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Our Lady Peace lead frontman Raine Maida spent countless hours in Vaughan in his youth. He returns to inspire other local young people to pursue their dreams.
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4The event happens Sunday, June 17 at the
Hilton Garden Inn, 3201 Hwy. 7, from 10 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
4Sharing their success stories that day are Our
Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, CP24 crime
specialist Sue Sgambati, Bridgepoint Group CEO
Frank Carnevale and Dr. Jonathan Cardella, a cardiovascular surgeon at Sunnybrook Hospital.
4For more information, visit inspiretoronto.com
or www.facebook.com/inspire.to.
by Adam Martin-Robbins
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Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida
spent countless hours in Vaughan during his
younger days between working at construction sites, playing golf and hanging out with
his bandmates at a local eatery after recording sessions.
Now, the 42-year-old singer/songwriter
returns to inspire local youth to pursue their
dreams.
Mr. Maida is among a handful of successful Canadians sharing their stories at Inspire
2012 — taking place Sunday, June 17 at the
Hilton Garden Inn, 3201 Hwy. 7, from 10 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. Joining him are CP24 crime specialist Sue Sgambati, Bridgepoint Group CEO
Frank Carnevale, and Dr. Jonathan Cardella,
Luciano Volpe founded the Inspire series to empower young people by having Canadian leaders share their stories.
a cardiovascular surgeon at Sunnybrook Hospital.
The free event is open to all youth, but you
must register in advance at www.inspiretoronto.com.
The idea behind Inspire 2012, founded
by Vaughan’s Luciano Volpe, is to empower
young people by having Canadian leaders,
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“I’m really looking forward to this kind of
a unique event,” said Mr. Maida, who signed
on, in part, because of the involvement of his
friend, ET Canada host Rick Campanelli, who
spoke last year and serves as emcee this year.
If the interview Mr. Maida gave The Citizen is any indication there’s bound to a lot of
talk about getting outside your comfort zone,
shunning apathy and being open to change.
Mr. Maida’s band landed its first record
deal while he was wrapping up his studies
at the University of Toronto and, as a result,
he got to travel the world as performer in his
early 20s.
A few years later, he became involved
with War Child, a network of humanitarian
organizations that help children affected by
armed conflict.
Through that organization, he visited a
few of the world’s wartorn nations.
“Those profound things in your life, you’re
very lucky if they get to happen to you early
on and I was,” he said. “Definitely for me,
it gave me a different sense of myself and
a different sense of Toronto and a different
sense of Canada and a different sense of the
planet.”
Mr. Maida believes exposing yourself to
new experiences and challenging yourself is
vital, especially for today’s youth.
“My whole feeling on culture these days
is that it’s very divided, it’s very polarized,”
he said. “... It’s very easy to get caught in all
the trappings of our culture (and) the apathy
that goes along with a lot of it ... and being
involved and being engaged in your own life
and the life outside of yours, it’s never been
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held more at a premium than
today.”
Given the event takes place on
Father’s Day during Italian heritage
month, Mr. Maida may also share
some tales about growing up in
Toronto as the son of an Italian
immigrant.
“The work ethic that (my father)
showed me, rather than talked to
me about, just day in and day, out
was invaluable to me,” said the
father of three boys. “I’ve taken it
to every task in my life, whether it’s
raising my kids or making music
or being an advocate for mental
health or War Child or any of those
other charities. All that stuff you
have to be tireless.”
He’ll also likely shed some light
on the other values and skills that
helped him achieve success.
“They’re saying for new students
coming out of high school now,
you’ll have 13 careers in your life. I
think there’s a lot of value in understanding that,” Mr. Maida said.
“Whatever path someone chooses
and how many careers they switch,
I think there’s some core values and
skill sets that you need to be able
to navigate those waters. And that
was something, through music and
(other) opportunities, I was able to
grasp early on, which has been a
DUSTIN RABIN PHOTO
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida will share his personal story at Inspire 2012.
huge benefit to me.”
Since Mr. Volpe launched Inspire
last June, it has grown by leaps and
bounds.
The inaugural event attracted
more than 150 people and although
the target audience was youth aged
18-24, kids as young as nine and
grandparents as old as 82 showed
up, Mr. Volpe said.
Given its initial success, the
organizing committee decided to
hold three mini-Inspire sessions
at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, York
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Those sessions proved wildly
popular as well and helped boost
the number of student volunteers
involved in helping organize the
event, Mr. Volpe said.
The event’s success also attracted a number of sponsors.
The companies and organizations supporting Inspire include
featured sponsors Scotiabank and
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A new advisory board was also
created.
It includes a number of highprofile Canadians including Mr.
Campanelli, lead actor on hit television show Flashpoint Enrico Colantoni, national food editor at Sun
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“We’re pretty excited. We’ve really built a large base,” Mr. Volpe said.
“We are building this thing through
a consensus and the enthusiasm
of those involved. ... The idea was
to grow this thing organically and
that’s what happened.”
Mr. Volpe said the plan is to continue expanding Inspire in order to
reach a wider audience.
“It’s all about building a foundation for something much more
formal, widespread and profound,”
he said. “We want to make this
the focal point for leadership for
youth.”
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