McLachlan to accept award
Published Saturday November 22nd, 2008
Sarah McLachlan will be given a special award at next year's Junos honouring her humanitarian work.
McLachlan has been named as this year's recipient of the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.
McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair touring festival in 1997 to showcase and promote women in music and it also raised more than $7 million for charity after three years.
In 2000, she was also was bestowed with Canada's highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, she is the spokeswoman for the B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and is involved with youth charities to get underprivileged kids music lessons and mentorship.
The award was named in honour of broadcasting pioneer Allan Waters, the founder of CHUM Limited.
The Junos will be held on March 28, 2009.
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Jennifer Garner has won a restraining order from a man she says has been stalking her for years.
A lawyer for Garner appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday morning and won three years of protection for Garner, husband Ben Affleck and their daughter, Violet.
As first reported by TMZ, Garner petitioned for protection earlier this month from 36-year-old Steven R. Burky, who she says has been harassing her since 2002.
Garner wrote in a sworn statement that she believed Burky's "obsessive, threatening and stalking behaviour" posed a threat to her and her family.
The former star of the television series Alias, Garner has also appeared in recent films such as Juno and The Kingdom.
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Britney Spears is craving more freedom.
In an upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary, the 26-year-old pop star says: "If I wasn't under the restraints that I'm under right now, with all the lawyers and doctors and people analyzing me every day and all that kind of stuff . . . I'd feel so liberated, and feel like myself."
The 90-minute film, Britney: For the Record, airs Nov. 30 on MTV and the LOGO network.
She is shown backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards; recording her new album, Circus; dodging the paparazzi; and goofing off with her father, Jamie, who controls her personal and financial affairs.
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Guns N' Roses is spreading democracy to the world.
The protracted wait for Chinese Democracy is over, as all 14 tracks of the long-anticipated album began streaming on MySpace.com sometime Thursday.
The CD goes on sale Sunday.
Recording began in 1994, when Guns N' Roses was a sure-selling, solid hard-rock band fronted by singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash. On the new album, Rose is backed by an entirely new band.
After myriad delays and false starts, Geffen Records announced in October that the album would be released Nov. 23. Some tracks leaked online in 2002 and two were released earlier this year. One was in the Rock Band 2 video game and another in the film Body of Lies.
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