“The most historic sporting event of all time”?
The NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup and the World Cup are all going on right now. This is maybe the fourth biggest sporting event of the weekend.
Keynote speaker at the Canadian Conservative conference in 2023, and hosted Pierre Poilievre's London trip three months ago
Longtime fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs might recognize this sort of hypothetical from Dave Nonis vs. a potato. It’s never good when the potato comes out on top.
This is true, and it’s worth asking why virtually every government on earth consistently ignores better, cheaper, more humane solutions to these problems in favour of being “tough on crime”.
Human nature certainly plays a role; people whose salary depends on the status quo surely do as well.
Hockey Night in Canada has been a rental space for some time, but it was still Hockey Night in Canada in terms of reach, and for the most part, in tone. The death of HNIC was inevitable as soon as the big telecoms going into sports broadcasting: the money was too big. But it's a true national shame.
The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.
Kevin M. Kruse
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
Lauren Dobson-Hughes
Bruce Arthur
TLDR: it’s all bullshit.
However, there are no rules, and the bullshit enriches oligarchs and entertains their chud fanboys, so it will persist until the guillotines are built.
Of course it does, why wouldn't it? The alternative is that rich people stop getting richer, a scenario that has been effectively engineered to never happen again (until it does, but I doubt that will happen in my lifetime).
