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A Canadian designer is defending a satirical ad featuring a fictional, semi-nude Quebec terrorist group after a national sporting goods retailer pulled his outerwear brand from its shelves over the “incredibly offensive” video. “I regret losing those sales, but I don’t regret what I did,” Moose Knuckles founder Will Poho said. “I do not want to be stifled by a very small minority.” The ad shows a made-up paramilitary army called the Fédération unilatérale du Québec (FUQ) — a parody of the separatist group Front de libération du Québec (FLQ).

Prince Charles' stepdaughter Laura Parker Bowles, an art gallery manager, has married a former underwear model. Laura Parker Bowles, the 27-year-old daughter of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, married Harry Lopes, who modeled for Calvin Klein, at a private ceremony Saturday. Camilla attended the ceremony, along with Charles and his sons, Princes William and Harry. It was held in Wiltshire, about 120 miles southwest of London.