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Check out these links for some great Canadian charities:

HomeSense / Winners are partnering with the Canadian Women's Foundation for their major campaign to help stop violence against women.

The campaign has several components. To help you can:

• Purchase a "Shelter from the Storm" t-shirt sold exclusively at Winners and HomeSense stores; nationwide for $14.99 (while supplies last).
  
• Donate $1 at your local Winners and HomeSense and print your name on an “Umbrella” decal to be displayed in the store.
• Shop ‘til it Stops: On May 10^th Winners and HomeSense will be hosting “Shop ‘til it Stops”, across Canada sales event in which a percentage of the day’s sales will go to "Shelter from the Storm". Radio stations across Canada will broadcast radio-thons to share survivors’ stories and raise awareness of the issue.

May 10th seems to be a major day in the campaign so make sure to check your local radio stations or donate at any Bank of Montreal.

For more info check out:
http://www.homesense.ca/en/giving.asp

http://www.canadianwomen.org/Eng/VPmicrosite2006/en_intro.html


Keep in mind that according to the Canadian Women's Foundation website:

• Every minute of every day, a Canadian woman or child is sexually assaulted
• Half of Canadian women (51%) have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16
• One in four Canadian women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime
• A minimum of 1 million children in Canada have witnessed violence against their mothers by their fathers or father figures

Those are some powerful statistics.



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Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and their associated Self-Esteem Fund

There are a lot of different promotions if you go to www.dove.ca including the chance to get a free t-shirt (after you buy 2 dove products and send them the reciept with a cheque to cover the shipping), a great real beauty commercial, contests etc. There are also a tonne of chances for you to contribute to their self esteem fund (including easy things like sending your friends the link to the commercial). All relatively painless.

I ordered my t-shirt just this afternoon and I'm very excited for it's arrival.

For the t-shirt go directly here:

http://www.dove.ca/promotions/tshirt