I have a con­fes­sion to make: I am a for­mer Catholic school­girl.
I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blas­phem­ing ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor re­view and crit­i­cized the film for “flirt­ing with mod­ern doc­trines that pro­mote the wor­ship of na­ture as a sub­sti­tute for re­li­gion,” my im­me­di­ate thought was, “Wow, someone’s […]

Last month, I wrote a press re­lease for a fundraiser a friend of mine is or­ga­niz­ing, which will take place on January 19. As the date of the event nears, we’ve been try­ing to get the word out through me­dia pitches, so­cial net­work­ing sites and word-of-mouth mar­ket­ing. Any ex­po­sure or me­dia at­ten­tion is more than wel­come.
Today, a free­lance jour­nal­ist based […]

With the New Year comes new res­o­lu­tions, goals you set that are meant to give your life struc­ture and mean­ing against the dol­drums that we call “January”, “February” and “Smarch”. We al­low our­selves to in­dulge in so many sins dur­ing the hol­i­days be­cause we re­ally be­lieve that on January 1^st, we will crawl out of […]

There’s one week left to Christmas and if you’re like me, you’ve made arrange­ments with your loved ones to a) not ex­change presents; or b) buy small, yet mean­ing­ful gifts for each other. For the rest of you with long shop­ping lists, here’s a sug­ges­tion – give the gift of na­ture.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) runs al­ter­na­tive gift-giving pro­grams to help alleviate […]

I’m do­ing PR for this fundraiser and am proud to be at­tached to such a great cause. Tickets will sell out fast, so get yours now at www​.hugh​sroom​.com.

PRESS RELEASE — December 15, 2009

Comics Kick Cancer to the Curb with The ‘C’ Word 

Martha Chaves, Sandra Shamas part of tal­ented line-up for com­edy fundraiser

Toronto, ON – The ‘C’ word. Some peo­ple cringe when […]