Fleury comeback fizzles
That's what fans of Theoren Fleury have to be asking after the 41-year old's comeback was doused by the Calgary Flames . Fleury seemed at peace on Monday when he announced that ...
Source: Sportsnet.ca
Fleury comeback fizzles
That's what fans of Theoren Fleury have to be asking after the 41-year old's comeback was doused by the Calgary Flames . Fleury seemed at peace on Monday when he announced that ...
Source: Sportsnet.ca
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TORONTO - Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy says he's looking forward to playing a free show at the Vancouver Olympics next year, but he was conflicted as to whether he really wanted the ...
Source: Squamish Chief
MOST READ LOCAL STORIES
TORONTO - Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy says he's looking forward to playing a free show at the Vancouver Olympics next year, but he was conflicted as to whether he really wanted the ...
Source: Squamish Chief
Amy's dad says no
LONDON -- Amy Winehouse's father says Britain is wasting money on drug addicts who are too quick to say "yes, yes, yes" to rehab. Mitch Winehouse told lawmakers in Britain ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Winehouse's dad: Money wasted on drugs addicts
LONDON — Amy Winehouse’s father says Britain is wasting money on drug addicts who are too quick to say “yes, yes, yes” to rehab. Mitch Winehouse told lawmakers on ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Lead me to Calgary
The next installment in our occasional series. A PASSION FOR SAVING Canada’s lost souls inspires urban congregation to share the hope of Christ with its troubled community ...
Source: Christian Chronicle
Searching for happiness
When Lance Auger smiles, his face wrinkles up like a dried prune and his lips curl inward over toothless gums. Swaddled in layers of clothing, Auger perched himself along West Side ...
Source: Cochrane Times
Holidays hard time of year
I recently lost a close friend of mine to drug abuse. Christmas was her favourite time, and it is going to be hard on me and her family. She wasn't a bad person, she just made some ...
Source: Calgary Sun
International Capsules: Ex-NFL commish looks for solutions at USOC
He once oversaw one of America’s most successful sports operations. Now, he’s trying to find solutions for one of its most dysfunctional. Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue ...
Source: Brownsville Herald
McCarty faces new grind
Say what you will about Darren Mc-Carty. But this is as true as any of the frailties, the naivete or the excesses that conspired to bring him to the brink of financial ruin, throw ...
Source: canada.com
Gentleman detective goes rogue
LONDON — There’s no mystery to Robert Downey Jr.’s good mood. “Sometimes,” the 44-year-old actor tells journalists assembled for this day’s news conference, “you just ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Holidays hard time of year
I recently lost a close friend of mine to drug abuse. Christmas was her favourite time, and it is going to be hard on me and her family. She wasn't a bad person, she just made some ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Tyler in rehab for painkiller addiction
In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 photo, Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler speaks at a news conference before the start of the Legends Ride, in Deadwood, S.D. Tyler says in a statement ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Fleury's blog rips into Flames
Somehow, between acting lessons, reading movie scripts, pawning his book, recording a country music song and shooting the accompanying video, Theo Fleury managed to write a blog ...
Source: SLAM! Sports
Best foot-in-mouth forward
Theo Fleury is making news again after a controversial blog entry on his website -- theofleury14.com -- took some shots at the Flames and a former teammate . The entry has since ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Letters: February 9
Re: “Sharper approach to drug addiction needed,” Mindelle Jacobs, (Feb. 7). Her clean needle approach is not the solution. It aggravates the problem. The felon continues his ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Chad Conley has survived through thick and thin
In discussing the all-consuming nature of being a competitive figure skater, Chad Conley mentions a Facebook group he belongs to: "Sorry I Can't, I Have Skating." The title sums up ...
Source: Outsports.com
Aerosmith ready to rock this summer
After turmoil that included public squabbling, threats of a lineup change and a rehab stint, Aerosmith is back and ready to rock. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have announced ...
