Don Cherry needs to own up to his mistake, apologize

This isn’t about limiting the free speech of Donald S. Cherry. Instead it is about calling out a wrong. One last chance: practice what you preach, Don, 'be a man.'

Don Cherry, pictured right with Ron MacLean, knows he still has an audience who buy the nonsense he is selling and who will view him as some sort of a hero for not being cowered into an apology. That is a shame, because peddling ignorance and inflaming divisions at a time when this country is anxious is not what real Canadians icons should do, writes Tim Powers. Photograph courtesy of Charles LeBlanc's Flickr

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

November 13, 2019

OTTAWA—Don Cherry, in some quarters a Canadian icon, is now gone from Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada. The mouth that roared fell on Remembrance Day after nearly four decades on air. He took himself out by making ill-considered and inappropriate comments about people not...

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