News Releases

- One of the largest fundraising events held during Toronto's Pride Week celebrations

- Toronto's Pride Week is one of the premier arts and cultural festivals in Canada and one of the largest Pride celebrations in the world with an estimated attendance of over 1.2 million people

- Including the 2012 race proceeds, the Pride and Remembrance Run has raised more than $800,000 for local charities that support the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community

More than one thousand soccer balls will be used to build world's largest soccer ball mosaic

- Day-long festival at Yonge-Dundas Square will be venue for Toronto attempt

- Each ball kicked into soccer net will be used to build record-setting mosaic and will generate a $30,000 donation to Kids Help Phone from BMO, from the AIR MILES(R) Reward Program-a LoyaltyOne program, and from MasterCard Worldwide

- Former Toronto FC player and current TFC Senior Academy Team Coach, Danny Dichio, and former Canadian National Team player and current Sportsnet personality, Kara Lang, will participate

Aboriginal People are the youngest and fastest growing segment of the Canadian population but continue to be over-represented among Canada's unemployed

- Growth rate amongst Canada's Aboriginal People almost twice the rate of the non-Aboriginal population

- Gap is Widening Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People With Post-Secondary Educations - 23 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population has a university degree, yet only 4 per cent of First Nations people have one.