GREATER HAMILTON’S INDEPENDENT VOICE NOVEMBER 14 — 21, 2019 VOL. 25 NO. 43 You Like FILM: DOCTOR SLEEP • PERSPECTIVE: DON CHERRY FIRED • REAL ESTATE: COMPETING OFFERS • FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 2 NOVEMBER 14 — 20, 2019 VIEW VIEW NOVEMBER 14 — 20, 2019 3 DANCE 06 COLLAPSING THE NIGHT Photo by: Photo by: Heather Pierorazio. INSIDERyan Barret THIS ISSUE NOVEMBER 14 — 20, 2019 06 COVER DIRTY RICK FORUM FOOD 05 PERSPECTIVE Don Cherry 10 Dining Guide 18 REAL ESTATE 19 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY MOVIES 16 REVIEW Doctor Sleep DANCE 17 Movie Reviews 06 REVIEW Collapsing The Night MUSIC THEATRE 08 Hamilton Music Notes 07 REVIEW The Unexpected Guest 11 Live Music Listing ETC. 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HAMILTON, ONTARIO L8P 1K2 HAMILTON’S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE SINCE JANUARY 5, 1995, VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER USING VEGETABLE OIL-BASED INKS 4 NOVEMBER 14 — 20, 2019 VIEW [PERSPECTIVE] by MICHAEL TERRY DON CHERRY FIRED NO MATTER WHERE you stand on Don ber Cherry for all the crazy things he’s tedly, it feels like he’s doing a bit of a Cherry, it is fair to say that it will be ever said, from his backward ideas about dog-whistle here, but still, the point strange to no longer see Coach’s the game itself, to how awful it is that that people often do not wear a poppy is Corner. For good or ill, Cherry’s antics Russians can be good at hockey, and so one that may actually warrant some alongside straight man Ron McLean on. But, for some reason, Cherry had a examination. have been around for almost forty years power that seemed to massively outstrip What do we take from the fact that now and were part of the fabric of this his role. fewer people every year do so? Look nation’s culture. This is not a statement This is a man who took over an around you, and you’ll see plenty of of support for Grapes, but rather an OHL team and famously refused to Canadians not wearing a poppy. Should honest reckoning with the fact that allow European players on it. The joke we? Is it a duty to honour, remember, having this man carry on is something became how bad the team was during and show thanks? This is not an entire- that was part of Canada, whether you those years, the reality is that it was an ly unreasonable conversation, one that want to admit it or not. indicator that the man had some serious gets to the heart of memory, and how Now, Cherry is gone, having been issues. But still, he has soldiered on, our society now looks at military, war, fired after anti–immigrant comments despite an increasingly virulent brand service, etc. last week. Unsurprisingly, the issue of conservative thinking that made However, Cherry quickly tells on him- became subsumed by the greater countless people cringe. self when he continues, “You people, ‘is–there–a–cancel–culture–is–there–n There have long been calls for that come here, whatever it is. You love ot–a–cancel–culture’ mania of our Cherry’s removal, and it’s overwhelm- our milk and honey. At least you could times. The usual suspects lined up to ingly likely that once everyone realizes pay a couple of bucks for a poppy or support Cherry, claiming that he should the world will indeed go on without something like that. These guys pay for somehow face no consequences for Cherry yelling at someone for not your way of life that you enjoy in what he has said, and that once again touching out a concussion, we’ll all be Canada. These guys paid the biggest we were all victim to some incredibly better for it. price for that.” This is just so undeni- powerful PC racket that will come for Secondly, there’s this notion that ably offensive and wrong and could not you next. What’s interesting here is that firing Cherry for defending the honour have escaped this punishment. Any unlike when something like this befalls of the troops is this heinous act. But, pretense that this was about the sancti- a comedian, we don’t even have to that ignores what has so clearly gone on ty of the poppy is utterly undone by this bother dealing with the discussion of here. Firing Cherry is not close to a con- singling out. whether Cherry’s right to joke makes it troversial decision in this case. This is As he leaves, declaring that all he okay to be ‘on the edge’. No, these are not a PC mob gaining power, this is a really wants to do is honour the troops, Cherry’s thoughts, full steam ahead. brutal line of thinking that deserves no at the last, Cherry fails them. Many, And, as thoughts, spoken on national place on Canada’s national hockey many Canadians who serve will tell you television, they deserved to be broadcast. Was this precisely that they do so to honour and addressed. about the poppy? Well, looking at the protect Canada’s multicultural history There are two main areas here that clip, you can see that Cherry himself and population. Many will tell you that need some attention. First, there’s this lays bare his hatred. It’s so clear because helping to provide a place for immi- strange idea out there that Cherry he actually starts by lambasting every- grants and refugees to live and work is a should somehow have not been fired one for not wearing the poppy. “I live in huge part of serving this country. To trot because he’s been acting like this for Mississauga. Very few people wear the out this xenophobic garbage once again years now. It’s hard to imagine a more poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it. on Canadian airwaves was ultimately a ridiculous take. Indeed, we all remem- Nobody wears the poppy.” Now, admit- bridge too far. V VIEW NOVEMBER 14 — 20, 2019 5 [DANCE] by SARA CYMBALISTY [LITERATURE] by RACHEL MORE Photo by: THE FIRST THING she climbs trees Ryan Barret I want to tell you and builds a about Anne home alter. She Bokma is she’s cuts back on cool. She’s con- screen time. fident, collected, The book is smart and funny. called My Year of She was a delight Living Spiritually to interview and and it is indeed her book, My organized on Year of Living that basis; a Spiritually was a chapter for each delight to read. month. But it’s The second not exactly a thing I want to memoir and it’s tell you is that not an exercise this is a woman in journaling. who has done Nor is it a things. She’s sur- “how–to” or self Photo by: vivedHeather leavingPierorazio a help guide to deeply funda- spiritual prac- mentalist church tice. Bokma is a and coming out journalist and the other side she’s written an with a strong investigation. sense of self. As The chapters a journalist she’s read like essays, both visited a sex drawing on a club and wide range of authored a sources and con- multi–year textualizing “Spiritual but Secular” column for the United Bokma’s first–hand experiences within an Church Observer Magazine (later renamed historical and intellectual framework. I Broadview). In the writing of this book she learned a lot of fascinating things reading My swam in Walden Pond, took magic mush- Year of Living Spiritually. She delves deep into rooms, and attended Witch Camp. She led her own life story as well and the book COLLAPSING the protest against Bill Cosby’s appearance at reflects on as many experiences from her past First Ontario Concert Hall. She’s the organ- as it does on the experiences she had in izer and host of “Six–Minute Memoirs” a 2017. This is a book that can be classified as THE NIGHT quarterly series at the Staircase Theatre that philosophy, as history, as memoir, or as jour- she describes as “speed storytelling for a nalism.