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Every single one of us are separated from people we love.”He also said Canadians’ “hearts are broken for the people of Nova Scotia,” which is reeling from a recent shooting rampage.Singer Anne Murray later addressed the province she calls home.“To the family, friends and communities of those affected, we want you to know that we are grieving with you and we send prayers for courage and strength as you try to make sense of this horrific tragedy,” Murray said before introducing Voices Rock Medicine, a choir of female physicians.A staggering amount of celebrities were a part of the special, encouraging Canadians to stay home, stay strong, and support front-line workers as well as Food Banks Canada.Front-line workers and Canadians who have survived coronavirus also appeared to tell their stories.Pop superstar Celine Dion addressed viewers in French and English, praising the “heroes out there around the world who are going to work every single day.”Other artists who either performed or spoke included Michael Bublé with the Barenaked Ladies, Geddy Lee, Robbie Robertson, Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, David Foster, Alessia Cara, Tom Cochrane, Jann Arden, Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Justin Bieber, and Shania Twain, who started off an acoustic version of her hit “Up!” with the words “Coronavirus bugging me.”Comedy stars Ryan Reynolds, Mike Myers, Howie Mandel, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler provided moments of levity.“It’s Sunday night and today marks the 10-year anniversary of the quarantine we’ve been on for the last six weeks,” said Reynolds.“I’m wearing a Mountie hat not only because I’m proud of Canada, but because I have a quarantine haircut that looks like it was done with a knife and fork,” said Myers.Arnett declared he hasn’t “taken a shower in about a month, not that that matters,” to which Poehler — his ex who was in the same room — quipped: “But actually it kind of does, Will.”Other celebrities included Margaret Atwood, Geddy Lee, Daniel and Eugene Levy, and Catherine O’Hara.Bieber, Buble, Avril Lavigne and several other musicians also collaborated on a rendition of “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers, who died last month.Toronto-raised actor-musician Kiefer Sutherland mentioned his late grandfather Tommy Douglas, who was known as the founder of medicare, in his salute to front-line health-care workers.Toronto rapper Drake — appearing after a brief comment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — closed out the show by sending a message of encouragement for those struggling.“I actually ended up in a hospital the other day due to a foot injury, and just to see the morale, the smiles, the high spirits on everyone’s face that I got to encounter in that situation despite everything going on,” he said.“It’s just incredible to see people who have to leave their families every day and go to work amidst this crisis, as dangerous as this is, just really the glue holding us all together.
“And, I’ll tell you, now more than ever, we’ve banded together to provide that support for Canadians in need.”With the “overarching theme” of the show being “hope and optimism” Little said she wants Canadian viewers to “watch with awareness,” while, hopefully, Bublé said he feels a “duty and responsibility” to help out in Sunday’s relief efforts.“It’s funny, my wife will say to me … ‘Mike, when does it end?’ and I wish there was some magic answer. We are sending our love and prayers." Republication or distribution of this content is
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At the time, he felt he’d seen Canadian artists and athletes “put on one of the greatest Olympics that anyone had ever seen.”“Ten years ago, we watched our country come together — all our artists, our athletes … We pulled together as a country and we blew the world away. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution
It begins at 6:30 p.m., with a roster of performers and testimonial givers too vast to list here. Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old What does this mean for Canadian children?Trump says person shot by law enforcement outside gates of White House, other details unknownCity of Calgary proposes Black Lives Matter mural, will replace long-standing downtown painting The Canadian Press Staff. The Stronger Together Concert line-up is in, and it features about every Canadian celebrity you had a poster of taped to your wall during high school.
Such was the message of Sunday's "Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble," a star-studded show of support for those on the front lines in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Scroll down to see the amazing performances and appearances viewers enjoyed on Sunday: Canada, weâre still busy creating the magazine you know and love, to spread positivity and provide some entertainment as a gentle reprieve from all the hard news. Countless Canadian musicians harmonized for an emotional version of the classic song. “Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble” is a multi-platform event centred around a $150-million campaign to provide support to Food Banks Canada.
They’re each proud to call Canada their ‘home-and-native’ land while also representing a handful of the more than 70 A-list artists, actors, and activists who’ll be live-streaming Sunday night from their respective remote locations in support of Canada’s food banks and its front-line workers battling the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Canada’s upcoming similar-themed (and streamed) show will include a creative mix of music and messages of hope and resilience from multiple personalities—including the ‘B’ boys mentioned above — as well as digital pop-ins from Ryan Reynolds, Amy Poehler, Eric McCormack, Jason Priestley, Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, Mike Myers, David Foster, Kiefer Sutherland, Céline Dion, Howie Mandel, Shania Twain, and the cast of Sunday’s show will mark a ‘Part Deux’ performance for Grammy-Award winning crooner Michael Bublé, who also had While he affirms that he and his wife Luisana Lopilato have been trying “to take more time to pray” — and watch less news —”we try to really just take it one day at a time, and that’s it.”“We’re worried for our moms and dads and people that are vulnerable in our family.