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Posted on 11/11/2019 12:38:58 PM PST by airborne
Sportsnet has confirmed that Don Cherry has been fired from Hockey Night in Canada over recent remarks that caused uproar.
Cherry, 85, had singled out new immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., where he lives, for not honouring Canada’s veterans and dead soldiers.
“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said Saturday night. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”
In a statement issued on Twitter Monday afternoon, Sportsnet said that after discussions with Cherry, it had been decided that it was “the right time” for him to step down immediately. Sportsnet said Cherry had made divisive remarks that do not fit with its values.
“Sports brings people together — it unites us, not divides us,” the statement from Bart Yabsley, Sportsnet president, said. “Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night’s broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down.
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The Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington was the first to report the news on Monday, indicating he had been told by Cherry that he had been fired. Cherry is reported to have told Warmington that he was hurt to be fired today of all days, given it is Remembrance Day.
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Grapes still has his fastball.
Cherry will be fine but it sucks all the same.
Cherry, 85.
Fired? How will he ever survive?
So in Canada, a guy gets to keep his job for wearing black face and another loses his job for standing up for Veterans?
Cherry is pretty much Too Old To Give a ____, but now.
Telling the truth ... we can't have that.
After the Raptors won the NBA title, I suspect you’ll start hearing more and more derision of Hockey in Canada as the sport of “White, Rednecks”.
Canada and its sports media are drowning in the PC toilet.
Gertzky for Prime Minister.
Make Hockey Great Again.
I’m eligible for full SS early next year. I can live on it alone - comfortably.
I’m remembering high school. I have senior-itis as well.
Cherry has a valid point on “his” immigrants, In Canada, most are from the turd islamic world. We are the crusaders with a crusader history of which they have no part of, no understanding, only animosity of the crusader/ infidel. They are not here to integrate nor learn about our culture.
December 14.... In full. Bang.
I’ll double dip a while.
Heaven forbid you actually expect basic CIVICS from immigrants...
I watched a lot of hockey in the 1970s.
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Hockey was much better when it divided people, not united them!
December 14.... In full. Bang.
I’ll double dip a while.
And Saturday night hockey will suck even more.
They tried this once before few years back.
Guess who was Back? However, this time it is different, it’s the poor emigrants...
Sick, just sick.
The best was when the Broad Street Bullies played the Red Army team.
The Soviets left the ice, because the Bullies were too physical. The Philly Crowd started chanting...”They’re Going Home!”
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