Category Archives: Health

by | October 2, 2015 · 8:50 pm

Samaritan News 10 Pack: Blue Jays, Big Sean, Black Sabbath, More

Big Sean

Big Sean

I’ve been helping do up some news stories for the charitably-minded music-ish site Samaritan Mag lately so I decided to collect some of my latest pieces all in one place.

Here are 10 of these stories…

Guns With History Viral Video Continues To Affect Viewers

Young And The Restless Cast Members Coming To Toronto To Support Hospital

Big Sean’s Social Message Wins MTV Video Music Award

Blue Jays Race For Rookies Scavenger Hunt Helps Kids Play Ball

Harry Belafonte, Geena Davis Among Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award Recipients

Musician Nurse Cycling Across Canada To Support David Suzuki Blue Dot Plan

Gord Bamford Golf Event Raises Half-Million For Charity

Late Jazz Great Oscar Peterson Possessions Being Auctioned For World Vision

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor Contribute Music To Unique Peace Tracks Project

Nickelback Guitarist and Wife Undertake South Sudan Basic Needs Challenge

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by | July 23, 2015 · 10:34 pm

Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Southpaw’ Workout

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal’s new boxing movie Southpaw has been subject to intense scrutiny from the fight community.

One area they’re particularly intrigued by is Gyllenhaal’s workout regime.

In true method actor form he committed to his role.

Sarah wrote about the ways Gyllenhaal did so in an article for Fightland.

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by | July 1, 2015 · 10:04 am

Guitars 4 Vets Helps Soldiers With PTSD

A Guitars 4 Vets lesson

A Guitars 4 Vets lesson

The folks at Guitars 4 Vets Canada have a pretty simple mission — put a guitar in the hands of veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or other disabilities.

Jim Lowther, the man behind the program, says this simple act is life-changing for someone who’s suffering.

I spoke to him about this form of self-help for Samaritan Mag.

Head over there to read the full interview.

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by | June 30, 2015 · 7:49 pm

Wear Plaid For Dad Explained

Don Cherry wearing plaid

Don Cherry wearing plaid

If you noticed more-than-normal numbers of folks geared up in plaid leading up to Father’s Day there’s an explanation.

Prostate Cancer Canada kicked off a new campaign called Wear Plaid For Dad to coincide with the day. Like the title suggests, it mostly involves the act of wearing plaid. For a good cause.

In an article for Samaritan Mag I spoke to Prostate Cancer Canada’s Rocco Rossi who explained what the whole campaign was about.

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by | June 13, 2015 · 5:27 pm

The Peculiar Encounter With David Cronenberg’s Ghost

Empty movie theater

Empty movie theater

Flea bites. Sleep daze. Antihistamine reactions. Hallucinatory appearances by David Cronenberg.

They were all things that happened during one of Sarah’s strangest experiences at a movie theater.

She recalled the details of her weird trip as part of a compilation feature on Consequence Of Sound about people’s Most Memorable Movie Theater Experiences.

Sarah still has no idea whether the Cronenberg she saw was real or not.

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