Thanks to Famine for submitting this article on Toronto embarrassing itself again.
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Those of us old enough to care will remember a misguided then Mayor Barbara Hall shunning the now famous music group by disallowing their participation in some New Year's festivities a while back. I suspect, though I'd have to do some research, it was due to this same well-intentioned but obviously ignorantly followed bylaw. Which group was banned you ask?
The Barenaked Ladies. The freaking BNL folks! (Note: They snubbed her back after totally blowing up worldwide when they chose a smaller festival in Scarborough over some key to the city thing that Hall suggested.)
So, if we are to understand that the Miss Universe denigrates women, why allow any sort of beauty pageant to be held within the city limits, much less in Canada at all? Why allow CHIN's annual swimsuit competition? Why allow music acts with scantily clad dancers to perform on stage in Toronto? Why allow the Man Show, BET and Much videos? Where does it end?
this is just plain stupid and I am starting to think I am sorry I ever voted for David Miller because he seems to be a very disconnected mayor unless it is a big ticket issue. Well Mr. Miller, if you intend to allow this type of censorship, it will become a big ticket issue as your people embarrass the city on a global scale.
WTF indeed!!
(Note: The editor thinks Ms. Universe is superhot and is a bonus being from Toronto. Superhot in an intelligence sort of fashion, of course.)
CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Queen meets Dukes of Duh!
3 comments:
Miller has apologized for the unfortunate interpretation of a bylaw he didn't realise was on the books.
Famine
Does that mean she can proudly stand in Nathan Philips Square now?
What a bunch of absolute bullshit.
After all the kufuffle (kafuffle?) that has gone on over the absolute asinine adverts. promoting tourism in Toronto (with poor grammar, stupid sayings and ridiculous imagery), you'd think Toronto would jump on the chance to promote the fact that Miss Universe is from here and is, in fact, a Russian immigrant who came with her family to Canada to find a better life and has, in fact, just done that??
F*cking idiots. All of 'em.
I heard about Miller's apology. A buck short and a week late. He comes off as a total turd on this one, I'm afraid. And the city as a whole gets a bum rap for this absurdity.
Nope, we must spend our money on poorly built garbage cans and touristy poles on Yonge Street. THAT makes a whole lot more sense than attracting a nation of tourists to come see where one of there own made it good.
Today's Idiot for sure.
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