Showing posts with label Cory Monteith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cory Monteith. Show all posts
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Memorial in Vancouver. Photo by REUTERS. Click the image to go to the original Telegraph item.[/caption]
The bull-headedness of Albertans in general, and Calgarians in particular, cuts both ways; praiseworthy when Calgary Stampede organizers didn't let the recent severe flooding of their fair city stand in the way of holding their world-famous rodeo on time, "come hell, or high water.". And downright blameworthy the way Calgary Herald writer, Licia Corbella didn't let facts stand in the way of of her assertion, in a recent newspaper column, that Vancouver's permissive drug culture helped kill Glee actor, and singer, Cory Monteith. On July 13, 2013, the 31-year-old Calgary-born actor was found dead in his hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in downtown Vancouver. On July 15, the B.C. Coroner’s autopsy report stated Monteith died from "a mixed drug toxicity" consisting of heroin and alcohol. Monteith had reportedly struggled with addiction for a decade.
In a Friday, July 19 column in the Calgary Herald -- widely syndicated --, Licia Corbella bluntly asserted the actor got the drugs from Insite, the supervised, safe injection site, located in the Downtown Eastside, about 1.4 km from Monteith's hotel, as the crow flies.
Memorial in Vancouver. Photo by REUTERS. Click the image to go to the original Telegraph item.[/caption]The bull-headedness of Albertans in general, and Calgarians in particular, cuts both ways; praiseworthy when Calgary Stampede organizers didn't let the recent severe flooding of their fair city stand in the way of holding their world-famous rodeo on time, "come hell, or high water.". And downright blameworthy the way Calgary Herald writer, Licia Corbella didn't let facts stand in the way of of her assertion, in a recent newspaper column, that Vancouver's permissive drug culture helped kill Glee actor, and singer, Cory Monteith. On July 13, 2013, the 31-year-old Calgary-born actor was found dead in his hotel room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in downtown Vancouver. On July 15, the B.C. Coroner’s autopsy report stated Monteith died from "a mixed drug toxicity" consisting of heroin and alcohol. Monteith had reportedly struggled with addiction for a decade.
In a Friday, July 19 column in the Calgary Herald -- widely syndicated --, Licia Corbella bluntly asserted the actor got the drugs from Insite, the supervised, safe injection site, located in the Downtown Eastside, about 1.4 km from Monteith's hotel, as the crow flies.
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