David Newland

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• Commented on Urban Planner: November 18, 2009
  Thanks for the shout-out to Corktown Ukulele Jam. We gotta admit, we love all the media attention we're getting, including the recent CBC radio piece "The Gospel According to Uke" and the Toronto Star/Metro item last week. Just to let...
• Commented on They Heard The News Today, Oh Boy: Blackface Edition
  McKingford, not every comment is brilliant, but I never said they were. What I said was that not every one of them was pure drivel, a fact which I ascertained by READING the comments long before you sarcastically suggested I...
• Commented on Historicist: Opening the Gardens
  Mush March and Red Horner took the very first faceoff at Maple Leaf Gardens; incredibly, they were both alive and well to perform the ceremonial faceoff at the LAST game at MLG as well, 65 years later. Both have since...
• Commented on They Heard The News Today, Oh Boy: Blackface Edition
  But keeping people quiet isn't what public discourse is about, is it? Not every post Bird mocks is pure drivel. In fact, many contain the seeds of the arguments which make up the "other side" of the issue here. What!...
• Commented on They Heard The News Today, Oh Boy: Blackface Edition
  So being made fun of by Christopher Bird is going to prevent people being racist, while simply watching their positions erode in a meaningful argument isn't? Of course if you're chasing away everyone who'd like to explore the issue by...