One minute you have Ron “the Snake” MacLean rambling on about his sister’s kid in Oakville marrying a deli owner who used to be an Olympic-level curler, who makes the best pancakes he’s ever had.
The next minute you have Jennifer Botterill campaigning to make face washes a suspendible offense and crying about violent actions performed in an inherently violent sport in which everyone who plays does so by their own volition.
Finally, no Social Justice Night in Canada would be complete without Kelly Hrudey trying to score some leftist points by going on and on about his or a player’s “mental health”.
HNIC was an institution—something Canadians once considered a highlight of their week. It introduced a lot of Americans to Canadian hockey culture from afar. It had a captive audience during the first intermission, when one of the most entertaining figures in NHL history, Don “Grapes” Cherry, would shoot straight from the hip with amazing and insightful hockey analysis that has not since been matched.
Today, that same program stands as a source of embarrassment for the same fans that once made it the institution it was.
The worst part is that it doesn’t have to be this way. HNIC could be resurrected by simply hiring the correct analysts for their audience—a task so easy that a child could do it.
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Seems to be a pattern with Mark Carney the economist.
Bank of Canada Governor ➡️ Recession
Bank of England Governor ➡️ Recession
Prime Minister of Canada ➡️ Recession
Whoopi Goldberg’s comments reveal everything wrong with identity politics.
I didn’t marry my wife because she’s white.
She didn’t marry me because I’m Black.
We got married because we share the same values, the same faith, and the same vision for raising a family.
At no point did marrying a white woman make me less Black.
At no point did marrying a Black man make my wife less white.
What it made us was a family.
The people obsessed with race can’t understand that most Americans don’t choose friends, spouses, or family based on skin color. We choose them based on character, values, and love.
The civil rights movement wasn’t about putting race at the center of everything. It was about moving beyond it.
The bodycam footage of Henry Nowak has just been released.
An 18-year-old who was stabbed FIVE TIMES called the police for help.
His attacker told officers Henry was a racist.
So they handcuffed the victim.
Henry told them over and over:
"I've been stabbed."
"I can't breathe."
"Please brother, I can't breathe."
An officer responded: "You've been stabbed, mate? I don't think you have."
Henry died in handcuffs.
The mainstream media has said NOTHING.
Where is the same outrage from when George Floyd died?
Watch this footage. Share it everywhere.
Pray for Henry’s family.
While David Eby tries to label me, our record shows something very different.
I served on the federal National Shipbuilding Procurement Ministerial Committee, where we worked to expand Canadian shipbuilding and create jobs here at home.
Under David Eby and the NDP, over a billion dollars in BC Ferries shipbuilding contracts were awarded to foreign shipyards overseas, sending jobs and economic benefits out of British Columbia.
They can keep the labels. I’ll focus on results.
If I was looking to rebuild a franchise, the first place I'd look for a POHO, GM and head coach is the worst team in the league.
Certainly, the worst place team in the league would have the best managerial candidates.