“Cancel Culture”

Are we still allowed to state these facts?

Anouk Aimee, the exquisite star of the classic 1966 French film A Man and a Woman, passed away on June 18, 2024. She was 92. Willie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid,” who hit 52 home runs in the 1965 season, also passed away on June 18, 2024. He was 93.

I joked to a friend, “Death comes in threes. Now another long-lived celebrity from the 60s must die.”

A trans and non-binary advocacy group failed to cancel the annual Reclaiming Canada conference in Victoria, but prompted a 50K security cost for organizers.

Canada is way behind normal countries in putting these cross-dressers in their place.

A theatre in Massachusetts has apologised for “distressing and offensive” remarks made by Richard Dreyfuss that triggered a mass walkout before a screening of Jaws.

Dreyfuss, 76, appeared at The Cabot in the town of Beverly on Saturday for what was billed as “an intimate evening” with the Oscar-winning actor.

A British Columbia First Nation is calling for the suspension and removal of an RCMP officer from Bella Bella over social media posts he made before joining the Mounties.

Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says in a letter to the Bella Bella detachment of the RCMP that the officer posted “racist text and images.”

Every year, the city of Orléans celebrates with pomp and circumstance the liberation of the city from the English yoke during the Hundred Years’ War, thanks to the victorious intervention of Saint Joan of Arc at the head of the French armies. For the occasion, a young girl from the town lends her features to the valiant fighter and is flanked by two young boys as her pages. This year, the town rejected one of the two selected candidates on the grounds that he had frequented the Action Française movement and espoused values “contrary to the Republic”. A kind of paradox: after all, didn’t Jeanne herself fight for her God and her king?

Eminent philosophers and colleagues of a professor who has become embroiled in a race row have criticised attempts to remove him from the University of Cambridge.

Nathan Cofnas, a researcher in philosophy, is about to be expelled from Emmanuel College and is being investigated by the philosophy faculty and the Leverhulme Trust, which funded him.

He wrote a blog linking race to academic ability and suggested that in a true meritocracy black people would excel only in sports and entertainment.

John Cleese is the master of both silly walks and sublime comedy takes.

The Monty Python veteran is as feisty as ever at 84, slashing those attempting to crush comedy that breaks any kind of so-called rule.

Recently, Governor General Mary Simon came under fire for her decision to host an online harm symposium last weekend. Not because the concept is bad, not because it is inappropriate for the Governor General to use her office to highlight an ongoing issue with internet harassment, no. She came under fire for the fact that her office was doing so in support of Liberal party legislation with Justice Minister Arif Virani, who introduced the bill, in attendance. It is a pretty clear violation of the non-partisan role the Governor General is expected and constitutionally obligated to perform.