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Hummingbird Centre De-Hummed, Harper Promises No Vote On Afghanistan, and Britney’s Comeback Not All That

By Christopher Bird

hummingbird_news.jpgAs of Friday, it’s no longer the Hummingbird Centre, but instead the Sony Centre. You know what? All performing arts venues should be renamed so that they sound like something you would find at your local mall. It gives the whole experience more delicious corporate flavour.
Stephen Harper says there will be no vote on the mission in Afghanistan anytime soon unless it is to “finish the job.” And if that sounded like, “Hey, I dare you guys to give me a no-confidence vote,” it’s probably just his accent or something.
Britney Spears’ big return performance ends up being a big joke instead. Oh, the schadenfraude. It is so very, very wonderful.
Porter Airlines to expand. Turns out that massive government subsidies really help a business be profitable!
And finally, the Jays couldn’t quite beat the Devil Rays last night.
Photo by angela thrust from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Comments

  • guest

    Chris — “Hummingbird” was also a corporate sponsor, just one with a slightly more palatable name.
    http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/

  • dowlingm

    If David Miller hadn’t “killed the bridge for a toonie” the Feds wouldn’t have had to pay a 35 million dollar settlement.

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    Just because that building has never not had a corporate name doesn’t make it its latest rebranding any less offensive.

  • rek

    Wasn’t Harper the guy who promised all manner of free votes in parliament to counter the ‘democratic deficit’ of the previous administration?

  • The Explosively Talented Christopher Bird

    I was well aware that the Hummingbird Centre was a corp name as well. Corporate names are always pathetic regardless; it’s just that the Sony Centre is especially bad.

  • Ben

    re: Britney Spears’ big return.
    I saw a clip of this on the new last night. I would just like to say that the news anchor was wrong, she does not look fat. She’s not a teenager anymore; get over it.
    p.s. I don’t really think this is “news,” and I don’t think I should be commenting on it.

  • WannaBinToranna

    isn’t the world just plain tiredof Britney/Paris/Nicole/Lindsay yet?
    Re: Corporate naming…I’m waiting for the Mountain Dew/Sobe/Taco Bell Cemetery or something stupid like that.
    Soon, life will be “Jennifer Government” anyway.

  • AdamSchwabe

    I actually don’t find the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (the full name) as unpalatable as it could have been had they simply named it The Sony Centre, as Rogers did with the SkyDome.

  • Chester Pape

    You guys need to look up “subsidy” in the dictionary, while you’re there might as well look up a few other words like “libel” and maybe do a little reading up on the difference between news and opinion and how actual journalists, rather than pretend ones generally structure things to keep the two separate.

  • Marc Lostracco

    How is the author’s commentary on the news libelous? That’s ridiculous.

  • x_the_x

    Suggesting that the airline received “massive government subsidies” is untrue. As is the statement that the airline is profitable.

  • guest
  • guest

    Because the Rogers Centre for the Field-Based Sports is better?