was posted to Peru in 1996 to help oversee a massive gas project for Royal Dutch Shell PLC, he and his wife, Karen, expected to be there a few years and return home. Instead they fell in love with the country and returned frequently after the gas project ended in 1998.
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| U.S. hits Black with $70-million tax bill
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PAUL WALDIE
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Friday, July 16, 2010
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Conrad Black has been hit with a $70-million (U.S.) tax bill from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which claims he failed to pay taxes on more than $116-million in income.
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| OLD DUTCH CHIPS BIG BEHIND BARS
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PAUL WALDIE
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Most companies love getting product endorsements and eagerly tout the news. But Old Dutch Foods Ltd. has kept one recent endorsement low key, perhaps because it involves convicts.Inmates at eight prisons across Alberta and Saskatchewan recently voted on which treats to stock in their prison snack bars. They voted for Old Dutch, giving the potato chip maker exclusive rights to supply all snack foods to the canteens, where prisoners spend their hard-earned cash. ''The inmates will be receiving the best price possible from the manufacturer,'' Corrections Services Canada said in statement last week announcing the deal. The one-year contract is worth about $400,000 and there is an option to renew it for two additional years.
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| Pedalling for Parkinson's
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
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The donor Paul CastonguayThe Gift: $20,000 and climbingThe Causes: Michael J. Fox Foundation, Toronto's Krembil Neuroscience CentreThe Reason: Research into Parkinson's diseaseWhen actor Michael J. Fox came to Toronto last September to discuss his battle with Parkinson's disease and launch his charitable foundation in Canada, Paul Castonguay couldn't wait to hear him.
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| Canary seed farmers singing an unhappy tune
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PAUL WALDIE
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Friday, July 09, 2010
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Saskatchewan farmer Larry Frisky has seen just about everything this spring - tornadoes, heavy rain and lightning storms so fierce one bolt knocked out his home telephone.Now Mr. Frisky and thousands of other growers are facing an even bigger challenge, a trade war with Mexico that could block sales of their key crop - canary seed. ''It's just fun and games, isn't it?'' Mr. Frisky said with a laugh on his cellphone.
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| Black seeks bail pending new appeal
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PAUL WALDIE
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
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Conrad Black is asking to be released on bail pending a review of his criminal convictions by an appeal court.Lawyers for Lord Black filed the application on Tuesday a couple of weeks after the United States Supreme Court redefined a key legal theory prosecutors used to convict him.
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| Hitting the links for Multiple Sclerosis
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
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The Gift: $178,500 and climbingThe Cause: Multiple Sclerosis Society of CanadaWhen Greg Kowalski became president of the Vancouver Island Golf Superintendents Association a couple of years ago, he wanted the organization to do more than simply meet a few times a year.
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| An unlikely way to sop up BP's oil spill: peat moss
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
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Peat moss has been used by gardeners for years to help fortify soil. But Anthony Greaves hopes the moss can be put to another use as well - cleaning up Florida beaches hit by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Why don't we call it $73 a barrel? (hiccup)
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PAUL WALDIE
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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When British broker Stephen Perkins returned home drunk from a weekend golf outing last year, he didn't fall asleep or pass out, he started trading oil futures. Lots of oil futures.
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| In deep water drilling, a delicate dance
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Shawn McCarthy and Paul Waldie
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
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When the Ocean Ranger drilling platform sank in a raging Valentine's Day storm off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982, it claimed 84 lives and scarred a generation of Newfoundlanders, including a young sea captain named Mark Turner who helped in the futile search for survivors.
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| Black calls ruling 'immensely gratifying'
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PAUL WALDIE
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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Conrad Black has won a partial victory in his prolonged battle to overturn his criminal convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice, but it is unlikely the former newspaper owner will be getting out of jail any time soon.
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| Biovail merger a meeting of minds
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PAUL WALDIE
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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When Bill Wells and Michael Pearson met a few months ago to talk about merging their respective drug companies, Biovail Corp. and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, they had a lot in common.
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| Paying tribute to a life-changing experience
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
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The Gift: $5-millionThe Cause: Crescent School, TorontoThe Reason: To help build a new academic wing.When Ming Wai Lau was nearing the end of his high school education in Hong Kong he asked his parents if he could finish his studies abroad. He knew exactly where he wanted to go - Toronto.
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| Royal Mail CEO job will be 'daunting'
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PAUL WALDIE
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Friday, June 18, 2010
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It probably wasn't the way Moya Greene wanted to close out her tenure as chief executive officer of Canada Post Corp.During a tour of the post office's new $100-million plant in Winnipeg a couple of weeks ago, Ms. Greene twisted her ankle, damaging some ligaments. When company chairman Marc Courtois joked that the plant had barely started operating and it already had a workplace injury, Ms. Greene quipped that no one had accounted ''for the stupidity of the CEO.''
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| Buffett and Gates issue billionaire challenge: Give half away
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PAUL WALDIE
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have launched what may be the largest fundraising campaign ever conceived - $600-billion (U.S.).The two billionaires have already pledged, or given away, most of their fortunes and now they are pushing other billionaires to donate at least half their wealth.
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| A mining executive digs deep to preserve history
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PAUL WALDIE
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
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The Gift:$1.7-millionThe Cause:The B.C. Museum of MiningThe Reason:To help renovate the historic mining siteFor years anyone driving north from Vancouver to Whistler, B.C., couldn't help but notice the dilapidated building that ran along the side of a mountain like a giant staircase. The 20-storey structure was once the heart of the Britannia mine which at its peak in the 1920s was the largest copper mine in the Commonwealth.
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