Source: Owen Sound Sun Times
Aerosmith to tour with Steven Tyler
NEW YORK - After turmoil that included public squabbling, threats of a lineup change and a rehab stint, Aerosmith is back and ready to rock. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have ...
Source: Jam! Showbiz
Aerosmith spat set aside for new tour
After turmoil that included public squabbling, threats of a lineup change and a rehab stint, Aerosmith is back and ready to rock. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have announced ...
Source: CBC News
Skiing Through Injury: Braced for a painful run
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French pedagogue considered the father of the modern Olympics, believed the essential guiding principle of the Games should be the struggle, "not to ...
Source: Vancouver Sun
Winter Olympics Gives Reasons To Love Sports
Sports are a business. They are entertainment. They are a competition, but it is just a game. We don’t try to attach a deeper meaning to sports because we either think there isn ...
Source: Bleacherreport.com
Corey Haim dead at 38: reports
Toronto-born actor and '80s heartthrob Corey Haim died Wednesday morning from a possible drug overdose, TMZ.com is reporting. The website says the Los Angeles police were called to ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Winter Olympics Gives Reasons To Love Sports
Sports are a business. They are entertainment. They are a competition, but it is just a game. We don’t try to attach a deeper meaning to sports because we either think there isn ...
Source: Bleacherreport.com
About 600 drug addicts escape rehab camp
HANOI, Vietnam — Nearly 600 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation camp overpowered security guards and escaped, an official said Monday. At least two-thirds of them were ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Brand suffered breakdown on TV
Russell Brand has described his short-lived British comedy show RE:BRAND as a "cry for help" - insisting he suffered a "mental breakdown" while filming the series at the height of ...
Source: Calgary Sun
About 600 drug addicts escape rehab camp
HANOI, Vietnam — Nearly 600 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation camp overpowered security guards and escaped, an official said Monday. At least two-thirds of them were ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Brand suffered breakdown on TV
Russell Brand has described his short-lived British comedy show RE:BRAND as a "cry for help" - insisting he suffered a "mental breakdown" while filming the series at the height of ...
Source: Calgary Sun
EMS union head hopes charges not laid in tampering case
Should the culprit behind the tampering of narcotics supplies on ambulances be a paramedic struggling with drug addiction, the head of their union hopes they get help rather than ...
Source: Calgary Sun
About 600 drug addicts escape rehab camp
HANOI, Vietnam — Nearly 600 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation camp overpowered security guards and escaped, an official said Monday. At least two-thirds of them were ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Who needed a new Stone Temple Pilots album?
A lot has happened in the nine years since the last Stone Temple Pilots record was released. There have been new bands, fueds and stints in drug rehab, but somehow Scott Weiland ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Stone Temple Pilots bring maturity to road and first new album in ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - As he reflects on Stone Temple Pilots' history, frontman Scott Weiland quietly breaks into song: "The long and winding road." His band mates — guitarist ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Lohan ordered to wear ankle bracelet, stay in L.A.
Lindsay Lohan may have lost another movie role thanks to her extended stay at the Cannes Film Festival in France. A judge has forbidden the actress from leaving Los Angeles. Lohan ...
Source: Calgary Sun
HOT DISH: Drama Continues for Mindy McCready
( CMT Hot Dish is a weekly feature written by veteran columnist Hazel Smith. Author of the cookbook, Hazel's Hot Dish: Cookin' With Country Stars , she also hosts CMT's Southern ...
Source: CMT
McGee crushes McCray to win TUF Season 11
LAS VEGAS -- Middleweight Court (The Crusher) McGee, who battled drug and alcohol abuse before taking up mixed martial arts, defeated Kris (Savage) McCray to win Season 11 of "The ...
Source: Sportsnet.ca
Mental health and military
Stuart Langridge appears on the TV screen, a young and confident soldier. It's 2003, and the tank gunner with Lord Strathcona's Horse, an armoured regiment based in Edmonton, is ...
