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Canadians Have Gone PC Insane

Our neighbors to the North have gone completely, insanely, madly, Barking-Moonbat CRAZY!

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Montreal - Canadian Miss Universe Natalie Glebova was forced to take off her official sash at a local festival celebrating Thailand when Toronto authorities invoked a law against sexual stereotyping.

The winner of the international beauty competition held in Bangkok in May, Glebova was to open the festival last weekend sporting her official beauty queen’s regalia.

However, city employees invoked a regulation against activities which degrade men and women through sexual stereotypes or exploit their bodies to attract attention.

Bowing to the local law, the 23 year old blue-eyed brunette was made to remove her “Miss Universe” sash, though not without complaint.

“I definitely don’t think that the Miss Universe title is any kind of stereotype or sexual stereotype,” said Russian-born Glebova, a graduate of Toronto’s Ryerson University.

Officials of the Miss Universe organisation were also unhappy.

“It’s a strict reading of the by-laws,” Paula Shugart, president of the organisation, said.

“According to those conditions, a beauty contest cannot even be held in Toronto”, Shugart said.

The Mayor of Toronto later apologized ....

Toronto Mayor David Miller has issued an apology to Miss Universe after the city barred her from opening a festival on municipal property over concerns about sexual stereotyping.

“It’s unfortunate and silly,” said Miller. “It won’t happen again.”

Natalie Glebova was set to open a festival last weekend at Nathan Phillips Square in front of City Hall, but municipal officials told organizers that the recently crowned Torontonian couldn’t perform that duty if she wore her sash or her tiara, or if she was introduced by her title.

They said beauty pageants and beauty queens were banned from the square by a bylaw that prohibits activities deemed to be degrading to men or women through sexual stereotyping.

Miller said it was all a mistake and an overreaction on someone’s part.

“[It’s] certainly not the way I read the bylaw,” he said. “I don’t think it’s appropriate. She should have been allowed to come to City Hall.”


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