Our Commitment to Giving Back
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
Toronto Cupcake works with many neighborhood and community organizations in the GTA. Since opening in 2010, Toronto Cupcake has been committed to assisting by donating cupcakes, time, and care to many charitable causes. We update this page with news about events and organizations we are involved with.
JUNE - PRIDE Month
- The LGBTQ community celebrates in a number of different ways across the globe. Various events are held during this special month as a way of recognising the influence LGBTQ people have had around the world.
- Why was June chosen? Because it is when the Stonewall Riots – NYC took place, back in 1969.
- In 1970 the first Gay Day picnic was held in Toronto which eventually gave way to the Pride Parade and Pride month. Covid has put a damper on the Parade in 2020 an 2021 but the Toronto 2019 parade had a little over 1 million people in attendence. Lets hope 2022 brings out even more supporters and celebrators of the LGBTQ community.
- As well as being a month long celebration, Pride month is also an opportunity to peacefully protest and raise political awareness of current issues facing the community.
May 5th National Day of Awareness of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Indigenous women make up 16% of all female homicide victims, and 11% of missing women, even though Indigenous people make up 4.3% of the population of Canada.
- Violence against Indigenous women and girls is systemic and a national crisis that requires urgent, informed and collaborative action.
- Indigenous women are three times more likely than non-Indigenous women to be victims of violence.
- Current public data on MMIWG oversimplifies and underrepresents the scale of the issue, yet still demonstrates a complex and pervasive pattern of violence against Indigenous women and girls who are often targeted because of their gender and Indigenous identity.
- The 2014 RCMP Operational Overview notes that police recorded 1,017 incidents of Aboriginal female homicides between 1980 and 2012 and 164 missing Aboriginal female investigations dating back to 1952. There have been a number of reports indicating numbers are significantly higher.
- From 2001 to 2014 the average rate of homicides involving Indigenous female victims was four times higher than that of homicides involving non-Indigenous female victims.