TORONTO, Sept. 30 /CNW/ - Canadian Tire and Associate Dealers donated $50,000 to the Help for Home Radiothon organized by VOCM Cares which is raising funds to help the victims of Hurricane Igor in Newfoundland and Labrador.

When Dealers of the Canadian Tire stores in the province heard about the radiothon, they immediately stepped up to donate $25,000, and Canadian Tire Jumpstart ^® matched their donation with another $25,000.

"Canadian Tire is deeply committed to communities where we live, work and serve and, in their hour of need, this donation is our small way of helping local residents who have been affected by the hurricane," said Mike Arnett, President, Canadian Tire Retail.

Canadian Tire stores in Newfoundland and Labrador that donated to the telethon include:

About Canadian Tire
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSX: CTC.a, CTC) is one of Canada's most shopped general retailers with 482 Canadian Tire stores across the country. Our core retail and automotive operation is strengthened by PartSource, an automotive parts speciality chain; Canadian Tire Petroleum, one of the country's largest independent retailers of gasoline; Mark's, under the banner "Clothes That Work," a leading retailer of men's, women's and work apparel; and Canadian Tire Financial Services, which has issued approximately four million Canadian Tire MasterCard credit cards. More than 58,000 Canadians work across Canadian Tire's organization from coast-to-coast in the enterprise's retail, financial services and petroleum businesses.