Source: Calgary Herald
Taking the TUF road: middleweight Court (The Crusher) McGee happy to ...
It's been almost five years since Court McGee died. And the mixed martial arts fighter from Orem, Utah, is still talking about it. It was a Sunday and McGee had the day off. He was ...
Source: Winnipeg Free Press
Taking the TUF road: McGee happy to be alive
It's been almost five years since Court McGee died. And the mixed martial arts fighter from Orem, Utah, is still talking about it. It was a Sunday and McGee had the day off. He was ...
Source: Sportsnet.ca
The Canadian Press News Agenda for June 16
(Canadian Press Broadcast Wire (Canada) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) EDITORS: Following is a list of news events for June 16 as of 9:18 p.m. ET: x-denotes wire, y-denotes picture, z ...
Source: TMCnet
Mexico mourns yet another slain Norteno singer
MEXICO CITY - Norteno singer Sergio Vega was shot dead in a northern state that has given rise to many of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins, joining a recent string of murdered ...
Source: Metronews.ca
After discord, rehab, Tyler back with Aerosmith, says band has never ...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Steven Tyler can laugh about it now. The fall off the stage that caused the cancellation of Aerosmith's 2009 summer tour. His stint in rehab for prescription drug ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Take a walk on the wild side
Despite his bad-boy ways, Russell Brand, centre, has managed to keep his star power, while Amy Winehouse, left, and Britney Spears, right, both serve as poster-girls for stars gone ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Summarizing the reflections on former Red Wings enforcer Bob Probert's ...
Former Red Wings enforcer Bob Probert passed away at 45 years of age on Monday, dying after collapsing on a boat in Lake St. Clair with his family. News of his death shook the Red ...
Source: MLive.com
Lohan judge creating a stir
HOLLYWOOD -- She's still got the whole town talking. No, not Lindsay Lohan and her expressive manicure, whose anguished courtroom performance was deemed probably her strongest ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Lindsay Lohan enters rehab
Lindsay Lohan has entered rehab a week before she's due to start a 90-day jail sentence for violating her parole on a 2007 DUI arrest. The actress arrived at her new attorney ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Many US docs don't blow whistle on colleagues
CHICAGO - Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle. A new survey finds that many American physicians ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Summarizing the reflections on former Red Wings enforcer Bob Probert's ...
Former Red Wings enforcer Bob Probert passed away at 45 years of age on Monday, dying after collapsing on a boat in Lake St. Clair with his family. News of his death shook the Red ...
Source: MLive.com
Despite short jail stint, Lohan won't be back soon
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Lindsay Lohan's time in jail will be short, but her time away from the public eye will be much longer. Sheriff's officials say the actress will spend only ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Confetti punctuates circus around Lohan surrender
LYNWOOD, Calif. - Hitting bottom under Hollywood's glare, Lindsay Lohan began serving jail time Tuesday for a probation violation that underlined the starlet's inability to put a ...
Source: Metronews.ca
Second lawyer quits Lohan case
Lindsay Lohan has been left without legal representation again - top lawyer Robert Shapiro has quit her case just hours before the actress is due to start her stint behind bars. O ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Investigation of McCanns' disappearance focuses on 'person of interest ...
A massive search continues this weekend to find Lyle and Marie McCann as well as a “person of interest” allegedly linked to their mysterious disappearance. RCMP want to ...
Source: The Province
Lohan judge creating a stir
HOLLYWOOD -- She's still got the whole town talking. No, not Lindsay Lohan and her expressive manicure, whose anguished courtroom performance was deemed probably her strongest ...
Source: Calgary Sun
Fort Smith business leader Jim Hanna dies
Jim Hanna, patriarch of Fort Smith-based Hanna Oil & Gas, passed away Monday night (July 19). He was 76. Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m., Friday (July 23), at St. Johns ...
Source: The City Wire