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A limited edition compilation CD featuring tracks from Alan Frew of Glass Tiger fame, new wave legends The Spoons, Tarmac Adam featuring onetime Crowded House members Nick Seymour and the late Paul Hester, Toronto’s Bill Wood and the Woodies (formerly of Eye Eye), Carla Olsen (see collaborations w
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EMI Group has its rallied artists and songwriters to donate items for a massive eBay auction to raise funds for the Japanese Red Cross disaster relief efforts to help those affected by last month’s earthquake and tsunami. The multi-national music company will also match all funds raised from the "EMI Family 4 Japan" auction up to a maximum of one million euros ($1,392,182.64 CAD).
While the first phase of the auction featuring more than 200 items ends tomorrow (April 15), a second auction is already underway (ending April 21). Some of the very cool items up for bid include a 1987 Ferrari 412 as featured in Daft Punk’s film Electroma; Katy Perry’s cupcake trampoline from her current California Dreams world tour; a framed guitar signed by Coldplay and a triple platinum sales award from Canada for Viva La Vida; access to private concert rehearsal by Sting; three framed and signed prints of David Gilmour taken in Gdansk; more than 30 albums individually signed by David Bowie; a limited-edition Beatles’ Yellow Submarine Schwinn bicycle; a signed guitar from Norah Jones; the MacBook used by David Guetta to create the demos for One Love; framed handwritten lyrics from Brian Wilson; and a limited-edition Gorillaz lithograph signed by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn.
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Words cannot adequately describe the poverty and desperation of the Afghan people that I witnessed when I traveled to Afghanistan in March for a week long Team Canada tour to spend time with our Canadian soldiers. I didn’t realize how focused their mission was on improving the quality of life for these people, especially the women and children, trying to turn the tide of violence that has permeated their history for most of the 19th century.
Canada has a long history of helping people around the world; Bosnia, Cypress and Somalia to name a few. It will take generations to complete the task at hand in Afghanistan, I’m told, and will not be completed by the time we are scheduled to pull out in 2011.
The first order of business upon arriving at Kandahar Airfield (KAF) was a briefing from task force commander Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance about the mission’s objectives and overall progress. A major focus of the Canadian mission is humanitarian. Our troops are there to help establish some democracy and decency to the Afghan people, mostly women and children, he said.
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