FFL on CBC

On Friday November 27, 2009 the FFL team had the privileged of shooting an exclusive interview with the CBC's Nil Koksal.

The interview, which took place at the Hospital for Sick Children, will be featured this Sunday November 29 between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. and then again between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. on CBC's news network (channel 26). A special thank you goes out to Nik, Mike, Caroline, Susan, Christine, Danielle and everyone else who made this piece possible.




Be sure to check out the CBC on Sunday as FFL continues to fight Cystic Fibrosis and Cancer.

Stay tuned for more details!

The FFL crew

Troubling News From Stats Can

According to a Statistics Canada report released Monday, Toronto charities had to make do with considerably less last year.

The value of donations to charities in 2008 fell 12 per cent in Toronto, to $1.8 billion from $2.1 billion, based on income tax returns.

Ironically, the number of overall donors in the city climbed by 2.4 per cent, from 900,290 to 922,310, according to the annual report on charitable donations.