Posts Categorized: Community Features

Beer Store Canada: Leukemia Bottle Drive, May 26th & 27th

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***REPOST: Since the long week­end is here!*** Dur­ing the last week­end of May, con­ve­niently the week­end after May 2–4, The Beer Store is host­ing an event where you can donate your emp­ties (or cash) to The Leukemia & Lym­phoma Soci­ety of Canada! 100% of the pro­ceeds will go to this char­ity. Last year, they raised over… Read more »

Buffalo David Bitton Canada: 20% Off Regular Priced Denim + $10 Donation To The Cure Foundation

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Buf­falo Canada is offer­ing 20% off all reg­u­lar priced men’s and women’s jeans on May 15, 2012.  Excludes mer­chan­dise pur­chased at liq­ui­da­tion stores.  Buf­falo will donate $10 to the Cure Foun­da­tion for every pair of jeans sold today (May 15). The Cure Foun­da­tion raises funds for breast can­cer research.  National Denim Day is their main fundrais­ing… Read more »

Starbucks Canada: Free Coffee Or Tea When You Bring In Your Own Tumbler On Earth Day *April 22*

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Star­bucks Canada is offer­ing free brewed cof­fee or tea when you bring in your own tum­bler on Earth Day (April 22, 2012).  This is a great way to score a free­bie and remind us to use reuse­able prod­ucts.  Star­bucks also reminds us that any day you bring in your own tum­bler you can donate the $0.10… Read more »

Costco Canada: Free Oral-B & Crest Samples When You Meet With A Dental Hygienist + Instant Savings

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Costco Canada is offer­ing free Oral-B and Crest sam­ples when you meet with a den­tal hygien­ist to dis­cuss oral care.  Click here for more infor­ma­tion on this offer. Costco is also offer­ing instant sav­ings on many oral care prod­ucts.  Click here to view all the dis­counts available.

2012 Retail as a Career Scholarship Program

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We have a diverse group of peo­ple who fre­quent the SC blog, includ­ing stu­dents!  A good por­tion of our view­ers are those who are study­ing to fur­ther (or start) their careers while liv­ing on very mea­gre bud­gets.  Post sec­ondary edu­ca­tion requires a lot of sac­ri­fices and a lit­tle money “bonus” is always help­ful! A major… Read more »

Canadian Tire Launches New Rewards Program

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Move over Cana­dian Tire paper money, there’s a new card in town.  Yes, after 51 years Cana­dian Tire has decided to add to their loy­alty pro­gram by pro­vid­ing con­sumers with a lit­tle plas­tic.  The paper money will not be replaced, but it cer­tainly will be chal­lenged by its more durable coun­ter­part.  The new Cana­dian Tire “Money” Advantage… Read more »

Canadian Events: “Gift From The Heart” — Free Dental Hygiene Care At Participating Locations *February 11, 2012*

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Here is a descrip­tion of the event directly from the “Gift From The Heart” web­site: “On Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 11, 2012 Reg­is­tered Den­tal Hygien­ists all across Canada will open their hearts and clin­ics to pro­vide oral health care to the pub­lic who may be finan­cially unable to receive den­tal hygiene care or who have dif­fi­culty access­ing… Read more »

National Sweater Day Canada: “Turn Down The Heat, Turn Up Your Sweater” On February 9, 2012

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The WWF Canada is once again cel­e­brat­ing National Sweater Day pre­sented by Loblaw Com­pa­nies Lim­ited on Feb­ru­ary 9, 2012.  Every­one is encour­aged to turn down their ther­mo­stat and throw on a sweater to reduce res­i­den­tial heat­ing.  The WWF claims “If every Cana­dian turned down their ther­mo­stat by two degrees Cel­sius each win­ter, 2.2 mega­tonnes of car­bon… Read more »

Recipe Schmecipe: Spiced Potato and Ground Beef with Peas (Aloo Keema)

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I don’t know about you but all I want to do in win­ter is to hiber­nate, eat hot com­fort food and curl up with a good book. And although most of us make the New Year’s res­o­lu­tion to lose weight, it is kind of hard to achieve our goals when the cold, bleak win­ter prac­ti­cally… Read more »

Smart Canucks Canada Free Giveaway Mini Contest: Amazon Gift Card

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5 days till Christ­mas! Today’s mini give­away is a $30 Ama­zon elec­tronic gift­card. One lucky win­ner will receive the gift card via email from Smart Canucks after con­firm­ing the win and answer­ing a skill test­ing ques­tion. To enter sim­ply tell me what your favourite movie this year was. (Enter by com­ment­ing below on the blog. Please do not… Read more »

Recipe Schmecipe: Cheesy Herb Garlic Bread

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It’s win­ter and all you want is com­fort food and what bet­ter way to get that com­fort but from this deli­cious gar­lic bread. Eat it along­side a pip­ing hot bowl of chicken noo­dle soup and hope­fully you’ll be all set to brave the crowds on Box­ing Day. So, with­out fur­ther ado, here is the recipe: Cheesy… Read more »

Smart Canucks Free Contest Giveaway: Chapters Indigo Gift Card

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Sun­day.  One week ’til Christ­mas!  Today’s mini give­away is a $30 Chap­ters elec­tronic gift­card.  One lucky win­ner will receive the gift card via email from Smart Canucks after con­firm­ing the win and answer­ing a skill test­ing ques­tion. To enter sim­ply tell me what your favourite book this year was.  (Enter by com­ment­ing below on the… Read more »

Recipe Schmecipe: Cilantro-Yogurt Dip

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This dip recipe is delight­fully refresh­ing, sim­ple, and it’s also incred­i­bly healthy, espe­cially when you’re look­ing for a respite between all those Christ­mas cook­ies. It also requires only three ingre­di­ents: Plain yogurt or thick Greek yogurt (Plain yogurt can usu­ally be found on sale for $2 or less). Fresh cilantro (reg­u­larly $1 per bunch) and sea… Read more »

Umbra Warehouse Sale: Toronto & GTA, This Weekend!

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This week­end, Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 10th — Sun­day, Decem­ber 11th, the Umbra Ware­house Sale will be tak­ing place at the Inter­na­tional Cen­tre! It seems as though this place is gonna be a hub of action with the Para­suco, Fruits & Pas­sions, & The Crocs Sales all tak­ing place in the same build­ing. Finally, this pop­u­lar sale… Read more »

Boston Pizza Square One: Kids Holiday Party this Sunday, December 11th!

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This Sun­day, Decem­ber 11th, from 11am — 2pm, Boston Pizza Square One is throw­ing a Kids Hol­i­day Party! Kids Meals are only $3.99, they can make a craft and bring it home, plus they’ll receive a coupon for a FREE meal dur­ing their next visit to BP. This sounds like a great break if you’ll… Read more »

Recipe Schmecipe: Lazy Man’s Raspberry Pinwheels

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This recipe oozes lazi­ness mostly because it is dead sim­ple to make and only uses two ingre­di­ents (seri­ously!).  It’s great for those times when you’re bogged down in work or just not feel­ing up to spend­ing more time in the kitchen than nec­es­sary. More impor­tantly, it costs lit­er­ally next to noth­ing! Pills­bury Pie Crust (pur­chased… Read more »

Movember Canada: Raise $ for Prostate Cancer with your ‘stache!

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So it’s 1/3 of the way through Novem­ber … how are those crazy staches growin?! Movem­ber (for­merly known as Novem­ber) is a Mous­tache Grow­ing Char­ity Event held yearly dur­ing the month of Novem­ber to help raise money and aware­ness for Prostate Can­cer. Click here for the Cana­dian Movem­ber Site I already have a few friends who… Read more »