Gambler sues casino over his downfall
Casino Niagara: Former high roller says
limousine sent to entice him back
A high-profile
Hamilton official who lost his job to a gambling
addiction is suing the Ontario government and Casino
Niagara for allegedly sending a limousine to take him
back to the blackjack tables following a $500,000 loss.
Gabe Macaluso, former chief executive of Copps Coliseum,
Hamilton Place and the Hamilton Convention Centre, lost
$1-million over five years while he suffered what he
calls a "secret, pathological" addition to gambling.
Mr. Macaluso joins a small but growing number of
recovered gambling addicts in Ontario and Quebec who
have filed lawsuits demanding government-run casinos
stop them from ruining their lives.
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CREDIT: Leonard Lepage, The Canadian
Press
A
lawsuit says former Copps Coliseum
boss Gabe Macaluso led a double life
as a business executive on the one
hand and a compulsive gambler at
Casino Niagara, above, on the other.
*** 'If we move out now, dealers
take over' Downtown Montreal residents
say they'll defend homes against drug trade crack cocaine sells
briskly, 24 hours a day Drug merchants moved into the Fort and
Tupper area about four months ago and run their trade openly
MONTREAL —
A woman in her 20s is standing in front of a downtown apartment
building, in tears and shaking violently.
"What time is it?" she asks, her voice quavering. Lost in another
world, she walks down a dark Tupper St. laneway looking for
somebody. She finds no one and returns.
"Oh, one more question," she says politely. "What day is it?"
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U.S. : ‘I Am Addicted to
Prescription
Pain Medication’
True Confessions:
Limbaugh built an army of admirers with his
hard-right rants. But off-air, he was a lonely
man who may have broken the law to feed his
addiction. The real Rush
Newsweek October 20th Issue - Rush
Limbaugh has always had far more followers than
friends. Bombastic and clowning on air, shy and
bumptious off it, Limbaugh could count on 20 million
“Dittoheads” and talk-radio fans to tune in five
days a week. But it’s hard to find many people who
really know him. He was a lonely object of mass
adulation, socially ill at ease, at least
occasionally depressed and, for the past several
years, living in a private hell of pain and
compulsion.
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Subject: To Mark
Hi Mr.
Elliot,
I am a frequent listener to your show on CFRB in Toronto, and I must say
that I find it thoroughly engrossing.
Last evening I heard about the tragedy of the Quebec teenager who
consumed approximately 20 shooters in about 15 seconds. I felt
heartbroken.
What really astounded me, however, is that any one could down 20
shooters, each in less than a second. That seems almost impossible.
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Puffing in
public
TORONTO - There was little concern, lots of
odd-smelling smoke and no police presence at the Hot Box
Café at the lunch hour Wednesday following the Ontario
Court of Appeal's decision to restore a federal
narcotics law making possession of marijuana illegal.
The patio out back was filled with about 15 people, most
of them smoking pot, and enjoying a languorous day in
the shaded, high-fenced, intimate haven, while
pedestrian traffic whizzed by in front at the Kensington
Market.
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High-tech
targets bad bar customers
All patrons
face personal history check at the door
Vancouver bar patrons will soon have to
produce identification and have their photograph
taken every time they enter clubs or bars connected
to an electronic network designed to red-flag
troublemakers.
Within the next six months, about 35 bars and clubs
in Vancouver are expected to be hooked into the
Barwatch system.
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BIG BROTHER
COMES TO A BAR
NEAR YOU: Step
1: A patron will
have his photo
taken and swipe
his driver's
licence through
a scanner.
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RCMP bungling sinks case against top lawyer
Vancouver — When you arrest the president of the Law
Society of British Columbia for drunk driving, you had better
make sure you have the evidence straight.
But when Kelowna RCMP arrested Howard Berge at an accident scene
last fall, they had roadside breath analysis machines that
weren't properly calibrated, and they mishandled a key piece of
evidence: They drove off with an open beer can on the roof of
the police cruiser.
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SPEAKING MORE
OPENLY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE
Hidden Cases, Including Mine
By Mark Elliot
Being a
victim of sexual abuse makes for good conversation these days, but I
cannot say I enjoy the topic. Sexual abuse is a very familiar topic for
those of us involved in alcohol and drug recovery. I have heard
estimates that 60 percent to 80 per cent of us have been sexually
abused. When I first began discussing it publicly in 1991 a secretary
asked me if such talk was "some new fad for young men". I think the look
she got from me told her what she needed to know.
It is no fad. I would prefer to have my nails pulled out with a pair of
pliers - slowly and with agony if it would mean never having to discuss
my sexual abuse again. It is a subject that’s caused me no end of pain,
confusion, alcoholism, and addiction since I was six years old. Other
victims are suing the church, the parochial schools, the government, and
others for their suffering. I have no one to sue and no desire to do it
even if I could.
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