Today's rock stars are:
David Miller, Mayor, Toronto
"Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley yesterday said cities may have to call on Miller and his "rock star" image to take the campaign across the country, city by city."
Toronto Star
The cast of Spring Awakening, Broadway Musical
"Not since "Rent" have I felt so much youthful drive and energy on Broadway, whether onstage, in the audience or even post-show at the stage door, where the cast, Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher Jr. especially, are squealed over like rock stars."
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, "'Spring Awakening' follows in footsteps of 'Rent'"
Al Gore, former Vice-President, United States
"In some ways Al Gore is the biggest rock star on the red carpet."
Chicago Sun-Times, "A spirited Hollywood weekend"
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor, New York/U.S. Presidential Candidate
"Giuliani is called an outside-the-Beltway rock star and truth teller who earned the nation's trust for his leadership of New York City's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
Boston Globe, "Document shows Romney's strategies"
Joseph Lowery, Civil rights leader/President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
""Joseph Lowery, 85, the SCLC's president emeritus who receives rock-star treatment at organization events, also remains a prominent figure."
Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Young blood at SCLC"
2 comments:
Pul-leeease -- Mayor Miller? Just because he's from our biggest city? Why is it that, more and more, Americans think all that there is to Canada is Toronto? Are all the American "rock stars" on this blog from New York City??
Just as there is more to America than its biggest city, there is more to Canada than its biggest city. What, are we, like, Guatemala or Bolivia or Ecuador, some 3rd world banana-republic consisting of 1 gigantic sprawling megalopolis surrounded by endless wilderness? Bad enough that every major American corporation puts its Canadian head office in the GTA -- even though those same American head offices are way out in the US hinterland, in places like Seattle or Dallas or LA, far from New York. If there is no need for them to all cluster in New York, why do they all cluster in Toronto?
So surely this blog could have found a Canadian rock star who is not in Toronto. What, you Americans only read the Toronto Star because you think it's the only newspaper in Canada??
How 'bout Jinny Sims, president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation, known for her pit bull-like tenacity as a union negotiator. A UBC workplace blog noted that she was "... greeted like a rock star at the rally..." in reference to one of her many appearances at union events during the teachers' union's fight against the British Columbia government.
Ms. Sims is out in the Canadian hinterland, out where the rubber hits the road -- not comfy cozy in government-created and government-protected Southern Ontario, like Miller. I say Ms. Sims deserves to be noted as a rock star on this blog, not Miller. In fact, I say: "Stick Toronto where the sun don't shine", and you can throw the rest of Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec in there too, while you're at it.
It's time we started expecting Americans to look beyond Toronto and the Southern Ontario - Southern Quebec urban corridor. It's time we insisted that America look at and know of the remaining 98% of Canada.
What, Toronto is in Canada?
I always thought is was a suburb of Detroit.
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