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Toronto Concert To Fight SARS Fears

 

Canadian acts Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, the Tragically Hip, Sum 41, Our Lady Peace, Glenn Lewis, and Remy Shand are confirmed for a June 21 concert to be held at Toronto's Skydome and the adjacent Air Canada Centre. The concert, announced today by Ontario cabinet ministers Jim Flaherty and Brian Coburn, is being staged as a means to combat the city's economic and tourism problems in the wake of an outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

 

Tickets for the event will go on sale tomorrow (May 29) via Ticketmaster Canada. "We want summer to start with a real bang, something that's going to bring a lot of livelihood, rockin' and poppin' and all that," Coburn said today.

 

A video link setup between both venues, which have a combined capacity of 70,000 will enable everyone to see the performances. An unnamed major television network has also become involved with the event and extensive media coverage in North America is expected.

 

Toronto's tourism industry has lost approximately $1 billion (U.S. $763 million) due to SARS-related cancellations. The disease has caused 27 deaths in the Toronto area. After lifting a travel advisory earlier this month, the World Health Organization recently returned Toronto to a list of "areas with recent local transmission of SARS" but no new travel advisory has been issued.

 

In related news, organizers are still trying to find necessary funding in order to lure the Rolling Stones for a show in Toronto in late July. Approximately two-thirds of the needed funding, estimated at between $10-11 million, has been provided from the private sector and various levels of government. A proposed show would take place July 29, with the Downsview Air Force base as a potential venue.

 

 

-- Jason MacNeil, Toronto

Fuck me I want to go but I'm going to another concert that night :x

I'm gonna try and get tickets!! I wanna go!! hahah...where are you going Sarah?? :-o

I hope it isn't just raising money for SARS in Toronto, as that would be stupid. SARS is much worse in China with 321 deaths, Hong Kong with 269, Taiwan, singapore etc, the money should go there, where there is a much larger problem that tourism losses.

THEY COULDN'T GET NICKELBACK?!?!?!?! :x

 

:roll:

 

um, yeah, anyway, it's not a benefit concert, it's just a thing to try and boost the economy a little bit there, by brining in lots of people to stay overnight and spend money on hotels, restaurants, etc, not to donate money directly to anybody.

oooooooo good good

LMAO @ Nickelback!! No, they couldn't get them..they were too busy sucking! :D

what about Rush? :D

actually i just thought of a canadian band that not only doesn't suck but is one of my favorite bands: Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

 

i also thought of bachman turner overdrive, but they suck.

i know..canadian music blows...but what can you do?? i mean, we have other good things...like the Leafs :roll:

uve got pamela>!!! :P :D

yeah..pamela.. :roll:

no shania? ;)

wait a minute, neil young is canadian, and neil young kicks ass.

LAURA I KNOW!!

 

EWWW@ NICKELBACK& SIMPLE PLAN!!!!!!!!!

 

ahaha...l DONT like ONE song by either haha :shrug: so..thats my 2cents :D

celine dion is canadian!!!!! i drooooooooooooove all night...to get to you!!!!!!!!!!!

NEAR, FAR, WHEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER YOU ARE.....

I BELIEVE THAT THE HEART DOES GOOOOO ON!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna try and get tickets!! I wanna go!! hahah...where are you going Sarah?? :-o

 

 

:o l'd go with you!! :o :cry: well..l hope l get out soon

I'm gonna try and get tickets!! I wanna go!! hahah...where are you going Sarah?? :-o

 

Don't laugh but I'm going to Great Big Sea :oops: with three of my friends. Fuck them I want to go to this show! Well I think they said on the news that this concert ends at 9:30 so I could go to both... :shrug:

I must say that I think the majority of the people that will go to this show are from Toronto so I don't see how this will boost the economy that much :shrug: But there is not provincial sales tax on the tickets :D

Yeah..hahaha...Great Big Sea, eh?? INteresting.. :) See, i didn't laugh at you. :-D

yah...l heard about this thing on 102.1theedge.....cool ...lol l kinda feel bad...for those people who want to see the single artists at the ACC ahha...

Hey Vin, who's that in your avatar!! :o

who the first person??? the one drinking? or NOW?? THE FIRST GUY WAS PHIL :o:o :oops: