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Don Cherry fired by Sportsnet over 'you people' rant
The London Free Press ^ | 11/11/19 | National Post Staff & The Canadian Press

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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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; cherry; doncherry; freedomofspeech; hockey; illegals; mississauga; politicalcorrectness; socialism; toronto; totalitarianism; trudeau
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To: airborne
you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey

The invaders love what they could never build themselves.

These are low-trust, economic invaders who don't give a damn about the natives.

In their opinion, the natives are just a means to the good life. The invaders have no allegiance to the western nations, only to their bellies.

If they get the numbers to outvote the heritage population, they will, and they will convert the nation into the sh!thole from which they came.

How can they sustain that which they could never build in the first place?

See South Africa as the prime example

61 posted on 11/11/2019 2:42:28 PM PST by bkopto
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To: airborne

I remember Don Cherry playing for the Rochester Red Wings back in the mid-sixties. Gerry Cheevers was their goalie at the time. Back in the early 90’s, when I went to Canada to search for my family history on my mother’s side, I discovered that Tim Horton was a cousin of mine.


62 posted on 11/11/2019 2:45:04 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator

I can assure you, the Flyers fans were not part of that BS.


63 posted on 11/11/2019 2:47:19 PM PST by EEGator
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To: airborne
Sports brings people together — it unites us, not divides us

Bullshit

64 posted on 11/11/2019 2:57:14 PM PST by tomkat
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To: mass55th

Don’t mean to be picky but you must be referring to the Rochester Americans, the AHL team that would have been the Leafs’ farm team in that league. The Rochester Red Wings was the Triple AAA team.


65 posted on 11/11/2019 3:00:48 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t really understand the lyrics but I like the beat ;’}


66 posted on 11/11/2019 3:05:48 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Duh, you’re right. I meant the Americans (Amerks). My Dad was a Red Wings fan. Thanks for replying with the correct team. My old brain needs jogging from time to time.


67 posted on 11/11/2019 3:06:04 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: SamAdams76

Agreed, and I’ve expressed those sorts of sentiments on other hockey related threads. When helmets began to be legally phased in (through grandfathering) in 1979, the stickwork and cheap shot offences really began to increase and accelerated even more so with the instigator rule and more and more players wearing visors.

It’s interesting to consider how very wealthy ones like Bobby Hull or Frank Mahovlich or Bobby Orr or Phil Esposito or Guy Lafleur or even Ron Duguay and many others from the ‘60s to ‘80s era would be from endorsement dollars today because they were that recognizable from not wearing headgear. Even though helmets may have become that fact of life about the game by the near end of the 1970s by preventing injuries, still it looked better before with those aforementioned names and it may have been nice to have accommodated for that sort of thing.


68 posted on 11/11/2019 3:11:47 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: airborne; fanfan; GMMAC; Former Proud Canadian; USFRIENDINVICTORIA; rickmichaels; -YYZ-; ...
“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.

Geez Louise, has this idiot ever heard of the modern American NFL???

DANG!

69 posted on 11/11/2019 3:16:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Lord, I loved minor league hockey back in the ‘60’s...The ECHL (East Coast Hockey league) was fantastic...Sometimes during the fight a hockey game would break out....

Knoxville Knights vs Nashville Dixie Flyers.....


70 posted on 11/11/2019 3:18:29 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: dfwgator

Hockey is sooo boring now.Bring back the fighting!


71 posted on 11/11/2019 3:18:46 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: dfwgator

Or maybe the Hanson Brothers.


72 posted on 11/11/2019 3:19:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: 4Runner
And BTW none of them believe in using contraceptives.

If actually true, that would be an island of sanity in their sea of warped ideologies. As it is, I believe that the birth rate among even Hispanic immigrants to America is going down, in spite of their radical activists' plans to replace us. I suspect the only ones who don't even consider contraception are guess who in Minneapolis, parts of Maine, and other parts of the country.

73 posted on 11/11/2019 3:27:22 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

GMTA!


74 posted on 11/11/2019 3:28:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: bkopto; Antioch; Liz; Tennessee Nana

The best way to get “those people” to get with the program and show some allegiance — if they can even comprehend what that is — is to cut off the welfare gravy train and, in Canada, totally get government out of health care, except for local units (like the American county health departments) for the poor and public health purposes and some means of tracking disease vectors, similar to our CDC, but smaller and more limited in scope.

They will be more appreciative when, like the immigrants of old to America, they work for all that they get.


75 posted on 11/11/2019 3:34:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: airborne

The good pay a high price for their goodness. He said exactly the truth but truth died long ago in the western world.


76 posted on 11/11/2019 3:46:15 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: airborne

No mention of any patriotic Canadians coming to his defense......of course that doesn’t mean none did.


77 posted on 11/11/2019 3:49:23 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

I attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies today in a military town, with about 2000 troops in parade and an equal number of civilians. The only “people of colour” I saw were a Catholic priest from Africa, and a couple of Asian ladies who I suspect were from Korea (a country that sincerely appreciates the Canadian effort in the Korean War). Cherry is absolutely correct about the indifference of immigrants to our heritage. Between the immigrants and the spoiled brat Canadian-born youth, I weep for my country.


78 posted on 11/11/2019 4:09:07 PM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: airborne; GOPsterinMA

Lame


79 posted on 11/11/2019 4:33:41 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: dfwgator
The Soviets left the ice, because the Bullies were too physical.

You probably should be a boxing fan. Hockey is not about fighting. To the extent that the @$$hole broadcasters talk about "getting it on' they cheapen the game. The USSR team was all class. I was a big Ranger fan when they arrived on the scene. I wanted the Russians to be humiliated. But it was my team that was humiliated.

Your idea of a great hockey player is probably Dave Schultz. That brand of hockey is why my attendance at NHL games declined rapidly from 35 a year to nearly zero decades ago.

ML/NJ

80 posted on 11/11/2019 4:41:54 PM PST by ml/nj
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